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.
And now, my review:
This book has numerous authors pulled together with different prayers
for those moments/times of darkness.
When you put together a book with many voices you are bound to love some
and not others. That was what I found
with this one. I loved what Tish had to
share. There are some really great
insights and sharing in there. It’s a
type of book that you can skip around with.
When I started it, I just opened it and went to a random reading. I was surprisingly disappointed. I then read another and another and was not
liking it at all. So, I put the book
down after reading quite a few. A couple
days later, I tried again. That time I
started at the beginning and loved what I read and kept going with it. I was so thankful that I tried again! Bottom-line is that I didn’t like some but for
the ones I did like, it’s well worth the read!
Pick it up and see what you think.
I received a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
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