"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Praying in the dark. Prologue -- Finding Compline: nightfall ; Keep watch, dear lord: pain and presence -- The way of the vulnerable. Those who weep: lament ; Those who watch: attention ; Those who work: restoration -- A taxonomy of vulnerability. Give your angels charge over those who sleep: cosmos and commonplace ; Tend the sick, Lord Christ: embodiment ; Give rest to the weary: weakness and silence ; Bless the dying: ashes ; Soothe the suffering: comfort ; Pity the afflicted: restlessness and revelation ; Shield the joyous: gratitude and indifference -- Culmination. And all for your love's sake: dawn -- Discussion questions and suggested practices.