There can be evil in this good world
because in the beginning
when God said ”Let there be light”
the world was born from wanting.
Wanting can go many ways—
divorced from trusting, many bad ones.
The spark inside every evil is urge—
energy toward something,
which is movement, transformation—
which is divine.
Every evil carries the seed
of its own redemption.
All the evil in the world
is no different from mine.
It’s merely the fear
that we don’t have what we need.
But I do.
I just need to practice needing God.
When my trust overtakes my wanting,
I am on the right road.
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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