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

We create these quick bursts of inspiration to help start your week on fire and in awe with possibility.

I had several posts sent to me through Facebook and Twitter and Instagram sharing a picture that Michelle Schaumbach, she is being treated at age 65, the Cleveland

clinic, and it was a picture of her on a snowy day recovering and mending while dealing with cancer,

looking out the window of her eighth floor room and outside it's snowy.

There's a park between two sets of trees.

There's a beautiful ribbon drawn into the snow.

And then there are three words.

The three words are these. be brave it's frigid outside

it's snowing outside and michelle's daughter went outside in a snowstorm knowing that her mother was

struggling carved that love letter into the park texted her dad who, who walks over to her mother, who has her

look out the window. And now there's this picture that we will have on our show notes of

Michelle pointing out the window with this smile on her face of the encouragement of a daughter's

love. It's a cool picture. It's a great story. It reminds not only Michelle, but every other patient

at the Cleveland Clinic as they look out the window that they're not alone, that there's reason

for hope. And hope matters. Hope helps healing. Hope changes lives. And when I was a little boy,

this story triggered it within me something somewhat similar.

My brother Jim was frequently a typical older brother to me. He wasn't wild when I would follow him

around. He wasn't wild when I wanted to hang out with his friends and him. He wasn't wild when I

tried to act and talk and be just like him. He was never wild when I would steal his guitar and try to play it as a little kid.

And yet the day I was burned, Jim O'Leary changed profoundly.

He became my hero, quite literally saved my life.

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