Cut Me Some Slack

"I miss them so much I go crazy," said William. "I start thinking I'm going to disappear, you know, just vanish, if I'm not home. Sometimes I worry their love is the only thing that makes me human, you know? I think if they stopped loving me, I might burn up, spontaneously combust, and turn into little pieces of oxygen and hydrogen and carbon." Ten Little Indians by Sherman Alexie

From a sermon from a Praise Night: Be a thermostat and not a thermometer, for a thermometer tells the temperature of the room, but a thermostat changes the temperature.