School of Hard Knocks (1)

School of Hard Knocks: sko'-el  ov har-d' nok's -noun
1) An expression of vernacular slang used to describe the training one gets via life pain, negative experiences and hardships.
2) Informal education.
3) Life itself.

Ragamuffins, like me, struggle through life.  Not that we dont enjoy life to its fullness; it is just it does not come easy for us.  For some if us, our training starts before we even exit the womb.  Dad's walk out on mom's, the state takes us away, we got to foster homes, some are adopted.  Others, stay in their families, but it is not an easy life.  For others the school start sometime between grade school and high school.  Others still enter upon coming of age.

Life has beat us up pretty badly, but for those of us who know the Lord, He gives us strength to carry on.  True we might be nearly homeless gypsies serving Him.  We might not know where to call "home", if there is such a place on this planet.  We might be beaten, battered and scarred by life.  But we are here, and no matter what life's school of hard knocks keeps throwing at us,we are going to keep on showing that raging fury of God's love to those around us.  Yet as broken vessels serving Him some how He uses us to touch others in ways we can never image.  Are we ask ragamuffins really willing to let God use our journeys through the school of hard knocks to touch others?  Why or why not?

~ Morria