Well, hello, my friends, and welcome to the Live Inspired podcast Monday Morning Moments with John O'Leary.

Well, family, some of you know this, but 10 years ago this week,

On Fire, the book was released. When the book first went into the world, I wasn't planning on it

landing as a bestseller. I wasn't planning on it being translated into a dozen languages.

I wasn't planning on it becoming the inspiration for a future film.

Trust me.

The idea was far more simple.

Honor the people who save my life and remind others that they have the power to change the lives of others too.

That's honor the people who save my life and remind others, our future readers,

that they have the power to positively change the lives of others too.

That's the goal.

I wanted to thank my siblings in this book, who ran toward their burning brother and risked their lives for mine.

I wanted to celebrate my incredible parents who chose radical love through two house fires,

decades of Parkinson's disease, and more challenges than most families have ever faced,

and yet they chose love.

I wanted to thank the mercy caregivers who rallied around a little

boy so faithfully that the impossible became reality. And I wanted to celebrate the teachers and

the coaches, the friends, the neighbors, the total strangers who showed up with encouragement

and prayer and love and carried hope for me when I had very little for my own.

And sharing their stories in the book, my hope was simple to remind readers that they too

could become part of someone else's miracle. That's the goal. Always. You can become part

of someone else's miracle. What made the heroes in the book so remarkable and so ultimately memorable

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