A Ragamuffin Life

 (a letter to a friend): 

Ministry that consumes us completely unto ourselves..

    Last night. I watched the movie Ragamuffin. It's the Rich Mullins story, as told by his friends and family. God reminded me that I/we are not alone or so very different from each other. Though we live unworthy of His usefulness and are sometimes judged by others to be "colorful, failed or distant", we serve a God who knows us and has placed a passion, a wisdom, in each of us.. As I watched Mullins struggle with a life of desiring to serve God, many times he replaced the ministry passion with a passion for addiction. All the while, he continued to write the Lord's message and reach out to the hurting, of which he was definitely one.

    I believe, with all my heart, that I walk a very similar road to him and that you might as well. We serve a great God, and just maybe, we too are called to share the wisdom, pain, and joy of our stories. Each of us has a story to tell—a calling we cannot ignore or miss, but one that should be part of our everyday lives.

-Randy

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