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    Beginner's Grace: Bringing Prayer to Life
    Beginner's Grace: Bringing Prayer to Life
    Beginner's Grace: Bringing Prayer to Life
    Audiobook8 hours

    Beginner's Grace: Bringing Prayer to Life

    Written by Kate Braestrup

    Narrated by Susan Ericksen

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    Chaplain Kate Braestrup, the New York Times bestselling author of Here If You Need Me, has written a compelling new book on prayer for which her devoted fans have been clamoring. Beautifully written, with her astonishing signature stories of faith in action in real life, Beginner's Grace explains how to tap into grace with prayer-as well as how to pray, when to pray, and what to pray.

    Love is Grace. You can't earn it. But you can always find it when you need it. The tried-and-true way to grace is through prayer-even through a simple "saying grace" before dinner. Yet in spite of hundreds of traditions and teachings about prayer, millions of people worldwide are unsure how to pray, or afraid they'll do it wrong, or worried that they won't be heard.

    Writing in the beautiful, honest, personal narrative style of her previous two books, Braestrup explains the many ways we can pray, including where and when to pray, individually and as a family. She includes numerous examples of prayers to draw from-beginning with grace, a brief prayer of thanks. Braestrup offers listeners prayers for situations in which their own words might fail them-from grief and loss to a request for assistance from God-and offers suggestions for making prayers more meaningful and satisfying. And she invites listeners to explore forms of prayer that extend into the wider community, including prayer for those whom we don't like and with whom we may disagree.

    Written with the insight and warmth that moved and inspired readers of Here If You Need Me, Beginner's Grace is sure to become a spiritual touchstone for people of all faiths.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateNov 2, 2010
    ISBN9781400189830
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    Kate Braestrup

    Kate Braestrup is a Unitarian-Universalist chaplain to the Forest Service in Maine who works with the search and rescue teams in Maine. Braestrup's novel, Onion, was published by Viking in 1990, her memoir, Here If You Need Me, was published by Little, Brown in 2007 and became a New York Times bestseller and won the Barnes and Noble Discover Award for non-fiction; her second memoir, Marriage and Other Acts of Charity, will be published in January 2010 by Reagan Arthur/LB. Her magazine articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Good Housekeeping, Reader’s Digest, O, The Oprah Magazine, Woman’s Day, Reader’s Digest, More, Mademoiselle, Ms., City Paper, Hope, and Law and Order.

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    • 4/5
      This was a lovely blend of memoir and spirituality without too much religion (always nice since the author is a UU minister). It made me think about prayer in a different way than I always have, and it’s given me some thoughts to create something new.
    • 3/5
      Overall, I enjoyed this book; however, I found some chapters wandered around too much and I lost track of what the author was trying to say. That said, there were several thoughtful and meaningful sections, mainly at the beginning, and, of course, a wonderful collection of the prayers she discusses at the end of the book.