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Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep
Written by Tish Harrison Warren
Narrated by Sarah Zimmerman
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How can we trust God in the dark?
Framed around the 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: "It was this practice that gave me words for my anxiety and grief and allowed me to reencounter doctrines of the church-the church's claims about reality-not as rational, 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.
Framed around the 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: "It was this practice that gave me words for my anxiety and grief and allowed me to reencounter doctrines of the church-the church's claims about reality-not as rational, 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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Tish Harrison Warren
Tish Harrison Warren is the author of Liturgy of the Ordinary and Prayer in the Night. She is a weekly contributing newsletter writer for the New York Times and writes a monthly column for Christianity Today.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Such amazing quotes and insights collated in one place. I really liked the narrator’s voice and style too
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Really great book! Enjoyed listening to it so much, that I bought it as a gift for friends, who also really enjoyed it. I like how it show the relevance of compline in modern life, in a down to earth and friendly way.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Loved it immensely! Good content. Great narration too, enjoyed it.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is one of the best books I’ve read on prayer and suffering. Highly recommend.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5a gift of words and prayers, and pointing to our good God ❤️
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is not as good as her debut Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life ( a hard act to follow) but still very good. Warren writes about the Night Prayer - Compline - taking almost every word or small sentence for each chapter. Very good thoughts on prayer, sickness, suffering, death. The Night Prayer (Compline):Keep watch, dear Lord,with those who wake, or watch, or weep this night,and give your angels charge over those who sleep.Tend the sick,give rest to the weary,sustain the dying,calm the suffering,and pity the distressed;all for your love’s sake, O Christ our Redeemer.