{"id":10662,"date":"2012-03-02T06:38:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T10:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nakedpastor.com\/?p=10662"},"modified":"2012-03-02T06:38:53","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T10:38:53","slug":"who-needed-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/nakedpastor\/2012\/03\/who-needed-who\/","title":{"rendered":"who needed who?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/328\/2012\/03\/needed-you-first.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10663\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/328\/2012\/03\/needed-you-first.jpg\" alt=\"God needed us first.\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My kids and I have a little game we play. I say, \u201c<em>I love you.<\/em>\u201d They say, \u201c<em>I love you more.<\/em>\u201d \u00a0Then I say, \u201c<em>I loved you first.<\/em>\u201d Then they say, \u201c<em>Ah!!!<\/em>\u201d I always win!<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t think it was sheer science, fate or necessity that got us here. I think there was an incredible and overwhelming Compassion and even a needful Desire that birthed us into being.<\/p>\n<p>Buy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/listing\/94302420\/god-needed-you-first-print\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a print of this cartoon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Get my books, both in hard copy or kindle: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/David-Hayward\/e\/B006GARC8Q\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">CLICK HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My kids and I have a little game we play. 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