Believe Again (Monday Moment ep. 553)

Live Inspired Podcast with John O'Leary

John O'Leary

Self-improvement, Bestsellingauthor, Education, Dailyinspiration, Society & Culture, Liveinspired, Johnoleary, Inspiration, Joebuck, Inspiredliving, Onfire, Relationships

4.9 • 672 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Growing up, my dream was clear. With absolute confidence, I not only knew that I’d play professional baseball, but that I’d play for my hometown St. Louis Cardinals. It was a certainty.

Until that dream, and the inevitability of obtaining it, was extinguished upon my waking up from one of more than a dozen surgeries after being burned at age nine. With great sadness, my dad shared that during the surgery the doctors were forced to amputate my fingers in order to save my life.

As we journey professionally and personally, we will never understand the miracle of life fully.

Until we allow the unexpected to happen.

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0:00.0	Hello, my friends, and welcome to the Live Inspired podcast Monday morning moments with John O'Leary.
0:18.8	I record these so you and I can begin our days and our weeks in awe and on fire with a
0:24.9	burst of inspiration and we frequently begin these either with a question or a quote. Today is going to be
0:32.0	a quote for my buddy Paulo Coelho. Here we go. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
0:43.0	Growing up, my dream was clear.
0:45.7	With absolute confidence, I not only knew that I would play professional baseball,
0:49.7	but I knew that I would play it for my hometown St. Louis Cardinals.
0:56.3	It was a certainty. This thing was already done until that dream and the inevitability of obtaining it was extinguished upon my waking
1:05.6	up from more than a couple dozen surgeries after being burned at the age of nine. This time with great sadness, my dad shared with me the surgery.
1:13.6	The doctors were forced to amputate my fingers in order to save my life.
1:19.8	A new certainty crept into my mind.
1:22.9	My life was over.
1:24.0	You ever had that thought?
1:25.2	My life was over.
1:27.0	I was furious with my dad and I began to cry.
1:29.9	I wept knowing that no girl would ever want to hold my hand. Why would she? I was angry because I knew
1:36.5	I would never be able to write again. How could I? Which meant I would never go back to school or
1:41.2	graduate or get a job. And then I wept because, and this is all true story, I knew that the achievement of my dream,
1:49.1	the certain thing that was going to happen in my life, a playing baseball, was now taken away
1:54.8	from me.
1:56.3	The journey from that burn center into recovery was filled with incredible adversity.
2:02.2	Yet overflowing was also, you ready for this?
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