Messenger: The Legacy of Mattie J. T. Stepanek and Heartsongs (Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction Series)

Messenger: The Legacy of Mattie J. T. Stepanek and Heartsongs (Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction Series) Review

I recently had the pleasure of discussing this book, and Jeni's son Mattie's first book, Journey Through Heartsongs on a TV segment I do on books that matter. I felt both needed to be featured to get the full impact of the story Jeni tells of her remarkable son's life. At first I found it difficult to read Messenger because I kept getting caught up in the 'seeing' the hospital scenes. Then I realized that was because the book was so well written. I relaxed into it, and was able to take away so much. Most of all this book sets the stage for why Jeni -- a mother who did not lose one child but all four of her children -- is devoting her life to carrying on the work Mattie started. Jeni is trying to teach teens to be global peacemakers just like Mattie. She is taking up where his work left off. Focusing the legacy of his work on the eternal age group of his peers seems to be pure inspiration. In 14 years, Mattie succeed in living with a termainal disease and found a way to touch the world with a message of meaning and hope. He succeed in setting and achieving goals even as his body fought to take him out of the game. He succeed in creating so much love that this message is being kept alive not just in a book but as a program of compassion in action. Messenger allows you to understand just how impossible all Mattie did really was -- and yet allows you to understand just how heJourney Through Heartsongs did it. Thank you, Jeni for a great book. Peace, Andrea T. Goeglein, [...]

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Messenger: The Legacy of Mattie J. T. Stepanek and Heartsongs (Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction Series) Overview

The moving tribute to the young man Oprah Winfrey called "an inspiration"-told by the woman who raised him.

Mattie Stepanek's Heartsongs books were a phenomenon. Not only did they hit the bestseller lists, but the books-and Mattie himself- were a source of inspiration to many, and brought him major recognition. Jimmy Carter described young Mattie Stepanek as "the most remarkable person I have ever known."

In Messenger, Jeni Stepanek shares the inspiring story of her son's life. Mattie was born with a rare disorder called Dysautonomic Mitochondrial Myopathy, and Jeni was advised to institutionalize him. Instead, she nurtured a child who transformed his hardships into a worldwide message of peace and hope. Though Mattie suffered through his disease, his mother's disabilities, and the loss of his three older siblings, he never abandoned his positive spirit. His Heartsong- the word he used to describe a person's inner self-spread a philosophy that peace begins with an attitude and can spread to the entire world.

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