{"product_id":"the-saints-guide-to-happiness","title":"The Saints' Guide to Happiness","description":"\u003cp\u003eA noted spiritual writer seeks answers to lifes big questions in the stories of the saints  In All Saints---published in 1997 and already a classic of its kind---Robert Ellsberg told the stories of 365 holy people with great vividness and eloquence. In The Saints Guide to Happiness  Ellsberg looks to the saints to answer the questions: What is happiness  and how might we find it?  Countless books answer these questions in terms of personal growth  career success  physical fitness  and the like. The Saints Guide to Happiness proposes instead that happiness consists in a grasp of the deepest dimension of our humanity  which characterizes holy people past and present. The book offers a series of \"lessons\" in the life of the spirit: the struggle to feel alive in a frenzied society; the search for meaningful work  real friendship  and enduring love; the encounter with suffering and death; and the yearning to grasp the ultimate significance of our lives. In these \"lessons \" our guides are the saints: historical figures like Augustine  Francis of Assisi  and Teresa of Avila  and moderns such as Dorothy Day  Flannery OConnor  and Henri J. Nouwen. In the course of the book the figures familiar from stained-glass windows come to seem exemplars  not just of holy piety but of \"life in abundance \" the quality in which happiness and holiness converge.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44966856851509,"sku":"ByrdShop_0232525439","price":46.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780232525434.jpg?v=1770584036","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-saints-guide-to-happiness","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}