Just Show Up

The Dance of Walking Through Suffering Together

By: Kara Tippetts, Jill Lynn Buteyn

Narrated by: Carla Mercer-Meyer

Kara Tippetts's story was not a story of disease, although she lost her battle with terminal cancer. It was not a story of saying goodbye, although she was intentional in her time with her husband and four children. Kara's story was one of seeing God in the hard and in the good. It was one of finding grace in the everyday. And it was one of knowing "God with us" through fierce and beautiful friendship.

In Just Show Up, Kara and her close friend, Jill Lynn Buteyn, write about what friendship looks like in the midst of changing life seasons, loads of laundry, and even cancer. Whether you are eager to be present to someone going through a difficult time or simply want inspiration for pursuing friends in a new way, this eloquent and practical book explores the gift of silence, the art of receiving, and what it means to just show up.

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Just show up

It was great it had a indepth story about love and pain . So loved the ending!!

wonderfulness

for all of us that are walking through hard and all of us that are not .

Becoming a God Mother because of cancer

I loved the courageous spirits who fought this battle, how they banded together to create family, supported each other, ebbed and flowed together, and gave more than practical tips on how to fight this battle together. Whether beating to remain with family for more years or defeating it in Heaven's glory 'Just Show Up' is a valuable resource and comfort. If you are fighting cancer or know and love someone who is this is a mist read.

For those who are afraid to grow community

This is a very inspiring book about "big love" as Kara puts it. About growing community amidst doubts, fears and incompetence. About not having all the answers. We were created to be relational and yet so many of us do not have those deep relational needs met in our churches. This book written about how a community of "big love" came about through the suffering of one person will encourage you to want what God gave them as each person took that step forward to be used to God's glory. There are many, many examples and ideas in the book of how to support and help someone who is suffering. Ideas that would help someone like myself, who is often unsure of what to do, to take a step forward and show up. I would highly recommend this book to everyone, but especially those who have a loved one going through a hard trial and also, yes, also those who are going through the trial. Because it is also about how to suffer well and let people in allowing God to build community through your hard. The only draw back was I do wish they had done the audio with different voices for Jill and Kara. There were a few times I was confused as to which of the two was writing. If they had I would have given it a straight up 5 stars. Even so it is a book I will listen to again when the next need arises amongst my friends and acquaintances.

Raw and beautiful. They’re not afraid of talking about death.

I’m really thankful that I picked up this book. I think this message is going to stick with me for a very long time, perhaps even my whole life. I want to be someone who lives life well, loves other people well, and dies well.

A couple of things that really stood out to me: the woman who was vulnerable enough to share that she felt left out a lot and the contentedness of the woman who knows she is dying and leaving her children and husband and friends behind. This is not something that we as Christians should be surprised about. We should be really good at loving people well in the Spirit. Unfortunately, I am doing it out of my own strength usually and feel exhausted.