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Learn How to Heal Grief, Anger and Pain
Anger will eat away at your soul. It can turn to deep depression and can be emotionally debilitating. Bitterness and unforgiveness are emotional suicides that inflict constant pain and steal joy. When you reach this depth of despair-- when life seems like it will never be good again-- how do you go on? How do you overcome a rage that burns like a volcano?
Pat Bluth was that volcano. After the death of her teenage daughter by a drunk driver, Pat Bluth wanted revenge when he was let off with a mere slap on the wrist. From Pain to Peace is her compelling story, tracing her journey from rage to forgiveness and healing.
From Pain to Peace is for everyone who has known pain or experienced loss. It will be welcomed by anyone who is looking for an example to follow, a proven path to find spiritual healing. It is a story of tragedy, but it is also a story of great joy. Pat discovered a joy and an intimacy with God she never knew possible. She came to experience his love and peace beyond measure. "God is good. All the time." Believe this? Read From Pain to Peace and see how true this statement really is!
What people are saying:
-"I read your book in one day, I just couldn't put it down."
- "I went away with a new understanding about forgiveness and my walk of faith."
- "I found your book to be wonderful."
- "I read your book and was very moved by it."
"I cried and I praised God and I was inspired."
- "Your book will help my daughter as she deals with her separation and probably a divorce."
- "Your story is well written, inspiring, motivating and gives hope."
Testimonials
This wonderful book is a testament to the power of forgiveness and how we will never know God’s peace until we learn the process of forgiveness.
Father Greg Esty
From Pain to Peace is a testimonial of God's healing power through prayer. The author, Pat Bluth, tells the anguished story of her daughter's tragic death at age 17 and how she found inner peace and forgiveness for her daughter's killer through God's grace. The author holds a Master's Degree in Counseling. She found that the natural sciences alone could not ease the pain and anger that she felt. She trusted in the words of Jesus: "Humanly it is impossible, but with God all things are possible" (Matt 19, 26)
The book deserves to be widely read. It gives hope to all who grieve or are in pain. But it is a book for everyone to read and opens up the possibility of spiritual growth for all of us. It tells of the triumph of the human spirit through God's infinite love. Thank you, Pat, for sharing your story with us.
Father Con Kelleher
How many times have you said, “I forgive you, but I can’t forget!” We have done it with our family, our friends, and even our enemies. Little do we know that peace which passes all understanding can only come from full forgiveness?
Jesus has taught us true forgiveness when he told us “Your sins are forgiven and I remember them no more.”
Pat Bluth opens up her whole life to the reader in her book, “From Pain to Peace.” She leaves nothing out. The pain begins with the death of her daughter, Tammy in a car accident. But not a normal accident, but one caused by a drunk driver and he of course lives. But a young full life is taken away.
Pat takes us from that point and begins a journey day by day, month by month of the grief, anger, frustration and determination to make this right. Her daughter Tammy is gone forever and the words from family and friends give her no peace, only greater sorrow.
So walk with Pat on this journey and you will come to a greater understanding of how you appear to people who are living with the pain of death when a loved one has died.
As an employee of a funeral home this book opened my eyes to a new way I approach people in their grief. But also for me in my Christian walk of faith this book was instrumental in me seeing for the first time that true and lasting peace can only come when I forgive and never remember it again.
Barbara
Moose Lake, Minnesota
“…Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us…”
In her book From Pain to Peace, Pat Bluth recounts a story that I, as a parish priest, have encountered far too many times, a story that involves an anguish that I can only imagine. Throughout her book, Pat allows us to walk with her through her own spiritual struggle to forgive the drunk driver whose actions caused the death of her daughter, Tammy. From Pain to Peace is, at its very core, is a fight to live out that ‘as’ in the Lord’s Prayer. Her own struggle to forgive is not uncommon.
Pat signed my copy of her book with the note “Healing follows forgiveness.” From Pain to Peace offers us a piece of very unconventional wisdom: that we don’t truly heal until after we’ve forgiven. In my own pastoral experience, this is among the more valuable insights we can gain. So often, we don’t feel ready to forgive until some form of healing takes place. Pat reminds us that the opposite is true.
Having sought God in the direst circumstances, and found the healing that He wanted for her through a tremendous struggle, Pat uses her book to share that insight with us and to walk with those who face similar difficulty. I think that for anyone who feels slighted by God, or who feels he/she has suffered unfairly. From Pain to Peace is a great tool to bring peace to what can seem like a hopeless situation.
Fr. Kristoffer McKusky, S.T.L.
Wow! What a witness to God's healing grace if we give Him a chance. Pat's story is a great example of how forgiveness brings peace in the grief journey. Thanks for sharing.
Karen Schloemer Befriender Ministry Coordinator
This book, "From Pain to Peace," is a must-read for anyone who has suddenly and tragically lost a loved one, particularly where driving under the influence was involved. I've already bought copies for friends who unfortunately lost a child unnecessarily because of the careless judgment of someone who took the wheel while impaired.
Pat Bluth's passion for helping others find peace through the journey she endured and successfully dealt with, in large measure due to her faith, will make a difference in your own life as well.
Mischelle T., California
Very well documented account of a heart-wrenching time for a mother. The trials and tribulations that followed her daughter's death could only be overcome by the grace of God. To have reached forgiveness of the drunk driver who was responsible and to now know peace is a miracle--a gift made possible through the power of faith.
Ardelle W., Coordinator Befriender Ministry