"We are all of us mad here"

Have you ever read "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll? My faith has lead me to that classic tale recently. Of course we've all probably seen the movie, but the movie can be so distracting; the silliness, the songs, the graphics all stealing away from the story. Well surely you remember The Mad Hatter; his story was sadly cheapened, lost amidst the giddiness and whimsy. But read it now:

The poor Mad Hatter, we've had no idea how akin to him we are always having written him off as nonsense when he is infact a mirror.

The Mad Hatter believed that he had, in a way, offended Time and was therefore cursed, doomed, confined, sentenced to remain where he was doing the same thing until Time had decided the Hatter was pardoned.

It drove him mad. It drove them all mad; being stuck in the same place and time, waiting for Time himself to be appeased- waiting to be freed.

Have we not also believed that we have offended Time and thusly we are likewise sentenced to spending this life in a perpetual state of (you can fill in the blank, but I'll fill in mine with servitude and sacrifice.)

How often we damn ourselves to infinite merry-go-rounds of penitence, desperately trying, waiting, and hoping to be pardoned. We think if we slip up, we will offend Time further and possibly increase our vague sentence.

We have made ourselves busy with work that we think we must do and we are going mad for it. We keep moving round, no time to clean up, no freedom to be otherwise occupied or moved.

You may say it is still nonsense, just trifles, but even Lewis Carroll noted, "'Tut, tut, child!' said the Duchess. 'Everythings got a moral if only you can find it.'"