“Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you.”
—Luke 13.31
The hallmark of evil
is that it never creates, only destroys.
Evil never loves, only hates,
favors cruelty over kindness, lies over truth,
anger over mercy,
resentment over forgiveness.
Evil reaches for the curse or the sword,
and never risks its own advantage.
Easy as it is to name this in others,
how hard it is to avoid it myself.
To bless even those who curse,
to disrupt evil by creating, not destroying,
to share my advantage with those with less:
this is the great challenge.
Overcoming my own evil
uproots half the Empire’s.
Beloved, may your reign of grace
overtake the kingdom of my heart.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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