Getting to Grateful: A Gift to Graduates - Reflections on Mindful, Virtuous Practice

By Mark Douglas Smith

Joy. Love. Peace. These are nearly universal aspirations among individuals. How do you achieve them? How do you sustain them?

Some might characterize joy, love, and peace as virtues. The reflections offered in this book come from a different perspective, a different idea. Joy, love, and peace are not virtues. They are virtuous outcomes, the results (among others) of understanding and practicing a hierarchy of seven basic virtues-culminating in gratitude-through which you can achieve and sustain the aspirations that enable your best life.

The problems you encounter in life are often driven by the opposite of virtues-greed, envy, fear, revenge, and tribalism. You can't hope to overcome these problem drivers without mindful, intentional, virtuous practice.

Getting to Grateful can serve as a guide to finding your way to gratitude and the outcomes it may produce. To the young reader who identifies as a member of Gen Z or Gen Alpha, this book may help you redefine yourself as a member of Gen G-the Grateful Generation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GSXB6D2T
• ISBN13: 9798898387310
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 13 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary