happy are those

by Heather Choate Davis

This small guidebook endeavors to look with 21st-century eyes at the wisdom of an ancient poem called the first psalm. Also known as The Two Ways of Living, it is part of the world's trove of "wisdom literature" — and is likely the first self-help verse ever written.

If you consider yourself to be a “spiritual but not religious” person, you will find in this brief poem unexpected treasure. If you seek a better understanding of happiness but want no part of God, you will discover surprising wisdom in these words.

People the world over have been happening upon them for many thousands of years and come away grateful. Because even though the world keeps changing, the human heart remains the same— and forever leaps to find that happiness is close at hand.

60 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 5, 2016

About the author

Heather Choate Davis began her writing career as an advertising copywriter. Over the past 30 years, she’s written screenplays, teleplays, one-acts, liturgies, and books—including her memoir, Baptism by Fire, the semi-sequel, Elijah & the SAT, and the novel The Pitcher's Mom. She’s also taught creative writing and Junior Great Books, created an original, arts-based vespers called The Renaissance ServiceTM and leads retreats at a high desert monastery, and at book clubs and church groups. Davis blogs at http://www.heatherchoatedavis.com and for the Huffington Post about faith, family, culture, and theology. She has an MA in Theology from Concordia University, Irvine, and is the co-founder of icktank. You can follow her on Twitter @faithinwords. She lives in Mar Vista, CA.