Evil has only one small power:
to destroy.
It’s not really power,
just fear with practice.
Evil can take down towers,
but it can’t raise a single one.
It can frighten but not teach,
it can wound but not lead,
it can destroy but not create.
It can cause sorrow,
but it can’t move the world forward.
It can only destroy.
So can, by the way, a germ.
It is no great power.
You need not save the world from evil.
Merely live gently with hope,
create beauty, spread love,
give of yourself even in the face of fear,
and evil with all its small terrors
will be outdone.
Even a massacre is not as great a thing
as a child’s drawing.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
September 11, 2019