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Search - Here If You Need Me: A True Story
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Book Description:
Ten years ago, Kate Braestrup and her husband Drew wereMembers who requested this book also requested:
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.
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Lester M. (
8 member(s) found this review helpful.
The author is a widow with four children, and after her husband's death, she became a Unitarian Universalist minister and chaplain to Maine wildlife officers. The book is a series of stories bound lightly by her understanding of God, which she explains with an alternate selection of the Greek work "logos" which is usually translated as "word." Her alternate version of John 1:1 is "In the beginning was the story, and the story was with God, and the story was God."
This isn't a preachy book; she is not pushing her agenda or her beliefs upon you. She simply answers, with honesty and not a little humor, two questions: What on earth would the wildlife officers of Maine need a chaplain for? Where is God in the midst of unbearable tragedy?
Where do we find God in these stories of tragedy? In the love. She asks you to find the love in the tragedy and to throw yourself into the arms of the love, for the love will surely catch you.
Highly recommended.
Sandra D. (
4 member(s) found this review helpful.
Funny and sad. Braestrup is a woman I would like to know and have as a friend. A widow at a young age with children, she follows her late husband's dream of becoming a chaplain by actually becoming one herself. She heals her sorrow by helping others. A great book.
Jennifer W. (
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
This was a really great read! Although not outwardly religious, I find it exciting to read about those who live their lives trying to follow God's plan. For Ms. Braestrup, that involves working as the chaplain for a group of Wildlife Search and Rescue Operatives.
This book isn't just about religion -- it's about the author's desire to both follow her heart and honor her deceased husband's dream, and about helping others in the only way she knew how.
Very encouraging and uplifting, this is basically just an all-around good read.
Jane K. (
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
This book gripped me from the first page, and held me through the entire book. It reads more like a set of short stories, where in each one she remembers an incident she worked on and ties her personal faith into the discussion. The crux, where is God in the midst of human tragedy? Some stories will lift you up, others will bring tremendous sadness, but what you will feel is how she helps people, most of the time by simply being there.
Between her discussions of faith without being preachy and the fascinating look into the work of the work of the Game Wardens, it quickly became a favorite non-fiction read for me. I highly recommend this book.