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

I record these each week so that you and I can begin our weeks in awe and on on fire with a burst of

inspiration.

Turns out some stories don't ask politely for your attention.

Some stories demand it.

And Rhonda Bear's story is one of those types of stories.

Like so many who have lived inspired lives, her story does not begin with comfort or with clarity

or with ease.

No, her story begins in brokenness, begins in chaos, in a childhood marked by dysfunction

and uncertainty.

By the age of 12, Rhonda was already searching for anything, anything

that might make her feel whole and enough and acceptable. That search led her down a long

and painful road of addiction, of mistakes, of incarceration, of fear, of shame. For years,

Rana lived on the wrong side of the statistics where people don't recover.

Families don't heal and cycles don't break.

Through mistakes that she made, she spent 19 months in prison, separated from her children,

unsure if she would ever be more than the worst

decision she'd made in her life. She was afraid. She was exhausted. And yet, deep within her,

an ember of hope still burned. When Rhonda was released, she fixed her sights on just one thing,

being present for her kids. She fixed her sights on just one thing, being present for her kids.

She committed herself to recovery slowly and perfectly, but faithfully.

She faced her addiction.

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