“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 simple. Be as loving as you can, as often as you can, for as many people… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
