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Life Is Messy by Matthew Kelly — WisdomDeck honest review
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Life Is Messy

by Matthew Kelly

Short reflections written after Kelly's own hard season: the mess is not the exception, the question is what it makes of us. Honest and fragmentary.

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  1. Mess is normal.
  2. Let it make you, not break you.
  3. Hope is a choice.

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