Matthew Messner

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Life is an adventure, and every experience teaches us. This book is a compilation of true adventure stories, each with a life-lesson. The settings include mountain climbing, marathon running, cave exploration, travel, surfing, and competition. There are stories of disappointments and successes. Each has a powerful life-lesson that will resonate with the reader's journey.

"This book is the closest thing in form to a kind of modern expression of parables I've ever read. Clear, compelling, mysterious, and evocative all at once. Beautiful. Read this!"

-A. J. Swoboda (PhD, Birmingham) is assistant professor of Bible, theology, and World Christianity at Bushnell University and the author of After Doubt.