What began as a long letter written in reply to one person became a book relevant to all. Harvesting a variety of sources -- diverse religious traditions, classical and modern texts, and a lifetime of personal experiences, interactions, and spiritual encounters -- Price meditates on God's participation in our fate. He explores the phenomenon of God's seeming desertions in the face of human suffering and, conversely, examples of healing and beauty against insurmountable odds. With candor and sympathy, Reynolds offers the reader such a rich variety of tools to explore these questions as to place this work in the company of other great testaments of faith from St. Augustine to C. S. Lewis.