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Title: Stumbling on Open Ground
Subtitle: Love, God, Cancer, and Rock 'n' Roll
Author: Ken Mansfield
Narrator: Brent Stoker
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-07-14
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity
Publisher's Summary:
Ken Mansfield writes as both a cancer and music industry survivor, vividly describing the many fragments a person tries to assemble when cancer or any other personal tragedy strikes.It's tough being a Christian when hardships strike. We're all human, and that means we're all susceptible to pain, doubt, exhaustion, anger, frustration, fear - the whole gamut of human emotions and experiences. And they all come in a swarm when you get cancer. Stumbling on Open Ground steps away from the pattern of other cancer books, Christian or secular, and attempts to tackle the question of how you can doubt a God that you do not doubt. It's about having trouble believing what is going on when you believe God knows what he is doing at all times. It is about questioning what is happening when you know where all the questions are answered.Author Ken Mansfield, former U.S. manager for the Beatles Apple Records and Dove and Grammy Award winner, takes readers into the experience in visceral, vulnerable passages that weave the ongoing spiritual struggle and physical pain with eventual triumph. Humbling and inspiring, his story forms a raw and ragged look at human suffering - one that validates our shared experiences, provokes a powerful sense of empathy, and encourages us to push into God even when it feels like God is pushing back.
Members Reviews:
From shallow celebrity to the depth of God's love in the midst of suffering
If you go through something that tests every ounce of your faith, how does it feel when it comes back with a blazing ferocity and pain beyond your ability to imagine even at the worst of your first go-round?
In the 1960s and â70s, Ken Mansfield led what some would call a charmed life, among the beautiful people. A life many would envy. But years slipped by. Sex, drugs, and rockânâroll can only take you so far. Beauty fades. Stars dim. Consequences of choices made in the flush of celebrity have consequences. Unwisely-spent wealth vanishes. Bodies break down.
Of Mansfieldâs seemingly-blessed circles, with the Beatles and later with country musicâs Outlaw movement, many are now gone and, of those gone, there were more than a few tragedies. There has been much suffering among those who thought they were invincible.
Kenâs wake-up call came in December of 1980, with the assassination of his friend, John Lennon.
It was December 1996 when his life went sideways with an unexpected diagnosis of a rare form of cancer.
In Stumbling on Open Ground, Ken Mansfield relates the pain of his battles and the beauty of his God. He made the choice from the beginning that he would trust God.
Most of us arenât acquainted with the âbrutal pain and degradationâ of the treatment for his second cancer, and we donât know the intimacy with God that can be found in the depths. In large part because we resist pain instead of accepting it â not in a fatalistic way, but as something allowed by a loving God who knows us thoroughly, is with us always, and has our true best at heart.
I found Ken Mansfieldâs faith convicting. When really itâs what Christian faith is meant to be.
Stumbling on Open Ground is a worthwhile read for anyone.