Miroslav Volf

“For Angela this book is not about Angela, though stories of her experiences figure very prominently in it. It is about the great power of that rather ephemeral but irresistible emotion called joy, an emotion that we cannot manufacture but that we can prepare for and open ourselves toward. . . . That joy, Christ’s joy, is ‘an incredibly powerful counteragent to despair—and even a companion during suffering.’ In a way—a difficult, challenging way—each of the stories of addiction, despair, depression, and death Angela here tells is an invitation to that kind of joy.”
— Miroslav Volf , from the foreword