Putting Joy Into Practice: Seven Ways to Lift Your Spirit from the Early Church

by Phoebe Farag Mikhail

Overview

Putting Joy into Practice: Seven Ways to Lift Your Spirit from the Early Church is an invitation to a life of joy. Phoebe Farag Mikhail explains what joy is and how to experience it through seven spiritual practices that cultivate our inner lives and connect us to our communities. These seven practices, which include giving thanks, hospitality, praise, and more, take us on a journey that leads to joy through the giving and receiving of sacrificial love. She describes her own experiences and struggles with joy and offers practical ways to implement these practices to increase joy in our own lives and in the lives of all those around us.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781640601680
Publisher:	Paraclete Press
Publication date:	04/16/2019
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Phoebe Farag Mikhail is a wife, mother of three children, writer, speaker, educator, and advocate. She blogs about faith, family, relationships and community at BeinginCommunity.com. She serves alongside her husband at St. Antonious & St. Mina Coptic Orthodox Church in East Rutherford, New Jersey, and works in international development.

Table of Contents

Invitation 7

1 What Is Joy? 9

2 The Joy Thieves 21

Practices

1 Praying the Hours 31

2 Visiting the Sick 51

3 The Joy of Repentance 67

4 Giving Thanks 83

5 Hospitality 105

6 Arrow Prayers 123

7 Singing Praise to God 139

Epilogue 153

Giving Thanks, Part II 165

Notes 167