Well, hello, my friends, and welcome to an Easter Monday morning version of Live Inspired podcast with John O'Leary.

By now, you know that we create these to give you a short burst of inspiration to step into this week.

And I think what better time to have a little bit of inspiration than with the headwind and changes and challenges that we all face collectively and individually during

this wild time of COVID-19. So I'm going to begin this one with a question my daughter asked and then

a story that I think will relate not only well to grace, but also to each of us as we journey into

this Monday and into this week. So here's the question. What if we have to do this

next year too? See, my daughter Grace asked this question just last week after being informed

that the rest of her school year had been canceled. Although having her dad around all the time

for the past month has been great.

She misses her teachers. She misses playing with her friends. And she misses living her old life.

She also feels as if every single day she's living right about now feels about the same as every single day she lived into this last one.

And she's far from being alone in that.

Numerous professional colleagues, personal friends, and family members have referred to the past

several weeks as if they were stuck in the movie Groundhog Day.

In the movie, a cynical, insolent, self-centered weatherman

named Phil Connors, played perfectly, by the way, by Bill Murray, is doomed to repeat the same

day of his life again and again. Day after day, week after week, the arrogant reporter awakes in Ponsotagie, Pennsylvania,

sees the same people and has no way to escape the profound sense of monotony.

He feels isolated.

He feels lost.

He feels totally hopeless.

With so many restrictions on where he can go, who he can see, and what he can do,

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