Hello, my friends and welcome to the Live Inspired podcast Monday Morning Moments with John O'Leary.

I record these so that you and I can begin our days

and our weeks in awe and on fire with a burst of inspiration. We're going to begin this one with a

quote from one of my favorite humans. Here it comes. Daddy, you are so lucky. I heard these words while preparing for a business trip recognizing the truth within them

transformed the way i saw myself that day embracing the truth within them will elevate the way you view

yourself today let me explain more i was racing around my bedroom packing my clothes into a very well-traveled suitcase. The words were spoken by my six-year-old daughter at the time, her name, Grace. At this age, she still loves hanging out with me, walking the dog with me, shooting baskets with me, setting the table with me, and sometimes just

hanging out having a tea party with me. She wants to soak up the time together and she even helps

me pack for every trip. On this evening, she sat with her legs crossed on the floors I packed.

She followed as I moved from my drawers to the suitcase, then to the closet, and then back again,

observing her little voice cut through the silence.

Daddy, you're so lucky.

I stopped racing around and I looked at her, blonde hair flipping over her shoulders, blue eyes, sparkling through her pink sunglasses.

I asked why she thinks that I'm lucky.

And she responded, everybody else I know looks the same.

But you, you have all kinds of cool colors and designs on your arms.

Like your scars have lots of reds and purples and tans.

She paused for a moment, still staring, and then she added,

I just think you're so lucky.

Scars.

Nobody desires to go through something that leaves behind a painful reminder of what changed,

what could have been, and how differently things ended up from what we plant.

Nobody desires scars that cover not only the entirety of their arms, but the entirety of their

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