CONTROLLED BURN FREE FIELD GUIDE
A true story of cancer, faith, and fire

When Life Is on Fire, God Is Still in Control.

If you or someone you love is walking through illness, loss, or a season you never chose, this book is for you.

In Controlled Burn, Tonja Pektas shares her fight with an ultra-rare cancer and the fire-crew lessons God taught her in the flames.

Discover how you can:
  • See your hardest season as a controlled burn, not a wildfire
  • Trust God when you cannot see the plan
  • Recognize the people He sends to stand with you
  • Bring your fear and questions to Him honestly
  • Rise from the ashes better, not bitter
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Controlled Burn: Why Would a Good, Loving God Allow Pain and Suffering? by Tonja Pektas
“Your life fire is God’s controlled burn. It is a carefully controlled dance with fire, a burn plan controlled by the God who loves you and wants wellness for your life.” Tonja Pektas, author of Controlled Burn

Controlled Burn Helps You:

Make Sense of the Fire

See how the stages of a controlled burn reveal a good, loving God at work in your pain.

Find Your Fire Crew

Recognize the family, friends, and even strangers God sends to surround you when the flames rise.

Rise Better, Not Bitter

Let God burn away what does not belong so new life can grow from the ashes.

Why Controlled Burn?

Fire crews do not light a match and hope for the best. They make a plan, wait for the right conditions, build firebreaks, and stay until the last ember is out. A controlled burn clears away what could feed a wildfire and makes room for new growth.

Tonja walked through every one of those stages during her battle with epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (EHE), a cancer so rare she could not find a single oncologist in Central Florida who had ever treated it. With honesty, humor, and scripture, she shows how the same careful process answers the question on the cover: why would a good, loving God allow pain and suffering?

Imagine Walking Through the Fire Knowing:

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The Controlled Burn Field Guide: 7 Days by the Fireside
When you get the book, you’ll also receive

The Controlled Burn Field Guide: 7 Days by the Fireside

A 19-page devotional companion that walks you through the seven stages of a controlled burn, one day at a time, with:

  • Tonja’s own words and the fire-crew meaning of each stage
  • A verse to carry with you each day
  • Reflections by the Fireside questions with room to write
  • A short prayer to close each day
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Tonja Pektas, author of Controlled Burn
Meet the Author

Tonja Pektas

Tonja Pektas is a wife, a mother of five, and a grandmother who lives in Central Florida. A retired CPA and CFO consultant, she has spent years fighting epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (EHE), an ultra-rare cancer, surrounded by her family and her Team Tonja prayer warriors. Controlled Burn is her story of seeing a good, loving God at work in the fire.

See the paintings Tonja created during her burn at jetlaunch.link/controlledburn.

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