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

O'Leary.

I record these so you and I can begin our days and why not our entire weeks in awe and on fire

with a burst of inspiration. Typically we begin these with a quote or a question. Usually it's

uplifting. This one's going to be a quote and it's going to be incredibly discouraging. By the end of

the conversation though, I hope to make sense of

this quote and how we can live the opposite of it in our lives. Here we go. I don't have any

friends. I don't have any family. I've never had a girlfriend. I never had a social life. I've been

an isolated loner my entire life. This was the perfect

storm for a mass shooter. And after writing these words, the 19-year-old author of them

placed that note on his passenger seat. He exited his car

and entered the high school he had graduated from just a year earlier. He entered the school

with an AR-15-style rifle with 600 rounds of ammunition and with a determination to make

others feel the pain he carried with him.

Surrounded by so much divisiveness, so much anger, and so much cynicism.

My friends, it's easy for us to be overwhelmed with despair and to focus on the negative.

It's common to lose hope in humanity and believe things have never been so bad.

And yet, in the midst of this recent tragedy that rocked my hometown of St. Louis, Missouri,

it's important to not only share the calamity that occurred because it happened,

but also the heroes who leapt into action ensuring it would not be far worse. Central Visual and Performing Arts

High School is a highly regarded and a tightly knit school community in St. Louis. After a 30-year

career as a Marine, Germainiancy chose to become a security officer right there.

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