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

This is going to be a great one.

You ready for it?

Four astronauts recently returned from space. They were part of the art in this second mission. They went up as pilots and

they went up as engineers and they went up as explorers. And they came back. Entirely changed.

Their perspective on life radically altered.

The professional insights will undoubtedly shape the future of our space program.

This is true.

They'll guide our return to the moon and eventually the exploration beyond.

But perhaps their most important discovery is not at all about space.

Perhaps it's about our life right here on Earth today.

After launching from Earth and traveling at speeds approaching 25,000 miles per hour,

once you hear that again, as I wrote this, I was on an airplane traveling at about 430 miles per hour, soaring through the clouds.

They were going 25,000 miles per hour.

The crew journeyed hundreds of thousands of miles through space.

When they returned 10 days later, the world leaned in,

eager to hear what these leaders, these explorers, these astronauts had learned. And yet, my friends,

in interview after interview, the crew of Reed Weissman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hanson

struggle to find the words, not only the words, but any words.

Awkward silence-filled press conferences not because they lacked intelligence or clarity,

but because they experienced something too big for language.

From more than 200,000 miles away, there were no borders, there were no politics, there was no noise, there was no war. They saw a fragile blue sphere

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