Feeling on one end like I've been cut open and stuffed with straw. Made to be a scare crow, to stand up tall, an emblem. And yet my stuffers were shaming me for being filled with straw. You know, if you are filed with straw you could catch fire. Wouldn't you be happier if you had a different plaid shirt? Here, let me help you. Follow this scare crow list and you'll surely be a success at crow scaring. You volunteered for this position, didn't you?
Yes, the idealist-mediator-scarer not only suggested, but curated and led a brilliant charge-
icy awkwardness, phone checking, crunch, crunch, umm...good guac....the strain was heavier than the air 17 floors up, the coldness between former friends more bitter than the air. Oh, apart from the great reconciler, we are unreconciled, and unwilling. And the "idealistic," "kind," "naive," and yes, single, scarecrow can't help anyone.
"We never need doubt the love of Christ. We have plenty of solid evidence. But there may be times when we might wonder just how much Jesus delights himself in us. It is true that bearing the Father's wrath on the cross was the ultimate test of how immense Christ's love is, but our soul wants to know more. I want to know how passionately, how intensely he feels about me. Did Jesus desire to come to earth? Or was it a matter of fulfilling divine duty? The question is answered in blood. There is a word that marks the love of Christ and that word is, "excessive." His love for you overflows all reason, all expectations, all your HOPES and DREAMS...Christ's love emanates powerful emotion. For him to die for you, is for him to be delighted in you" -Joni Eareckson Tada, God's Precious Love
