Prayers from the Breaking: What We Whisper in the Dark at 3am

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What do you pray when the truth sounds too ugly to say out loud?

A child asks God to let her parents divorce. Someone who abandoned faith decades ago starts praying in a hospital waiting room. A mother asks for mercy as her child suffers. Elsewhere, people confront addiction, poverty, racism, loneliness, betrayal, and the exhaustion of always having to be strong.

In Prayers from the Breaking: What We Whisper in the Dark at 3am, Serenite Hope gives voice to 25 intimate, first-person prayers spoken at moments when life feels unbearable.

Some voices are furious. Others are ashamed, frightened, doubtful, or desperate. Each carries a truth too raw to polish for a congregation or share across a dinner table.

These prayers are left unanswered. Their stories end in the uncertainty of the moment, without tidy miracles or instructions for how to move on. The book invites you to sit beside people whose private conversations with God sound uncomfortably human.

For anyone who has whispered something in the dark that they would never dare pray aloud, these pages offer company in the breaking.