Here If You Need Me: A True Story
by Kate Braestrup
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Author: Kate BraestrupEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-07-02
ISBN: 0316066311
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Back Bay Books
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- ISBN13: 9780316066310
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Book Review: A real keeper!
Summary: 5 Stars
Kate Braestrup's happy marriage to Maine State trooper Drew Griffith came to an abrupt end one morning when he turned his cruiser around to pursue a speeder, and instead collided with a truck. He died instantly from massive internal injuries, just a few miles from their home in Thomaston. His cereal bowl from breakfast still sat in the kitchen sink, and there it stayed as Kate and their four young children dealt with their loss.
Drew Griffith had planned to become a Unitarian Universalist minister after retiring from the Maine State Police. He wanted to spend his second career as a chaplain, one who would serve law enforcement personnel. His widow found herself pursuing that dream instead. As she did so, she grappled with the terrible questions that her "parishioners" would ask her after she found her niche in ministry: that of chaplain to the Maine Warden Service.
Why would the Maine Warden Service need a chaplain? Because wardens deal with people in crisis in ways the uninitiated might not realize. In her book the Reverend Braestrup tells of caring for the grieving brother of a suicide whose body the wardens retrieve from the Maine woods. She speaks of an all-night search that tears the parents of a missing six-year-old girl to pieces, and of the values and emotions that motivate men and women in law enforcement to do work that can be as heartbreaking as it is sometimes dangerous. Why does a loving God allow evil? Especially, why does such a God allow evil things to happen to good people? Those questions Kate Braestrup had already been forced to answer for her children, and for herself, before she entered seminary. In this series of highly readable essays, she describes her ministry to a very special congregation in warmly human and sometimes darkly hilarious terms.
Uplifting, yet brutally honest in those places that demand it. A real keeper!
--Reviewed by Nina M. Osier, author of "Love, Jimmy: A Maine Veteran's Longest Battle"
Summary of Here If You Need Me: A True Story
HERE IF YOU NEED ME is the story Kate Braestrup's remarkable journey from grief to faith to happiness - as she holds her family together in the wake of her husband's death, pursues his dream of becoming a minister, and ultimately finds her calling as a chaplain to search-and-rescue workers. It is dramatic, funny, deeply moving, and simply unforgettable--an uplifting account offinding God through helping others, and of the small miracles that happen every day when a heart is grateful and love isrestored.Religious Books
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