Well, hello, my friends, and welcome to the Live Inspired podcast Monday morning moments with John O'Leary.

I record these each and every week so you and I can begin our days and these

weeks in awe and on fire with the bursts of inspiration. Let's start with a quote from my buddy John

Bunyan. Bunyan wrote that you have not lived today until you have done something for someone

who can never repay you. We had that experience of being unable to pay someone several years ago.

I want to share with you the story and the impact on not only our life, but what it means for you today.

You see, several years ago, we were out to eat as a family and my three little boys, Henry and Patrick and Jack.

They fought the entire time. My typically angelic little girl,

her name is Grace, she whined the entire time. And Beth and I worked desperately to keep the

noise from scaring away other diners, drinks from being spilled, and food from being thrown

the entire time. It was a struggle to say the

least, and it was a struggle, my friends, we lost. As we wrapped up dinner, I apologized to our sweet

waitress and told her the faster she brought me the bill, the faster we would get out of her

hair. So unsurprisingly, she returned quickly with our bill,

and that's when the surprising thing happened. She handed it to me. She smiled and she told me

that someone in the restaurant had covered our bill. She said that the person remembers the days

when their dinners were chaotic, and they wanted to treat us to dinner tonight because it was going to make their night.

We made their night by simply being a typical chaotic, messy family.

So I stood up, I glanced around the restaurant looking for the individual or the people, the family, the kind soul.

And no one stood up.

I asked the waitress to please let us know who it was so we could thank them.

And she refused.

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