Jeni Stepanek The Messenger Essay

The author of this book is Jeni Stepanek and it is foreword by Maya Angelou. This book is really a phenomenon, it is about how Jeni and her son still has the positive spirit despite of the challenges that they faced. Jeni Stepanek is a mother of 4 children, but 3 of her children died at the age of 4 because of the same disorder of Mattie. Mattie Stepanek is the youngest son of Jeni, who was born with the disorder called “Dysautonomic Mitochondrial Myopathy”. Jeni Stepanek share in this book “The Messenger” how intimate and inspiring her son’s life is. When Mattie was born with his disorder, Jeni was advised to let nature take its course to his son. She didn’t agree with that, but instead she supported her son. She let her son share his hardships into a worldwide message of peace and hope. But still Mattie had to fight with his disease, to his mother’s disability and to the death of his 3 older siblings because of the same disease of his. Despite of those challenges in life, Mattie still look on the bright side in life. He still have his positive spirit. His “heartsong” this word is the term that Mattie used to describe the inner self of a person. Peace is not a concept one tries to force on people through invasions,
if you are encountering challenges in life or you are in your worst of your life you must not give up and you must face those challenges because like Mattie and Jeni, their situation is at worst but still, they didn’t give up instead they faced all of their challenges that they’ve encounter. Like Jeni, she accept the death of her child that even thou she’s in pain she think on the bright side, that her son will no longer experience the pain, that her son is in peace now. Also, I realize how a mother sacrifice everything just to make her child happy. A mother will do everything to give her child the best and no matter what happen no one can beat a mother’s love to her