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Just Show Up: The Dance of Walking through Suffering Together by Kara Tippetts, Jill Lynn Buteyn
nhilton's review against another edition
4.0
A beautiful story of showing up and building community around a dying friend. Was it hard? Yes. Was it worth it? Definitely yes!
erincataldi's review against another edition
5.0
While insanely depressing, this book is important and will hopefully find its way to those in times of need. Thankfully, I don't need all the advice this book has to offer now, but I did learn some other important information and will be well prepared should tragedy strike. This book is a practical guide on how to be there for someone suffering cancer or loss or some other tragedy. It talks about how to show up, what to say and do, and how to make the greatest impact on your friend and on your soul. Written by the late Kara Tippets, a cancer patient, and her good friend Jill Lynn Buteyn this book offers good faith based and common sense advice. A must read for anyone wanting to help out others in their time of need.
I received this book for free from Litfuse publicity in return for my honest, unbiased review.
I received this book for free from Litfuse publicity in return for my honest, unbiased review.
careydnelson's review against another edition
4.0
There's a lot of emotion in this book. There's also a lot of practical tips. Most of all there are just a lot of soccer mom girlfriends all giving each other "big love" and helping "through the hard." This book reads as encouragement to develop a large network of friends more than anything else, but I still learned from these two ladies.
reneesmith's review against another edition
4.0
I was one of the many touched by Kara Tippett’s faith journey—I think especially because her life and words sparked sweet reminders of my own best friend, who died of breast cancer several years back. I was privileged to walk by my friend’s side during her vicious battle against cancer.
Those last months of our twenty year friendship changed me forever. So I’m a witness to the power of just showing up in a suffering friend’s life and how that step of faith brings blessing after blessing.
The book Just Show Up shares Kara’s journey of suffering from two perspectives: Kara’s and her friend Jill’s. Jill details how showing up for Kara changed and challenged her, along with some practical advice for those who find themselves faced with a similar privilege.
Just Show Up urges us to follow Kara Tippett’s legacy. May we abound in big love and be ever grateful for beautiful, messy life.
Those last months of our twenty year friendship changed me forever. So I’m a witness to the power of just showing up in a suffering friend’s life and how that step of faith brings blessing after blessing.
The book Just Show Up shares Kara’s journey of suffering from two perspectives: Kara’s and her friend Jill’s. Jill details how showing up for Kara changed and challenged her, along with some practical advice for those who find themselves faced with a similar privilege.
Just Show Up urges us to follow Kara Tippett’s legacy. May we abound in big love and be ever grateful for beautiful, messy life.
mustreadmore11's review
emotional
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
A good read for anyone looking for ways to improve relationships with themselves and others.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Grief, and Terminal illness
meezcarrie's review against another edition
5.0
Whether you yourself live with chronic/terminal illness or you just love someone who does, this book needs to be on your read-list ASAP.
Just Show Up is a beautifully written, heartfelt and practical look at walking through “hard” with a friend. Both Jill’s and Kara’s humor provides much needed levity in a book that begins “Hi. My name is Kara Tippetts, and I may not be alive when you read this book.” In fact, she isn’t – on earth, anyway. Kara won her hard-fought battle with breast cancer in March of this year (2015) and is now with Jesus. She completed her contributions to Just Show Up before her death, and her words carry the added weight of this poignancy, yes, but also reflect once more her delightful and grace-filled personality.
Jill's ability to admit and poke fun at her own fears and comfort zones gave me the freedom to rest in my introverting and acknowledge that growing friendship as an introvert in the middle of “hard” is indeed possible. And not even all that painful, according to Jill. Good news for introvert me. On the flip side of that coin… “The tough-love news is that introverting is not an excuse for avoiding community – although I have attempted to use it as one before.” Uhhh…yeah. Me too. So much easier just to read a book than to show up in the middle of someone else’s pain, isn’t it?
Another thing I loved so much about Just Show Up is how practical it is. We’re not just told to show up – we’re given hints on how to do that. This book is full of ideas that are relatively easy to implement – for you and the person you are serving. Things like putting a cooler on your friend’s front doorstep/porch so people can drop off meals without disrupting rest or family time. Pack an extra lunch for their child while you’re packing your own child’s lunch. And tons more! There’s also a great section about the Christian platitudes we need to stop using (seriously. If you can’t say something besides a platitude, don’t say anything at all.) and who to vent your feelings to versus who to comfort.
