“Ah. I smiled. I'm not really here to keep you from freaking out. I'm here to be with you while you freak out, or grieve or laugh or suffer or sing. It is a ministry of presence. It is showing… — Kate Braestrup Copy Share Image
“It is possible that God is the way Annie Payne used to lean her old head against my shoulder...Drew's arms holding me...Ron Dunham walking… — Kate Braestrup Copy Share Image
“Why are you here?” my seminary professors asked me. “You don’t really believe in God, do you?” My brother wrote. Dear professors, dear brother.… — Kate Braestrup Copy Share Image
“A marriage, willy-nilly, requires you to trust that your spouse will tell your story truthfully and lovingly when you are no longer around to… — Kate Braestrup Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Levesque will put me to use as witness, as crutch, as Kleenex, as proxy for Jean-Pierre -- a temporary substitute for all the… — Kate Braestrup Copy Share Image
“Then light your candles to the living. Say your prayers for the living. Leave the stones where they are, but take your heart with… — Kate Braestrup Copy Share Image
“All loves have much in common, and any one will offer a useful, if not painless, education in the limitations and possibilities of being… — Kate Braestrup Copy Share Image
“Ah. I smiled. I'm not really here to keep you from freaking out. I'm here to be with you while you freak out, or… — Kate Braestrup Copy Share Image
“Eventually, my heart—my fragile glass heart—would again be offered to the mortal hands of another man guaranteed to break it, one way or another,… — Kate Braestrup Copy Share Image
“I can't make those two realities -- what I've lost and what I've found -- fit together in some tidy pattern of divine causality.… — Kate Braestrup Copy Share Image
“God is love, John’s Gospel tells us. That’s a whole theology in three words. The practical application of that theology—God is love—is nearly as… — Kate Braestrup Copy Share Image
“But then, a grateful heart beats in a world of miracles. If I could only speak one prayer for you, my children, it would… — Kate Braestrup Copy Share Image
“Trooper Drew Griffith was spiritual, which is to say that he had experiences of the numinous that were both spontaneous and deliberately cultivated. He… — Kate Braestrup Copy Share Image
