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Prayer in the night, for those who work or watch or weep, Tish Harrison Warren

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Prayer in the night, for those who work or watch or weep, Tish Harrison Warren

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [188]-199)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Prayer in the night

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1200832324

Responsibility statement

Tish Harrison Warren

Sub title

for those who work or watch or weep

Summary

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

Part 1. Praying in the dark. Prologue -- Finding Compline: nightfall ; Keep watch, dear lord: pain and presence -- Part 2. The way of the vulnerable. Those who weep: lament ; Those who watch: attention ; Those who work: restoration -- Part 3. A taxonomy of vulnerability. Give your angels charge over those who sleep: cosmos and commonplace ; Tend the sick, Lord Christ: embodiment ; Give rest to the weary: weakness and silence ; Bless the dying: ashes ; Soothe the suffering: comfort ; Pity the afflicted: relentlessness and revelation ; Shield the joyous: gratitude and indifference -- Part 4. Culmination. And all for your love's sake: dawn -- Discussion questions and suggested practices

Target audience

adult

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