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"This is a book I wrote for myself and anyone who has grown weary and discouraged along the Way." - Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel[P1] Many of us believe in grace, yet we live as if we still have to earn God's love. We picture God hanging His head in disappointment, tallying our successes and failures on a score sheet. We assume we have to do more, or be a different person, for God to be pleased with us. Brennan Manning shows us a different, truer image of our relationship with God: We come to God as ragamuffins. Bedraggled, dirty, exhausted. But as we sit at God's feet, He smiles upon us. He embraces us. He treats us not as failures but as the chosen objects of His love. In this twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Manning's classic meditation on grace, Manning reminds us that we don't need to apply spiritual cosmetics to make ourselves presentable to God.