From Death to Life: A Story of Loss, Faith, and the God Who Never Wastes Our Pain (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798182052498)

At sixteen, Ana Maria Valentin became a mother. Her daughter Meleny was born with Trisomy 13 - a condition that gave her a two-week prognosis. Meleny defied every timeline and lived one year and two months. And when she was gone, Ana buried not just her daughter - but her voice, her story, and the part of herself she didn't yet know how to save.

For years, the grief lived quietly. She carried it through crowded rooms and empty nights, through wrong decisions and desperate searches for belonging, through seasons so dark she couldn't imagine they would ever end. She smiled in public and fell apart alone. She told no one. She told herself it was over.

But God never saw it that way.

From Death to Life is the story of what happens when a woman finally stops running from her pain and lets God turn it into a seed. It is a testimony of loss and resurrection - of burying a child, losing herself, and being found again by a God who never once wasted her winters.

In the pages of this book, you will walk with Ana through:

• The hospital nights, the monitor beeps, and the quiet miracle of a daughter who rewrote what love means
• The years of grief she carried alone - and the morning in a cabin when God pressed play and everything finally broke open
• The long road from shame to surrender, from silence to testimony
• The faith that grew not in spite of the broken seasons, but because of them
• The promise that your winter - no matter how long it has lasted - is not the end of your story

From Death to Life is for every woman who has ever buried something she loved - a child, a dream, a version of herself she thought she needed. It is for the woman crying behind the steering wheel. For the one who smiles in public and unravels in private. For the one who has been carrying something too heavy for too long and is desperate to know that God sees her, that He has not forgotten her, and that the roots are still alive even when everything on the surface looks like winter.

Same stem. Same roots. Two seasons.

And spring always comes.

"Maybe my pain was never meant to be a secret - it was meant to be a seed."
- Ana Maria Valentin