God Wants You Happy From Self-Help to God's Help
God Wants You Happy
From Self-Help to God's Help
author Fr. Jonathan Morris
211 pages hdbk
FOX News Analyst Father Jonathan Morris Tells Us the Secret to Happiness Not Found in Any Self-Help Book
In God Wants You Happy, Father Jonathan Morris replaces the unsatisfying, fleeting solutions we recieve from the New Age self-help industry with the simplicity and depth of authentic Christian spirituality. In his work traveling the world for FOX News and inhis parish work in New York City, Father Jonathan could not understand why people were choosing the vague and sometimes harmful advice of the self-help gurus and ignoring the tested and true help the Christian faith offers. He discovered that part of the problem was packaging: people thought the church dealt only with sin and guilt and not help and healing. But what if we reframed God's good news in the same terms as the self-help world?
Morris argues that self-help can only take you so far; what we need is God-help. God Wants You Happy offers a life-long spiritual program that teaches you how to open yourself up to God's loving presence in order to become everything he created you to be-joyful, flourishing men and women. In other words, God wants you to be happy.
Illuminated with biblical passages and filled with case studies and exercises, God Wants You Happy helps you to
- Open your mind and heart to the all-loving God who wants to help and empower you
- Work through the Faith-Hope-Love Cure to rid yourself of self-destructive and self-limiting habits while forming new habits for receiving grace, forgiveness, acceptance, and love
- Tap into the natural mechanisms of self-improvement God has already put within you
- Discover your divine mission
A lifetime of happiness is at your fingertips and the Creator of the universe wants to help you achieve it.
"Father Jonathan Morris has love in his heart for every human being, including every person lucky enough to read his powerful new book. Here is a plan for making God your partner in seeking the life you deserve, filled with happiness, hope, and success." Keith Ablow, M.D., coauthor, The 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life
"Father Jonathan Morris's inviting, accessible, and personal new book is a reminder of an overlooked truth: faith leads to joy. Through the use of insightful meditations on Bible stories, examples from his own life, and teachings of spiritual masters from a variety of traditions, his book shows us why joy is the surest sign of God's presence in our lives." James Martin, SJ, author of The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything
