What Do You See? (Monday Moment ep. 499)

Live Inspired Podcast with John O'Leary

John O'Leary

Self-improvement, Bestsellingauthor, Education, Dailyinspiration, Society & Culture, Liveinspired, Johnoleary, Inspiration, Joebuck, Inspiredliving, Onfire, Relationships

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🗓️ 19 September 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

When you look at your life, what do see? When you read the headlines, what leaps off at you? While you visit with family, or work with colleagues or commute through life, what do you see?

What we seek, we find.

Choosing to see life like this doesn’t make challenges fade. It just ensures the next time you glance into a mirror, struggle in a relationship or feel discouraged by life you can honestly proclaim, “It may be red, it may be bumpy, it may be ridgy, it may be far from perfect…but I love it.”

And that kind of perspective not only changes what you see, but also what happens next in life.

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0:00.0	Well, hello, my friends, and welcome to the Live Inspired podcast, Monday morning moments with John O'Leary.
0:16.3	As you know, by now, I record these so you and I can begin our days and our weeks in awe and on fire with a
0:23.3	burst of inspiration.
0:24.4	We frequently begin these podcast moments, either with a quote or with a question.
0:30.4	So how about today we begin with a question?
0:33.1	So what do you see?
0:35.0	What do you see?
0:37.0	Several years ago, I was getting ready for work when my son, Jack, walked into the bathroom as I was shaving.
0:44.5	As a five-year-old little boy, he stood next to me for a while, pretending that he, too, was getting rid of the stubble on his cheeks.
0:52.9	And then he stopped pretending and began gently touching the scars that cover my torso.
0:59.0	These are the deep red scars with ridges and lumps that traverse much of my stomach.
1:05.1	These are the scars that even today often avoid looking at because they're just too painful.
1:10.8	These are the scars that remind me
1:12.8	of all I went through as a child and would rather forget as an adult. But on this day, Jack
1:19.8	traced with his little finger the scars that are evidence of all that I've gone through my life,
1:24.9	and he said this. Daddy?
1:28.8	Yeah, bud.
1:34.9	There was a long pause as he continued tracing his finger along the scars, and slowly he added,
1:43.7	Your tummy is red, it is bumpy, and it is ridgy.
1:49.2	Little Jack stopped his sentence but kept tracing the scars.
1:54.9	During that pregnant pause, I prepared to let him know that dad might be a little different.
1:55.7	That is true.
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