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    Dirt: Growing Strong Roots in What Makes the Broken Beautiful
    Dirt: Growing Strong Roots in What Makes the Broken Beautiful
    Dirt: Growing Strong Roots in What Makes the Broken Beautiful
    Audiobook6 hours

    Dirt: Growing Strong Roots in What Makes the Broken Beautiful

    Written by Mary Marantz

    Narrated by Mary Marantz

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    Dirt is a story about the places where we start. From a single-wide trailer in the mountains of rural West Virginia to the halls of Yale Law School, Mary Marantz's story is one of remembering our roots while turning our faces to the sky. From growing up in that trailer, where it rained just as hard inside as out and the smell of mildew hung thick in the air, Mary has known what it is to feel broken and disqualified because of the muddy scars leaving smudged fingerprints across our lives. Generations of her family lived and logged in those hauntingly treacherous woods, risking life and limb just to barely scrape by. And yet that very struggle became the redemption song God used to write a life she never dreamed of.

    Mixed with warmth, wit, and the bittersweet, sometimes achingly heartbreaking places we go when we dig in instead of give up, Dirt is a story of healing. With gut-wrenching honesty and hard-won wisdom, Mary shares her story for anyone who has ever walked into the world and felt like their scars were still on display, showing that you are braver, better, and more empathetic for what you have survived. Because God does his best work in the muddy, messy, and broken-if we'll only learn to dig in.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChristianAudio.com
    Release dateSep 15, 2020
    ISBN9781545915974

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