Taming the Untamed

It has been a while since I wrote anything down. Last night I watched the movie “Hidalgo” about a man and his horse. Both of them were wild and untamed. The part that is bothering me is the brutality of people toward things which are wild and live in the world for whom and what they are. It amazes me that allowing something to BE is such a dangerous thing. Why do we actually believe God’s desire in our invitation to “subdue” the earth He actually meant? Take everything wild and tame it. Take every “wild” thing and make it into a household pet? That is what we actually believe. We believe our job to “subdue” means to pull under our control, and everyone who does not live like that must be contained.

(random thought from 3.21.05. When God told them to subdue they were perfect beings, not lacking anything. Not lacking any emotional support, spiritual support, or physical support. God Himself, His Spirit united with their Spirit, was all they needed. Is the way a man would subdue, when all His needs are provided for different from how he would when his source of life was now gone? When all your needs are provided for, do you act different?)

Don’t believe me, why do Indians now live on reservations? Because Western civilization was too arrogant to change their lives to fit those who were living the IN the world God created, using what they needed but not taking all that was in it for their own comforts. Instead they made one that was “more comfortable” to them because THEY controlled it.

I do not think anything is more terrifying to most people than them not being in control, or seem to be in control of their own lives. That is why God has become “god” in a box, powerless, tamed and controlled by out prayers, will and ideas. We have even created for ourselves a false god, and given it the same name as the original.