Name: Praying the Dark Hours
Price: 16.12 GBP
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Author: Jim Cotter
ISBN: 9781848251090

Jim Cotter has a rare gift with words that enables him to write prayers that engage the heart and imagination as well as the mind. Here the ancient and beautiful language of night prayer is infused with fresh and striking imagery about God. Simple prayers, Psalm paraphrases and short readings for reflection open us to the mystery of God - a mystery to which we are more open at night, or when we are facing our own dark places. At night we face many things that are kept at bay by the day's distractions. Praying the Dark Hours is a combination of two bestselling titles previously published by Jim Cotter under his own Cairns imprint: Prayer at Night and Waymarks, which together sold over 25,000 copies. This new edition offers structured prayer for each night of the week, based on the traditional pattern of Compline, woven together with scriptures and a short reflective reading for each day of the year and further selections for the Christian seasons.

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Two books, Prayer at Night and Waymarks, are here presented in one volume. The first is an evening prayer office that maintains the traditional structure of compline while employing a greater variation of language and imagery. “Prayer in the night is different to prayer in the day,” the foreword reminds us, “it requires a naked exposure before God.” These prayers are designed to be suitable either for congregational use, or for private devotion, and the layout is liberally spaced to encourage selah-style (stop and listen) pauses for reflection. “If you make alterations” the author reassures us, “you are making your own contribution to the living prayer of God’s people, not desecrating an ancient monument.” The Waymarks half of the book contains a thought for every night of the year, contributions to the kind of questions that arise during the troubled musings of sleepless nights. “Words well crafted can create a temporary sacred space for truth, compassion, light, meaning, protected from the encroaching falsehoods, cruelty, darkness, disintegration,” says one of them, and this is an excellent description of the book itself. There is something here for every Christian, regardless of denomination. Recommended

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