Wave Rider: Suffering and Spirituality

In the last eight years, author Chris Ruddle has known much pain from an unstable heart condition. Sometimes up, sometimes down, riding the spiritual and emotional waves of this time has been hard. In the midst of the struggle these poems have been born. Chris reflects on this time with poems that make you think, giving an unusal perspective on dark nights and brighter mornings. Sometimes hopeful, always brutally honest and passionate, you may find pause for thoughts in the lines within.

"This deeply personal account of daily on-going conflect, where hope and a realistic Christian faith 'with the gloves off', hit his objective sensitivity whilst battleing initial suffering and fearful despair. Through many setbacks an unsuspected advent of Hope gradually become revealed, leading to a way forward inmimbing positive signs of winning.'
Dr. Raymond Solly, DLit.,
St Lawrence College.