Now, I’m not gonna lie to you. Yes, I laughed while reading Just Show Up. But I also ugly-cried a few times. Like as soon as I started reading Kara’s introduction (I’ve already mentioned the first sentence). Every time I read Jill’s thoughts that begin her sections, the raw emotions and reactions she felt as she journeyed through “hard” with Kara, I ugly-cried. But oh my heart, it’s so worth it.
(I received a copy of this book in exchange for only my honest review.)
Just Show Up is a beautifully written, heartfelt and practical look at walking through “hard” with a friend. Both Jill’s and Kara’s humor provides much needed levity in a book that begins “Hi. My name is Kara Tippetts, and I may not be alive when you read this book.” In fact, she isn’t – on earth, anyway. Kara won her hard-fought battle with breast cancer in March of this year (2015) and is now with Jesus. She completed her contributions to Just Show Up before her death, and her words carry the added weight of this poignancy, yes, but also reflect once more her delightful and grace-filled personality.
Jill's ability to admit and poke fun at her own fears and comfort zones gave me the freedom to rest in my introverting and acknowledge that growing friendship as an introvert in the middle of “hard” is indeed possible. And not even all that painful, according to Jill. Good news for introvert me. On the flip side of that coin… “The tough-love news is that introverting is not an excuse for avoiding community – although I have attempted to use it as one before.” Uhhh…yeah. Me too. So much easier just to read a book than to show up in the middle of someone else’s pain, isn’t it?
Another thing I loved so much about Just Show Up is how practical it is. We’re not just told to show up – we’re given hints on how to do that. This book is full of ideas that are relatively easy to implement – for you and the person you are serving. Things like putting a cooler on your friend’s front doorstep/porch so people can drop off meals without disrupting rest or family time. Pack an extra lunch for their child while you’re packing your own child’s lunch. And tons more! There’s also a great section about the Christian platitudes we need to stop using (seriously. If you can’t say something besides a platitude, don’t say anything at all.) and who to vent your feelings to versus who to comfort.
Now, I’m not gonna lie to you. Yes, I laughed while reading Just Show Up. But I also ugly-cried a few times. Like as soon as I started reading Kara’s introduction (I’ve already mentioned the first sentence). Every time I read Jill’s thoughts that begin her sections, the raw emotions and reactions she felt as she journeyed through “hard” with Kara, I ugly-cried. But oh my heart, it’s so worth it.
(I received a copy of this book in exchange for only my honest review.)
mlindsey441's review against another edition
5.0
When my son was five years old, he was diagnosed with cancer. In the days and months following his diagnosis, I learned the power of "Just Showing Up." Our family would not have made it through those early months (at least with not with any sanity left) without the wonderful group of people who courageously made themselves available to do specific things for our family -- from listening, to laundry, to childcare, to just sitting and being present. We were fortunate in that we had a person who coordinated everything for us and helped those people who wanted to help but didn't know how to provide support that was truly helpful.
For those who do not have that person, Kara Tippets and Jill Buteyn can provide that same service. This is probably the most helpful, most honest, and most sensitive handbook I have seen on the how-to of Showing Up in the midst of another family's hard. The book is general enough to provide support for any sort of hard that a family is facing while also being specific enough to actually help. This is a must read book. Many of us shy away from entering into difficult times with other people -- and this book shows just how much beauty and joy and came from the painful and challenging act of being there for people who are suffering.
Buy the book, read it, and then put it on your "Keep forever Shelf" to pull out when you are presented with opportunities to be a part of another person's suffering.
For those who do not have that person, Kara Tippets and Jill Buteyn can provide that same service. This is probably the most helpful, most honest, and most sensitive handbook I have seen on the how-to of Showing Up in the midst of another family's hard. The book is general enough to provide support for any sort of hard that a family is facing while also being specific enough to actually help. This is a must read book. Many of us shy away from entering into difficult times with other people -- and this book shows just how much beauty and joy and came from the painful and challenging act of being there for people who are suffering.
Buy the book, read it, and then put it on your "Keep forever Shelf" to pull out when you are presented with opportunities to be a part of another person's suffering.
librosconcafe's review against another edition
4.0
A short book, but there is a lot of wisdom contained in it’s pages. I was hoping it dealt more with comforting those after they have lost someone. Still, it’s helpful and encouraging.