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Nov 2021
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2174: An Excerpt from the book A Small I...

Justin Malik
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Elijah Stacy shares an excerpt from his book A Small If

Episode 2174: An Excerpt from the book A Small If by Elijah Stacy on Inspiration & Motivation for Difficult Times

This book is about putting our lives back together, and allowing ourselves to be put back together, when life doesn’t turn out as we expected it to. Based on his own heart-wrenching personal journals, Matthew Kelly shares how the worst three years of his life affected him, by exploring this question: Can someone who has been broken be healed and become more beautiful and more lovable than ever before?

More about the book can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Small-If-Inspiring-17-Year-Old-Disease 

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