Friday, May 07, 2021

Prayer in the Night by Tish Harrison Warren

 



This was a Renovare Book Club read. She has some very nice practices at the end of each section, and I enjoyed doing them. We spent a whole evening without electricity that was lovely as a couple. 

Here is the blurb on the book:

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. 

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