About this title: Kate Braestrups remarkable journey from grief to faith to happiness is a dramatic, funny, deeply moving, and simply unforgettable story. She shares her uplifting account of finding God through helping others, and reminds readers of the small miracles that occur every day when life and love are restored.Little, Brown and Company
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
ISBN-13:9780316066303ISBN:0316066303
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
ISBN-13:9780739492482ISBN:0739492489
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780739492482ISBN:0739492489
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Date Published: 2007-08-01
ISBN-13:9780316066303ISBN:0316066303
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
ISBN-13:9780316066303ISBN:0316066303
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
ISBN-13:9780316066303ISBN:0316066303
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"Witty, wry, and wise, Kate Braestrup's memoir about how the death of her beloved husband eventually led to her becoming a minister. She does not preach at the reader. She just talks about her own experiences, human, detailed, utterly compassionate, infinitely generous, and funny when acknowledging the total horror of her family when they discovered that she'd come to believe in God.
I got a little dizzy at the switchbacks between present and past, but other readers might not mind that. The writing itself is just exquisite. I even made it through grim details of search and rescue and finding bodies, subjects that are usually total turnoffs to me. (Search and rescue makes me anxious, and I am too squeamish for forensics.)
Here's a key graph from an e-mail to her brother, who wrote to ask an important question:
It doesn't matter how educated, moneyed, or smart you are: when your child's footprints end at the river's edge, when the one you love has gone into the woods with a bleak outlook and a loaded gun, when the chaplain is walking toward you with bad news in her mouth, then only the cliches are true, and you will repeat them, unashamed. Your life, too, will swing suddenly and cruelly in a new direction with breathtaking speed, and if you are really wise--and it's surprising and wondrous, Brother, how many people have this wondrous wisdom in them--you will know enough to look around for love. It will be there, standing right on the hinge, holding out its arms to you. If you are wise, whoever you are, you will let go, fall against that love, and be held."
"I had blogged about Kate Braestrup a couple of weeks ago after hearing her interviewed on Speaking of Faith. In her book she shares how she become an ordained Unitarian Universalist minister and she came to work as a chaplain for the Maine Warden Service. She shares her thoughts on faith which she embodies as love, vignettes of experiences from her work, and a rare inside view of the game warden service in Maine. Her memoir was so touching, sad at times, and always beautiful that I cried in nearly every chapter. It wasn't depressing but very moving. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is a Unitarian Universalist, enjoys reading about spirituality and faith, works in the field of service, or likes memoirs."
"Ten years ago, Kate Braestrup and her husband Drew were enjoying the life they shared together. They had four young children, and Drew, a Maine state trooper, would soon begin training to become a minister as well. Then early one morning Drew left for work and everything changed. On the very roads that he protected every day, an oncoming driver lost control, and Kate lost her husband. Stunned and grieving, Kate decided to continue her husband's dream and became a minister herself. And in that capacity she found a most unusual mission: serving as the minister on search and rescue missions in the Maine woods, giving comfort to people whose loved ones are missing, and to the wardens who sometimes have to deal with awful outcomes. Whether she is with the parents of a 6-year-old girl who had wandered into the woods, with wardens as they search for a snowmobile rider trapped under the ice, or assisting a man whose sister left an infant seat and a suicide note in her car by the side of the road, Braestrup provides solace, understanding, and spiritual guidance when it's needed most. HERE IF YOU NEED ME is the story of Kate Braestrup's remarkable journey from grief to faith to happiness. It is dramatic, funny, deeply moving, and simply unforgettable, an uplifting account about finding God through helping others, and the tale of the small miracles that occur every day when life and love are restored.
I found this book very uplifting. She has a different religious take in some ways than I do, but in the end, it's very good."
"This is a thought-provoking but funny piece of writing. Braestrup uses the death of her husband, her grief, and her new career as a Unitarian-Universalist minister serving as chaplain of the Maine Game Warden Service to illustrate her belief that God is love. Followers of any other religion will probably find ideas with which to argue but the author clearly has such a giving heart that it's impossible to dislike her, even if you don't agree with her. The writing style is challenging - bits of her home life are parsed with bits of her work life to ultimately make a point - and some readers in my book club felt she didn't include enough detail about her kids or new husband but the point of the book is less memoir and more testifying to a nonjudgmental, all-inclusive view of God and religion. She does include graphic details of death but always toward providing the reader with a new experience - preparing a body for cremation, death in the woods, the dangers faced by search and rescue personnel, etc."
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