Redemption Stories: Unwasted Pain (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781449051532)

The author has collected and shaped interviews into a book of true stories of the stunning journeys that ordinary people have made from pain to redemption. Unwasted Pain, the subtitle of the book, refers to the process of facing and distilling pain from such difficulties as abuse, hatred, crime, war and evil--and finding more peace and equilibrium (sometimes more than there was before). Besides the twenty-one stories that comprise the chapters of this book, Mary Ciofalo has also written four essays and an introduction that include more vignettes of redemption stories along with her observations about the nature and activation of redemption. She tells us what she has gleaned while compiling this book. She also includes the view of an Advaitan Swami and an Episcopalian minister, as well as those of a former warden of San Quentin Prison. This book is inspirational; and it has the potential to expand one's thinking to include the possibility of redemption to both the harmed and the harmer--in situations where one might not even conceive of mercy or forgiveness or the possibility of redemtption.

Author: Mary Ciofalo
ISBN-10: 1449051537
ISBN-13: 9781449051532
Publisher: Authorhouse
Language: English
Published: 12/11/2009
Pages: 260
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d