"Don't laugh like that… Don't look so HAPPY… Life will take it back from you… Something bad will happen to you… It will turn SOUR on you…"

Do you know that voice? Of course you do. I know it too. It's the voice that, without being invited, pulls you back. It scares you. It teaches you that HAPPINESS doesn't belong to you. That you have to pay for it. It convinces you that joy is something suspicious, dangerous. That, in a world full of pain, you don't have the right to laugh.

This book was not written to give you instructions on how to be happy. It was not written to tell you to THINK POSITIVELY. It was written to hold your hand and tell you: You have the right to be well. Don't be ashamed, DON'T BE AFRAID, and don't feel guilty. Joy is a gift and a blessing from God and YOU MUST EXPERIENCE IT. Not because everything is perfect. No, not everything is perfect. But that does not condemn us to misery.

If you have forgotten what it's like to laugh without looking over your shoulder for fear that God or life will punish you, then maybe the book you are holding is what you have been waiting for and need.

Not to tell you what to do. But to remind you WHO YOU ARE and how far you can go. And yes… maybe your joy, in the end, WILL TURN OUT WELL FOR YOU!