Theme: Faith, perseverance, purpose and finding meaning through difficulty

Agathos is a young angel in training who must gather flowers from a rocky and difficult island before he can enter into his eternal rest. The flowers, it turns out, can only grow in hard and stony ground.This short allegorical tale carries one of the most quietly powerful truths in all of literature. Our most difficult seasons are not detours from our purpose. They are the very place where our most beautiful growth happens.

For any reader who is in a hard season and wondering whether it means anything at all, Agathos offers a gentle and luminous answer.

Sometimes the rockiest ground produces the rarest flowers.