Ebook {Epub PDF} Here If You Need Me by Kate Braestrup

 · 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 bltadwin.ru: Little, Brown and Company. 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: A True Story. by Kate Braestrup. When an out-of-control vehicle took the life of Drew, her Maine state trooper husband, Kate Braestrup's life also headed in a wildly different direction. At the time of his death, Drew was planning to attend seminary to become a Unitarian minister. After Drew's death, a grieving Kate reflected that, like so many other plans and dreams .

Here If You Need Me. Kate Braestrup, Little, Brown and Company. pp. ISBN Summary. When the oldest of Kate Braestrup's four children was ten years old, her husband, a Maine state trooper, was killed in a car accident. Stunned and grieving, she decided to pursue her husband's dream of becoming a Unitarian minister. Of the many stories Kate tells in Here If You Need Me from her role as Warden Service chaplain, which was your favorite? 3. When Kate was a child, she believed she experienced a vision of Jesus Christ from her family's car, only to find a few days later it was a fiberglass statue placed in a memorial garden. HERE IF YOU NEED ME. It is a true story. A policeman was going to study to be a UU minister. He is killed in a tragic car wreck. His widow becomes a UU minister and. Chaplain to the Maine Warden Service. Especially memorable are pages. "Arrange and rearrange the stones on top your beloved's grave.

At times sentimental due to its subject matter and at times choppy due to its episodic nature, Here If You Need Me overcomes in the long run as author Kate Braestrup chronicles her years as a chaplain for the Maine Warden Service. She confesses to many paradoxes, chief among them her love of a job that she never would have entered had she not suffered the tragedy of her state trooper husband's death. In this account of her life and the events of her unusual job - sometimes joyful, sometimes heartbreaking - Braestrup is warm, unsentimental ("No one is immune to the Plucky Widow story!" she acknowledges), and generous. Here If You Need Me is a funny, frank, and deeply moving story of faith and hope. 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.