It was a Monday morning.
I was with my sister, and we got a call that my parents car was parked outside their market, but the gates were down.
And it was well after the time that the store should have been opened.
So we knew in our gut something was very wrong.
Like, none of it made sense.
And the area in Detroit where the store was wasn't a particularly safe neighborhood.
So my sister and I got in the car and we went to my brother in law's deli that he had.
It was called the Ham palace.
And we went there because my other sister Kim worked there as well.
So the four of us waited as my brother Jimmy drove downtown to check out what was going on.
And he was the one who eventually came to the market and told us that they had been shot.
To look at the life of this week's guest, Scott Stabil.
From the outside in, you would think to yourself, this guy has every reason to be filled with anger and rage.
When he was 14 years old, his parents were brutally murdered while working at the market that they owned.
About nine years later, his brother odeed, and he lost his brother from heroin.
And he grew up in an environment sort of surrounded by dysfunction and addiction and violence and tragedy and loss.
And through this, so many people would take that and become absolutely just enraged with the world and be mired in unfairness and stuck.
And that is a valid part of the emotions that we all feel.
Scott somehow found a way through it.
He found a way to turn around and use all of the pain as motivation to open his heart, to live from a place of just wide open love.