One silver lining in the pandemic is the new awareness many people gained for working to maintain good mental health. This post is to tell you about what Virtues101 is thinking about and how we are trying to help. First let’s talk about a writer and then I’ll tell you about some products.
This post is featuring the writer Justice Saint Rain, who has written eight books offerings his own understanding how of a spiritual perspective can aid the process of emotional healing.
Justice started with Falling Into Grace – a book about the unique “mental tests” that come with joining a new and very diverse religious community. It was the best-selling Baha’i book the year it was published, selling over 3,000 copies due to word-of-mouth recommendations.
Next came Why Me? A Spiritual Guide to Growing Through Tests. It helped people understand that tests were gifts to help them grow, not punishments for being bad people. I was recently invited to join an interfaith Zoom book club that was reading this book. They liked it so much that they decided to follow up with
The Secret of Happiness. This started out as a pamphlet, but the expanded gift edition added supporting quotations and beautiful borders. It explains how happiness is the result of developing our virtues.
From Happiness to ALL of our emotions, The Secret of Emotions explains that our emotions are the tools God gave us to help us identify the presence or absence of His virtues in our lives.
Four of the most important virtues for happiness and healing are Forgiveness, Honesty, Compassion and Faith. These are the subject of 4 Tools of Emotional Healing.
The emotion and the virtue we long for the most is love. Longing for Love is about nurturing healthy relationships.
Justice compiled these last three books together into one volume, called Love, Lust and the Longing for God. Bad title, great book.
His most recent title Twelve Steps & the Baha’ Faith explores the common principles between these two communities and the unique qualities they have to offer one another.