In these tough times, we see so much struggle around us. Our loved ones are struggling, our friends, our colleagues, many are struggling with what the pandemic is bringing about outside as well as within us. And we are struggling with them.
We get to hear of the shocking, the unforeseen, the unexpected, and the magnitude of the calamity reveals itself in new dimensions every day. The sheer deluge of information is often disturbing and unsettling, raising new and deeper questions as we read about happenings around us.
In this deluge we also hear of people’s response to the struggles they are facing. So many of those responses build hope in the future of mankind, but we read about many more people who are callous, mismanaged, self-serving, or shortsighted at best, in their behavior. It is very easy for us to lose sight of the goodness of our fellow humans in this deluge of negativity. It doesn’t mean however, that the good isn’t there.
Good has always been less seen, less heard of, less spoken of, in the clamor for attention by the common Bad. It has long been known, and we need to understand too, that Good loses to Bad because it isn’t loud enough, or juicy enough, or because Good doesn’t push itself ahead like Bad does. This is the truth of this age of Kal-Yug. It is also the reason why we need to pray for Good to emerge, for Good to be stronger, to be more prevalent, and to win over the world.
We need to be discerning in the attention we pay, and in the winds of change we blow with every action of ours. We have the power to cause Good, and to encourage goodness all around us. Our power lies in our resilience, and how well we recognize, protect, and encourage Good!
May Good be with you 🙏
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