day no. 14,638: principles provide pasture

"The chief aim of order is to give room for good things to run wild." – G.K. Chesterton, "Orthodoxy"

Fences provide freedom and principles provide pasture. Order is best expressed by freedom. 

"Boundaries are the most beautiful things in the world. To love anything is to love its boundaries; thus children will always play on the edge of anything. They build castles on the edge of the sea, and can only be restrained by public proclamation and private violence from walking on the edge of the grass. For when we have come to the end of a thing we have come to the beginning of it."

-- G.K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles (1909)

Where there is no order, there is no freedom. Chaos is not free. It can only be chaotic. It cannot choose anything. It insists that all options are optional and thus removes all weight from any choice. It gains nothing by refusing everything just as it gains nothing by refusing nothing.

JOHN 10:9
I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture.