From an early age, two things were obvious about the Fox News personality: She loved God and she followed politics religiously. Growing up, most of Perino's Sundays were occupied by those twin passions.

"My sister always wanted to go to the late service, because she wanted to sleep," Perino recalled during an interview with Faithwire. "I always wanted to go to the early service because that meant we could do that, and Sunday school, and still get home in time for ‘Meet the Press.'"

An interest in current events was nurtured by Perino's father. In third grade, her dad started a tradition, requiring the now-46-year-old author and commentator to read the local newspapers, choose two articles and discuss each of them with him before dinnertime.

Life got busier and Perino's interests widened, but she continued that tradition with her dad. Over the years, they'd dog-ear articles they wanted the other to read. They still share stories with each other today.

That, however, is not the only thing Perino's parents passed down to their daughters. They also instilled within Perino a rich faith tradition that has carried her through life's valleys and mountaintops.

As a graduate student in Illinois, life was difficult, though for no apparent reason, by Perino's own admission. She was just in a funk.

"I just wasn't happy," she recalled. "As humans, we try to fix everything ourselves. And when I remembered to surrender and to pray and turn my worry over to a Higher Power, that's when I felt so much better."

Perino eventually carried that mantra to Washington, DC, from positions in lawmakers' offices all the way to the press secretary's podium in the White House briefing room.

In fact, it was when she was working for the former Republican president that her faith began to flourish once again... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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