“Mrs. Levesque will put me to use as witness, as crutch, as Kleenex, as proxy for Jean-Pierre -- a temporary substitute for all the neighbors, church folk, friends, and family members who will soon come bursting through her door to… — 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 out of the woods hand in hand with a child lost, then found. It is possible that God is my neighbor with her pan of brownies standing on my doorstep. It is entirely possible, that is,… — Kate Braestrup Copy Share
“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. It is possible that God is the way Annie Payne used to lean her old head against my shoulder, trusting me as I held her on the bedpan; Drew’s arms holding me in our fertile scent;… — Kate Braestrup Copy Share
“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
