Angels and Dragons

"In the hills and valleys of everyday life people are engaged in a struggle to discover release from their burdens and meaningful purpose for their lives. They seek healing and intimations of wholeness. Those who recognize the struggle will find a companion in Molly Wolf. She has been there. Angels and Dragons took shape when her editor told her to, "Go back and pick out places in your own life where God has been, and write about those." The result is a collection of essays that reflect the vicissitudes of ordinary life with all its hurts and sorrows and struggles. Who hasn't struggled to be loved and understood? Who doesn't identify an evil and struggle over it internally? Who hasn't had to deal with grief and anger and been caught in the middle - in her words, "But I had to forgive. But I couldn't forgive. And so round and round and round we went. That was the moment I first wrestled with angels." There is an attractive unevenness to these essays that mirrors the unevenness of life itself. The dragons are varied and real, the angels are tough customers, and in the midst of it all, "God tugs me Godward and Godward is also lifeward and that entails a fair bit of suffering as well as joy." Ms. Wolf possesses the rare gift of being able to bare her soul and share her life experiences in language free of pretense or piety. Her encounters with God are in and through the ordinary and one gains the sense that it is an inner healing she knows which enables her to deal with the untidiness of life in an ongoing dialogue with God." -- from Anglican Journal, January 2002