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Faithfulness Requires The Courage To Risk Everything On Jesus, The Willingness To Keep Growing, And The Readiness To Risk Failure Throughout Our Lives.

We Unwittingly Project Onto God Our Own Attitudes And Feelings Toward Ourselves... But We Cannot Assume That He Feels About Us The Way We Feel About Ourselves -- Unless We Love Ourselves Compassionately, Intensely, And Freely.

For Ragamuffins, God's Name Is Mercy. We See Our Darkness As A Prized Possession Because It Drives Us Into The Heart Of God. Without Mercy Our Darkness Would Plunge Us Into Despair - For Some, Self-destruction. Time Alone With God Reveals The Unfathomable Depths Of The Poverty Of The Spirit. We Are So Poor That Even Our Poverty Is Not Our Own: It Belongs To The Mysterium Tremendum Of A Loving God.

Trust Is That Rare And Priceless Treasure That Wins Us The Affection Of Our Heavenly Father.

In Explaining The Growth Of His Faith, Psychiatrist Gerald May Writes, "i Know That God Is Loving And That God’s Loving Is Trustworthy. I Know This Directly, Through The Experience Of My Life. There Have Been Plenty Of Times Of Doubt, Especially When I Used To Believe That Trusting God's Goodness Meant I Would Not Be Hurt. But Having Been Hurt Quite A Bit, I Know God's Goodness Goes Deeper Than All Pleasure And Pain It Embraces Them Both." Ruthless Trust, Pg 22