ZoobalieZoo.

First of all, anyone remember this TV show from when we were little? ZoobalieZoo?
Looking back on it it was a creepy show involving people dressed up like animals and they went on futuristic adventures. I loved it at the time.

Anywho. That's not the real topic at hand here.

I had the pleasure of joining a friend and her son to the zoo a couple weeks ago. I had this random Tuesday off work, and it was a beautiful day, so it sounded like a marvelous idea.

I've had mixed emotions about this whole zoo thing for a couple years now. It basically came after spending some time in other areas of the world where the animals I typically loved at the zoo, ran free. Ergo, the zoo made me sad for the animals caged up in it; especially thinking that people were spending money on it. The whole system there was just backward to me.

But I mean, its a fun day with friends, so I went.

And it was a fabulous day, but it didn't leave me thinking any differently about the whole caged animal thing.

In fact, as I drove home that day I thought about the animals caged up, forever looking at the same walls and it made me think of us, as Americans in the daily grind. Working 9-5 at a seemingly endless job, staring at the same 4 walls, day in and day out. Bleh.

I looked at these animals caged up, lethargic to life. All their animal instincts stripped down. Everything they ever really "need" handed to them on a silver platter. I am no animal rights activist but I couldn't help that a little part of me wanted to let them free. To let them run free for miles and miles. To run and explore and to hunt their own prey.

To be all that God had created them to be.

I wonder what would happen if all those stuck in this American way of days full of cubicle sitting and aimless conversation would break free, and let their hearts run wild; their passions pour out.
What would it be like then?