{"product_id":"grateful-the-subversive-practice-of-giving-thanks","title":"Grateful: The Subversive Practice of Giving Thanks","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Wilbur Award-winning book \u003ci\u003eGrateful\u003c\/i\u003e is now available in paperback and with an updated subtitle.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf gratitude is good, why is it so hard to do? In \u003ci\u003eGrateful\u003c\/i\u003e, Diana Butler Bass untangles our conflicting understandings of gratitude and sets the table for a renewed spiritual practice of giving thanks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe know that gratitude is good, but many of us find it hard to sustain a meaningful life of gratefulness. Four out of five Americans report feeling gratitude on a regular basis, but those private feelings seem disconnected from larger concerns of our public lives. In \u003ci\u003eGrateful\u003c\/i\u003e, cultural observer and theologian Diana Butler Bass takes on this \"gratitude gap\" and offers up surprising, relevant, and powerful insights to practice gratitude.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBass, author of the award-winning \u003ci\u003eGrounded\u003c\/i\u003e and ten other books on spirituality and culture, explores the transformative, subversive power of gratitude for our personal lives and in communities, blending social ethics with spiritual wisdom. Using her trademark blend of historical research, spiritual insights, and timely cultural observation, she shows how we can overcome this gap and make change in our own lives and in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith honest stories and heartrending examples from history and her own life, Bass reclaims gratitude as a path for personal growth and greater connection with god, with others, with the world, and even with our own souls. It's time to embrace a more radical practice of gratitude--the virtue that heals us and helps us thrive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow can we reclaim gratitude not just as a fleeting emotion, but as a transformative practice for our lives and communities?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Gratitude Gap: \u003c\/b\u003e Explore why four out of five of us report feeling thankful, yet our public life is so often filled with anger and division.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eGift and Response: \u003c\/b\u003e Discover a new framework for thankfulness that moves beyond transactional obligation toward a more healing and authentic way of living.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFaith and Culture: \u003c\/b\u003e Delve into Diana Butler Bass's trademark blend of historical research, theological insight, and timely cultural observation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eHealing and Compassion: \u003c\/b\u003e Understand how a robust practice of gratitude can be a subversive power for change in your own soul and in the world.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"HarperOne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51938579022055,"sku":"9780062659484","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_95e16d2a-c95b-437b-ab6e-98b862a42492.jpg?v=1775063890","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/grateful-the-subversive-practice-of-giving-thanks","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}