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by Rebecca Faye Smith Galli (Author)
Best-selling author Rebecca Galli has experienced some of life's most difficult challenges: sibling loss, special needs children, paralysis. In this book of daily readings, she offers reflective questions and inspiration for readers to "fuel up" on positivity each morning.
Can a few minutes each morning change the tone of your entire day? In this inspiring collection of 365 daily reflections, best-selling author Rebecca Galli shares hard-won wisdom shaped by profound loss, special needs parenting, resilience, faith, and unexpected joy. Designed to encourage deeper thinking and emotional renewal, Morning Fuel helps readers begin each day with greater courage, clarity, and perspective. Having survived the death of her seventeen-year-old brother, raising two children with special needs including autism and epilepsy, divorce, and ultimately her own paralysis, Galli understands the importance of staying emotionally and spiritually fueled. Infused with wisdom from her deep-thinking pastor father, ever-optimistic mother, and memorable family members and friends, as well as some of history's greatest thinkers, her reflections offer comfort during difficult seasons while encouraging resilience, connection, and intentional growth. Each entry blends timeless stories, gentle insight, and reflective questions designed to inspire personal application and thoughtful conversations. Whether you are seeking spiritual renewal, daily encouragement, deeper connection with loved ones, or simply a more intentional way to begin your mornings, Morning Fuel's wisdom, comfort, and renewed perspective make it a perfect gift for caregivers, friends, couples, families, book clubs, or anyone longing for greater connection, reflection, resilience, and encouragement in everyday life.Author Biography
Rebecca (Becky) Faye Smith Galli is an author and columnist who writes about love, loss, and healing. Surviving significant losses--her seventeen-year-old brother's death; her son's degenerative disease and subsequent death; her daughter's autism; her divorce; and nine days later, her paralysis from transverse myelitis, a rare spinal cord inflammation affecting one in a million--has fostered an unexpected but prolific writing career. In 2000, The Baltimore Sun published her first column about playing soccer with her son--from the wheelchair that launched her From Where I Sit newspaper column. Her books, Rethinking Possible - A Memoir of Resilience (2017) and Morning Fuel - Daily Inspirations to Stretch Your Mind Before Starting Your Day (2024) reflect what she believes: "Life can be good--no matter what." With over 400 published columns, she continues to write Thoughtful Thursdays--Lessons from a Resilient Heart (www.beckygalli.com/signup). A Morehead-Cain Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she was formerly employed by IBM, where she was the recipient of the Golden Circle award for marketing excellence. Becky resides in Lutherville, Maryland, outside of Baltimore.
