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

How can we trust God in the dark? Framed around the nighttime prayer of Compline, Tish Harrison Warren explores human vulnerability, suffering, and God”s seeming absence as she recalls her own experience navigating a time of doubt and loss. 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.

Part I: Praying in the Dark
Prologue
1. Finding Compline: Nightfall
2. Keep Watch, Dear Lord: Pain and Presence

Part II: The Way of the Vulnerable
3. Those Who Weep: Lament
4. Those Who Watch: Attention
5. Those Who Work: Restoration

Part III: 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: Silence and Weakness
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 IV: Culmination
13. And All for Your Love’s Sake: Dawn