I you think you've done it, then you're wrong. Because you're not finished until you have achieved everything that you never thought you could.

The ragamuffin gospel reveals that Jesus forgives sins, including the sins of the flesh; that He is comfortable with sinners who remember how to show compassion; but that He cannot and will not have a relationship with pretenders in the Spirit.

Christianity happens when men and women accept with unwavering trust that their sins have been not only forgiven, but forgotten, washed away in the blood of the Lamb. Thus, my friend archbishop Joe Reia says, "A sad Christian is a phony Christian, and a guilty Christian is no Christian at all.

We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God.

It is for the inconsistent, unsteady disciples whose cheese is falling off their cracker.

How glorious the splendor of a human heart that trusts that it is loved!

A ragamuffin knows he's only a beggar at the door of God's mercy.