
Stumblings
Keith Ravenscroft
‘Better to have questions you can’t answer than answers you can’t question.’
The author describes these poems as ‘stumblings’ because they are stumbling attempts to understand what can seem beyond understanding. In his writing he confronts the issues that are inescapably a part of being human, as he sees them playing out in the maelstrom of his own life. He takes us into areas of desperation, confusion, even despair, but also of acceptance, fulfilment, ecstasy, obstinate faith, and above all of tender love.
The poems range widely through philosophical musings, urgent questioning about what it is to be human, irony, self-mockery, overwhelming passion – and always with an intensity that acknowledges that everything matters, everything has meaning if only we could decode it. And throughout this volume the writer attempts to comprehend and reach the elusive God who he believes in but fails so comprehensively to connect with as deeply as he longs to.
Any readers who are prepared to stumble with the writer on this poetic journey through life may find themselves in a place where they can at least begin to understand, accept, and even glory in their imperfect humanity as the writer does. And maybe hope to stumble into Grace, enlightened and affirmed.
Duration - 1h 38m.
Author - Keith Ravenscroft.
Narrator - Jonathan sims.
Published Date - Wednesday, 15 January 2025.
Location:
United States
Networks:
Keith Ravenscroft
Jonathan sims
Austin Macauley Publishers
English Audiobooks
INAudio Audiobooks
Description:
‘Better to have questions you can’t answer than answers you can’t question.’ The author describes these poems as ‘stumblings’ because they are stumbling attempts to understand what can seem beyond understanding. In his writing he confronts the issues that are inescapably a part of being human, as he sees them playing out in the maelstrom of his own life. He takes us into areas of desperation, confusion, even despair, but also of acceptance, fulfilment, ecstasy, obstinate faith, and above all of tender love. The poems range widely through philosophical musings, urgent questioning about what it is to be human, irony, self-mockery, overwhelming passion – and always with an intensity that acknowledges that everything matters, everything has meaning if only we could decode it. And throughout this volume the writer attempts to comprehend and reach the elusive God who he believes in but fails so comprehensively to connect with as deeply as he longs to. Any readers who are prepared to stumble with the writer on this poetic journey through life may find themselves in a place where they can at least begin to understand, accept, and even glory in their imperfect humanity as the writer does. And maybe hope to stumble into Grace, enlightened and affirmed. Duration - 1h 38m. Author - Keith Ravenscroft. Narrator - Jonathan sims. Published Date - Wednesday, 15 January 2025.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:12
About the Author
Duration:00:01:06
Dedication
Duration:00:00:17
Acknowledgements
Duration:00:00:20
Introduction
Duration:00:02:02
As Though I Have My Life to Live Again
Duration:00:01:42
Brusting into Light
Duration:00:01:44
Iambic Agonies
Duration:00:01:14
A Way of Happening, a Mouth
Duration:00:01:39
800 Years
Duration:00:01:49
It's Only the Music that's Crying, Not Me
Duration:00:02:21
Running Out of Room
Duration:00:01:36
'Every Word Is a Unnecessary Stain on Silence'
Duration:00:02:01
A Dying Fall: Relections on the French Baroque
Duration:00:01:28
It's a Long Way to Eternity
Duration:00:01:37
Beyond All Imagining
Duration:00:03:17
A Doorway into Thanks
Duration:00:02:00
Living in the Shadows of My Mind
Duration:00:01:50
Fiding a Soul
Duration:00:03:01
The Problems of Theology
Duration:00:00:38
Beyond Words
Duration:00:02:34
Nothing LEft
Duration:00:01:14
Out of Sight, Out of Mind?
Duration:00:01:09
On Christmas Even
Duration:00:00:50
Old Bach
Duration:00:01:37
Noli Me Tangere
Duration:00:01:55
My Chance at Love
Duration:00:01:08
A Kind of Pleading
Duration:00:01:35
'I Think you're Somebody I Used to Love'
Duration:00:00:51
Siren Voices
Duration:00:01:22
Outer Darkness Inner Light
Duration:00:03:38
Now but Not Yet
Duration:00:01:35
Night Thoughts
Duration:00:02:21
Not Enough
Duration:00:01:32
Mocking Ourselves with Falsehood
Duration:00:01:52
'That Yonder'
Duration:00:01:47
The Body and the Blood
Duration:00:01:34
Sorrow and Love
Duration:00:02:01
The Eternal Now
Duration:00:01:39
The 'I' that Isn't 'You'
Duration:00:02:13
The Gift
Duration:00:01:04
Stranded Between Worlds
Duration:00:03:40
What I Started to Say
Duration:00:02:02
Funeral of a Solipsist
Duration:00:02:12
'You Are the Journey and the Journey's End'
Duration:00:01:57
Yesterday's Words
Duration:00:01:20
Waiting on God
Duration:00:01:03
Up Here, Down There
Duration:00:00:46
Wandering Through the Dark Night of the Soul
Duration:00:01:42
The Ground of Their Beseeching
Duration:00:02:14
Returning to the Light
Duration:00:01:29
These Dear Last Days
Duration:00:00:52
The Sound of Sanity
Duration:00:03:02
Your Will Not Mine
Duration:00:00:59
You Can't See Me Cry
Duration:00:01:25
I, Who Wasn't. Am, and Yet May Be
Duration:00:01:16
Walking in Heaven
Duration:00:01:54
You Never Prayed to Me
Duration:00:01:33
The Still Small Voice That Calls Us Home
Duration:00:01:46
Closing Credits
Duration:00:00:12