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Thursday, March 17, 2011

Episode 9: March 17 - Freedom

Freedom!
What a hell of a gift!

Why, God?
Why that awful gift?
Why a gift that enables us to
--go in the wrong direction
                  until we are totally lost?
--waste our lives in a
                  million different ways?
--completely destroy ourselves
                  if that is our choice?
--make such a mess of our lives
                  there aren't even any pieces
                  to put back together?

Why a gift that enables us to
--hurt other people so much
                  when they need to be helped?
--use and misuse those who
                  are close to us?
--take advantage of people
                  when they are vulnerable?
--walk on people with total
                  disregard for their feelings?
--cut people up and throwaway
                  the pieces?
--make such a mess of other lives
                  there aren't even any pieces
                  to put back together?

Why did you give us a gift
that enables us
--to turn our backs on you?
--to take all your gifts and
                  use them for our own selfish
                  purposes?
--to stab you in the heart by
                  all our cruelty to one another?
--to go to hell
                  when you made us for heaven?

When I consider
all the gifts you have to give,
I can only ask why, God.
Why did you give us a gift
that allows us to create so much hell
for ourselves
for others
and for you?

Is it the only way
you could give us the gift of love?

Love means nothing
unless it is given freely.
Love is not love unless
we are free not to love.
We could not share the gift of love
without the gift of freedom.

But why, God?
Why do we take this gift
that was given
so we might discover
that which is most beautiful
that which is most meaningful
and use it to cause
so much pain
so much ugliness?

Freedom!
It's a hell of a gift!

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