If we care enough about our garden to put up a scarecrow, can we care enough about people to do the same?

Except when it comes to dealing with people, I (not some inanimate or mechanical object) need to be the scarecrow.

I know that’s not necessarily the lesson in this part of Jesus’ parable:

“And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up” (Matthew 13:4).

But it does leave me wondering.

Why didn’t somebody guard that seed?

Why didn’t somebody see to chasing away those birds?

I posted this from Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. on November 20