A story of self-discovery, leading to forgiveness, redemption, and healing. Flight Instructions: A Journey through Guilt to Forgiveness is a touchingly honest memoir - the story of a decades-long journey that began when author Kathleen P. Perkins answered an inner call. This call was a summons ferocious enough to wrench her from her husband of fourteen years and their three young children. Loosed from her family, severed from the life she had known for over thirty years, she uncovered a powerful spiritual dimension which eventually forced her to take her hands from her eyes - and the shield from her heart. ***** Marriage to a good man, three young, healthy children, a fine home. From the outside Kathleen Perkins' life looked ideal. It wasn't. Undercurrents of sadness and unhappiness welled up inside her and a palpable, edgy unrest rippled through her family. Then there came an inner call, a summons ferocious enough to wrench her from her three children and husband of fourteen years. Loosed from her family, severed from the life she had known for over thirty years, Perkins felt liberated and lost at the same time. Having no developmental chart for starting over, she lurched forward. Perkins carried guilt and shame with her. Denial, in the form of a tenacious shadow character, appropriately named "Big D," wrapped itself around her obstructing her journey. This is the story of familial love and forgiveness and the discovery of a powerful spiritual dimension so deep that Perkins was forced to take her hands from her eyes and the shield from her heart.