The title story in Ragman and Other Cries of Faith, by Lutheran pastor Walter Wangerin, Jr., tells of a man who heals those around him by taking on their wounds and their brokenness. Like Jesus, the Ragman reaches out to others, raises them up, and frees them from their limitations so that they might work to serve their fellow human beings. The Ragman's healing of others comes at the cost of his own personal suffering. When the day is done, the Ragman goes off to be alone, dying on a garbage heap, yet rising to begin his ministry again the next day. May Jesus also lift us up, so that we, like the Ragman, might devote ourselves to lifting up others in our turn.
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