Dream Capture

     At an adolescent age, I wanted to protect everyone, and preserve everything.  The snails my older brother would crush beneath his toes, "I still can remember the crunching in my ears, feeling the sting of tears burning my eyes as they tickled my cheeks and of course the drowned out screams of a five year old."

        My earliest memories consisted of collecting all the bugs I thought of as nice and placing them into jars with dirt and a small tree branch with leaves. So they would be safe, but at the age of five I came to a startling realization. Even with all the nourishment a five year old could provide to these little creatures! I was wrong about their life of freedom and prosperity “they are in a trap."

          Unknowingly the attempt to give them a life of peace and solitude, I had taken the only thing they had in the world, “their freedom." I would watch as the snails and black ants try to make their way  out instinctively they knew to climb, but to no avail as  heavy iron cap would stop them. One day all the bugs in the jar were not there.

           After closely inspecting the jar, I found all the animals clinging to the top of this jar. They continued to hold their position at the top of the jar, but one by one they all fell to dust. Once again I was crying but for a more grandiose reason. I only could imagine how God feels watching his children suffer a life of such decadence while not being able to intercede.

          It is but human nature to try and manufacture utopia, giving up freedom in turn. Only true divinity, that is on marred by zeal judgment, can elaborate this realization, and showing the greatest example of divinity act on it.