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

Prayer in the night For those who work or watch or weep

Tish Harrison Warren, 1979-

Book - 2021

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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Subjects
Faith.
Trust in God > Christianity.
Prayer > Christianity.
Compline.
Personal narratives.
Religious materials.
Prayers.
Genres
Personal narratives
Religious materials
Prayers
Published
Downers Grove, Illinois : IVP, an imprint of InterVarsity Press [2021]
Language
English
Main Author
Tish Harrison Warren, 1979- (author)
Physical Description
199 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [188]-199).
ISBN
9780830846795
  • Author's Note
  • Part 1. Praying in the Dark
  • Prologue
  • 1. Finding Compline
  • Nightfall
  • 2. Keep Watch, Dear Lord
  • Pain and Presence
  • Part 2. The Way of the Vulnerable
  • 3. Those Who Weep
  • Lament
  • 4. Those Who Watch
  • Attention
  • 5. Those Who Work
  • Restoration
  • Part 3. 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 4. Culmination
  • 13. And All for Your Love's Sake
  • Dawn
  • Acknowledgments
  • Discussion Questions and Suggested Practices
  • Notes
Review by Library Journal Review

They say timing is everything, and while Warren's (Liturgy of the Ordinary) latest work would have stood out among the many books on prayer at any time, it is particularly relevant in the age of COVID-19 when so many people find themselves working, watching, or weeping in the face of uncertainty. Warren, a priest in the Anglican Church, opens her book describing her life-threatening miscarriage. Amid the pain and confusion of the frantic treatment to stop her bleeding, Warren and her husband, also a priest, decide to pray the Compline. From the book of Common Prayer, the Compline is the last prayer of the day, designed for the nighttime to reflect on God's love and protection. Warren affirms the need for traditional, formal prayer as well as the "free form" prayer familiar to most of us. Her heartfelt treatise, arguing for the essentiality of "other peoples' words" to sustain our faith, is at once challenging and comforting, reminding us that when our world is shaken, we are strengthened by the very traditions that we tend to eschew during more certain times. VERDICT An accessible and timely book on the power of prayer.--Gail Eubanks, Univ. of Missouri, Springfield

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