God’s Wild Children
The wild creatures who inhabit the wilderness areas of the world refuse human domination over their lives. Sometimes there are persons who are considered to be wild when they exercise freedoms that inhibit the tamed and their mimetic reality. Our most exceptional human beings are in some manner ‘wild’ exhibiting a fierce personal independence that defies the constraints of those powers that dominate and tame.
Recently, I was told my nature is to be wild that everything about me is wild and this wildness enters my intellectual pursuits, particularly in theology and biblical interpretation. I received this observation as a compliment. I suspect it was not meant to be complimentary.
The keepers of mediocrity attempt to tame God’s wild children. You can be wild and moral, wild and draw close to the Holy One. To all of God’s wild children I say you are the essential personality in a world of mediocrity. Without the adventurer who forges new paths there is no newness, no revelation, no insight that deconstructs and rebuilds a better world.
Romans 9:33
“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense; and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”
Jesus exhibits the moral wildness that disrupts the keepers of the status quo. Like an unexpected, uncut stone rising from the earth on a well trodden path the untamed soul emerges to disrupt certainty; uncut, untamed, free, and immovable are God’s gift of God’s wild children.
P.S. I wrote this with my dear wife Abi Gail L. Garner in my thoughts. She too is often told that she exhibits a moral wildness and is free from the powers of domination.
