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Samly Maat — The Light From Within
Rising Beyond the Horizon

Book Five of The Light From Within

Rising Beyond the Horizon

How a Refugee Girl Became a Doctor and Found Her Purpose

Forthcoming

The girl who once could not see beyond her small village had traveled farther than she could ever have imagined. But the journey was never only about how far she went.

Beyond What I Could See

Education, work, family, service, and unexpected opportunities carried my life into places I could not have imagined as a child.

Achievement is part of the story, but it is not the whole story. This final memoir looks at the later chapters of my journey and at what those experiences may have been preparing me to do.

A Word from Samly

For many years, I kept moving toward the next goal. Learn. Work. Grow. Serve. Keep going.

Purpose was not something I understood all at once.

Perhaps purpose is not always something we find all at once. Sometimes we recognize it by looking at what our journey has been teaching us all along.