Good and Evil

If you are like most conscious Americans, the days since midterm elections have seemed like a bad dream. It is easy to become despondent while we watch everything noble and virtuous about our great nation, painstakingly won over the years, be tossed upon the bonfire of greed, vengeance and war. Yet good will come from this, as distant and indistinct a possibility as this may seem.

Evil thrives in the absence of goodness. It exists to motivate goodness into action. When good people become complacent through long periods of peace and prosperity, evil surfaces in all of it's flaming and destructive glory to stimulate change. We are about to become highly motivated.

The interplay of good and evil is a tapestry. One force does not exist independent the other - each weaving it's own patterns and textures into the fabric of our existence. When we lament the murders of good men, the criminal behavior of our leaders, and the fraud now rampant in our electoral system, this should provide the motivation for us to wake up from our comfortable slumber and continue weaving goodness into the fabric of our world.

For those of us that have seen these changes coming for many years, it is almost a relief. We know the final outcomes will be glorious beyond our comprehension, even though the processes necessary to get there will be truely dreadful. Birth seldom comes painlessly, and our species is poised on the threshold of evolutionary leaps that stagger the imagination.

To make such dramatic changes in ourselves requires great motivation. Evil always provides this stimulus.
Have faith brothers and sisters. The outcome is inevitable and justifies the means.

Lightman