Jenna Bush Hager revealed that her father, the 43rd president of the United States, George W. Bush, texts her a Bible verse every morning.
Jenna Bush Hager
Jenna Bush Hager is a former U.S. official’s daughter. Laura Bush, the first lady, and President George W. Bush. She married Henry Hager in 2008. She gave birth to a daughter named Margaret Laura “Mila” Hager on April 13, 2013. Poppy Louise Hager, her second child, was born on August 13, 2015. On August 2, 2019, Henry Harold “Hal” Hager, the couple’s first child, was born.
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Jenna Bush Hager serves as an editor-at-large for Southern Living magazine and co-hosts NBC’s TODAY with Hoda & Jenna. And she continues to work with UNICEF and is currently the leader of its Next Generation initiative, which aims to lower the number of child fatalities globally.
Jenna discusses how faith is crucial to her connection with her father, George W. Bush. “I wake up every morning to a text from my dad that’s a different Bible verse.”
Bible Verses
When her father sends her verses, the 41-year-old mother of three occasionally shares them with others, including her coworkers. Furthermore, her co-worker, Hoda Kotb, claimed that during a time when she most needed it, each of her co-hosts “have each texted me something full of faith and meaning at a time when I needed it the most.”
“I actually wake up every morning to a text from my dad that’s a different Bible verse,” Jenna revealed. “I wasn’t included at the beginning. It started when my sister had a bad breakup and my dad just started texting her every morning. And it was something really small but something very steady that she’d look up to.”
Former President’s Spiritual Journey
Jenna revealed that faith in God was important to them. On one account, the former president gave credit to Billy Graham for “changing his life.”
“God’s work within me began in earnest with Billy’s outreach,” Bush said. “His care and his teachings were the real beginning of my faith walk—and the start of the end of my drinking. I couldn’t have given up alcohol on my own. But in 1986, at 40, I finally found the strength to quit. That strength came from love I had felt from my earliest days and from faith I didn’t fully discover until my later years.”
Header Image: Jenna Bush Hager and President Bush visit with school children at GHESKIO [Bush Center]. Website, 10 August 2010, https://www.bushcenter.org/about-us/the-bush-family/jenna-hager
Reference: Church Leaders, TODAY, Bush Center
