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�??My vocation was supposed to be joy, and I was speaking at funerals.�?� 

Shortly after being hired by Yale University to study joy, Angela Gorrell got word that a close family member had died by suicide. Less than a month later, she lost her father to a fatal opioid addiction and her nephew, only twenty-two years old, to sudden cardiac arrest. The theoretical joy she was researching at Yale suddenly felt shallow and distant�??completely unattainable in the fog of grief she now found herself in. 

But joy was closer at hand than it seemed. As she began volunteering at a women�??s maximum-security prison, she met people who suffered extensively yet still showed a tremendous capacity for joy. Talking with these women, many of whom had struggled with addiction and suicidal thoughts themselves, she realized: �??Joy doesn�??t obliterate grief. . . . Instead, joy has a mysterious capacity to be felt alongside sorrow and even�??sometimes most especially�??in the midst of suffering.�?� 

This is the story of Angela�??s discovery of an authentic, grounded Christian joy. But even more, it is an invitation for others to seize upon this more resilient joy as a counteragent to the twenty-first-century epidemics of despair, addiction, and suicide�??a call to action for communities that yearn to find joy and are willing to �??walk together thr