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

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

We're going to begin this one with a quote from Mahatma Gandhi.

Gandhi said that the best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in service of others. Six weeks after completing the

filming for On Fire, I am still digesting the experience of having a full-length feature film

capture the most tragic, the most intimate, the most painful, redemptive, and then ultimately

joyful aspects of my life. It was a surreal

experience that moved me deeply, reinforced the profound gift of life, and shine a brilliant

light on the power of unconditional love. Now, sometimes that love was captured in the heroic actions of young siblings while a fire rages in their house.

Sometimes it was personified in an emergency room when a parent pulls back a curtain, sees their child in agony, loses their breath,

moves then through their own fear, and personifies grace.

Sometimes there's experience through the excellent care of a nurse or the outstanding effort of a janitor

or the consistent hope-inducing voice of a radio announcer.

But as valuable as it may be learning lessons portrayed

on screen, it was sometimes what quietly occurred behind the scenes that exemplified most

impactfully the power of love in action. The model of that servant leadership, though, was not some actor or producer or crew member or even director.

It was someone instead who did not audition for the role or get paid for the work, but embraced it fully regardless.

It was my wife, Beth O'Leary.

Betheliery enjoys her work as an occupational therapist and adores her family.

She doesn't indulge in social media.

She doesn't brag about herself ever, and she does not seek attention.

She certainly did not ask for a film to be made about our lives.

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