Prayer in the night : for those who work or watch or weep

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    • Warren, Lutitia Harrison

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Prayer in the night : for those who work or watch or weep

Tish Harrison Warren

InterVarsity Press, [2020]

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Summary: "How can we trust God in the dark? Framed around the nighttime prayer of Compline, Tish Harrison Warren explores human vulnerability, suffering, and God's seeming absence as she recalls her own experience navigating a time of doubt and loss. This book offers a prayerful and frank approach to the difficulties in our ordinary lives at work, at home, and in a world filled with uncertainty"-- Provided by publisher

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ECPA Christian Book of the Year Christianity Today Book of the Year Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist IVP Readers' Choice Award How can we trust God in the dark? Framed around a nighttime prayer of Compline, Tish Harrison Warren, author of Liturgy of the Ordinary, explores themes of human vulnerability, suffering, and God's seeming absence. When she navigated a time of doubt and loss, the prayer was grounding for her. She writes that practices of prayer "gave words to my anxiety and grief and allowed me to reencounter the doctrines of the church not as tidy little antidotes for pain, but as a light in darkness, as good news." Where do we find comfort when we lie awake worrying or weeping in the night? This book offers a prayerful and frank approach to the difficulties in our ordinary lives at work, at home, and in a world filled with uncertainty.

Table of Contents

Author's Note Part One: Praying in the Dark Prologue 1. Finding Compline: Nightfall 2. Keep Watch, Dear Lord: Pain and Presence Part Two: The Way of the Vulnerable 3. Those Who Weep: Lament 4. Those Who Watch: Attention 5. Those Who Work: Restoration Part Three: A Taxonomy of Vulnerability 6. Give Your Angels Charge over Those Who Sleep: Cosmos and Commonplace 7. Tend the Sick, Lord Christ: Embodiment 8. Give Rest to the Weary: Weakness and Silence 9. Bless the Dying: Ashes 10. Soothe the Suffering: Comfort 11. Pity the Afflicted: Relentlessness and Revelation 12. Shield the Joyous: Gratitude and Indifference Part Four: Culmination 13. And All for Your Love's Sake: Dawn Acknowledgments Discussion Questions and Suggested Practices Notes

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