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Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth: Prayers of Walter Brueggemann is unavailable, but you can change that!

This thoughtful collection of prayers emerged from Brueggemann’s thirty-five years of teaching in seminaries. Full of reflection, faith, and dialogue, they reveal another side of this gifted author from what his many readers are accustomed to. These deeply felt and sparklingly articulated prayers reflect a wide range of life experiences. As readers, we are taken from the depths of pain and loss...

You brood in the night in its fearfulness, You dawn the day in its energy, You move at the edge of night into the margin of day. You live at the hinge between fear and energy. You take the feeble night and give us strong day, You take our fatigue and bestow courage, You take our drowsy reluctance and fashion full-blooded zeal. What shall we say? You, only you, you You at the hinge—and then the day. You—and then us, from you in faithfulness, us for the day, us in the freedom
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