Can We Get Back to Living? (Monday Moment ep. 513)

Live Inspired Podcast with John O'Leary

John O'Leary

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🗓️ 7 November 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

With the constant pace of change, dramatic shifts societally and significant challenges we face both locally and globally, a perspective of navigating these difficult days thoughtfully is critically important. Few offer a better example of serving others, leading effectively and living well than my grandfather.

Grandpa was my hero growing up. Although he became a successful attorney, the lessons he learned growing up on a farm, enduring the Great Depression, and fighting for his country in World War II kept him humble, generous and shaped his worldview.

Today, as you scroll through social media or watch mainstream media, you’ll likely be repulsed to imagine that half your neighbors could feel differently about the issues you passionately support in tomorrow's midterm election. You’ll be stunned to imagine living in a country so different than you. You’ll be told by the channels you tune into that the very life of the country hangs in the balance.

But even if we adamantly disagree with how he voted, I think my stoic, wise and strongly opinionated grandfather points us not only to a different, more idyllic time, but to a future we must choose together. His example is of a time when opinions were held so firmly that we actually had the fortitude to visit with, live with and even love those who held opinions different than ours.

My friends, I encourage you to deeply care about issues, to have strongly held and well-informed opinions and to vote in elections. But I also encourage you to turn off the news channels, stop the scrolling, and get back to living together.

It served the greatest generation well. It will serve this next greatest generation, too.

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0:00.0	Well, hello, my friends, and welcome to the Live Inspired podcast Monday morning moments with John O'Leary.
0:17.1	I record these so you and I can begin our days and our midterm election weeks in awe and on fire with a burst of inspiration.
0:26.5	So here we go.
0:27.6	With the constant pace of change, dramatic shifts societally and significant challenges we face both locally and globally.
0:34.6	A perspective of navigating these difficult days thoughtfully is critically important.
0:41.9	I think few offer a better example of serving others, leading effectively, and living well
0:47.5	than my grandfather. Grandpa was my hero growing up. Although he became a successful attorney, the lessons he learned
0:56.3	grown up on a farm, enduring the Great Depression, and fighting for his country in World War II
1:01.5	kept him humble and generous and certainly shaped his worldview. Although he sat in the first row
1:08.7	of church and his voice echoed loudly as he's saying.
1:12.9	The language he used on the golf course after hitting a bad shot would make a seasoned sailor blush,
1:20.8	although he was totally devoted to his sweet wife, Caddy, and adored his two girls, Janie and Susan,
1:29.8	and was dedicated professionally as an attorney. Every single night after work, he visited his parents on the way home. Yes, my grandfather
1:37.9	was busy, but he wanted to make sure that his aging parents were all right, that they had everything
1:43.5	that they needed, and that
1:45.1	they knew before they went to bed that night that he loved them sincerely. And although he was an
1:51.2	incredibly kind man, occasionally, occasionally a faint glimpse of temper would reveal itself in a stern
2:00.1	face, a sharp word, or when super agitated,
2:04.3	a lengthy sermon. On election night in November of 1992, I remember preparing to hear one of those
2:13.4	speeches. After joining our family for dinner, he and my grandmother watched the election results at our
2:19.8	house. President George Bush was running for re-election. While his grandchildren may or may not have
2:27.5	agreed with him, my grandfather was very firm on where he stood on this election. Having served in the Pacific with George Bush,
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