Prayer in the Night - For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep

Prayer in the Night - For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep

Warren, Tish Harrison

InterVarsity Press

01/2021

208

Dura

Inglês

9780830846795

15 a 20 dias

370

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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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