Volume: In the Radiance of God, the sigh of the soul

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Do you truly want to be happy in your life? Do you desire integral well-being? In this book, which can be defined as a journey towards authentic happiness, there is truly a very serious proposal that deserves the utmost attention from those who truly desire their own personal good and that of the entire community.

The underlying problem addressed is the burning and ever-relevant issue of the meaning of life.

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Review by Giuseppe

I would define this new book as a journey towards authentic happiness. The analysis of personal situations, special cases, and contemporary culture is done with precision and care, neglecting nothing, going to the very bottom of the underlying logic of everyday life.

The proposed solutions do not merely lean towards psychological or psychotherapeutic discourse, but they make you see how the solution to the existential problem must be sought in the deepest reasons of the human spirit, made in the image and likeness of God.

In this realm, there are reflections so complete and profound that they alone are enough to consider this book a true gift for those who love to challenge themselves in the light of their own mind.

Review by Rosa

I have read the books published by the Guelpa brothers; the latest, "In the Radiance of God", has given me many answers and the opportunity to question myself on every topic it addresses. One night, while reading, I thought it would be interesting to discuss the book's topics with other people; I was only at the beginning of my reading.

Fantasy? Imagination? I was surely conditioned by the title.

As I read, little by little a scene formed before my eyes that accompanied me throughout the entire reading of the book. I saw clearly and with disbelief a clearing, a circle of stones, and inside the circle a fire emanating warmth.

Around the fire, young and old, women and men, engaged in discussing, sharing stories, asking questions, so many unanswered questions. To one side, a brook with crystal clear waters.

High in the sky, on a white cloud, lying face down with his chin resting on the palm of his right hand, was Our Lord. He looked at this group of his children, listening and often changing his expression, sometimes amused, sometimes frowning, but always with a gaze full of love and great tenderness.

I saw the expressions on a face that only my mind could perceive and was not visible to my eyes. In fact, I would not know how to describe Him.

The question everyone asks, almost obsessively, is: "What is the meaning of my life, why this emptiness inside me?" and others of the same kind, looking at great enterprises, having impossible dreams, imagining projects that will never come true. If not everything, the essential part of the countless answers is in the book.

The topics it addresses are the answers to our questions.

The Christian will say it "costs" to walk the path that leads to Jesus; the atheist might walk the path without realizing they are following Jesus, only to find themselves changed later and who knows, perhaps even converted. Reading the book does not work miracles, but it happens that sometimes a book totally changes our mindset.

We soon realize that life only has meaning if you look around and pay attention to the little things of every day; the little things bring happiness.

It is not necessary to think about great things. Throughout life we enrich ourselves, with the experience that each day brings us new things, we learn that suffering strengthens us, joy sweetens us, a book enriches our mind, nourishes it, opens it. We come to know other truths, we deepen what we already knew.

And is all this "nothing"? "In the Radiance of God" is a book within everyone's reach, it is a necessary read, one to recommend.

I remember reading somewhere: a painter paints Jesus knocking on a heavy door. During the exhibition the painter holds, a visitor approaches the painter and tells him he painted a door without a handle. The painter replies: that door is the human heart, it only opens from the inside.

Reading this book does not open the door of our heart to Jesus, but it helps us, it invites us to do so. It was written, in my opinion, to share with us readers this wonderful opportunity. By opening that heavy door, we will learn to love.