"Praise the Lord at all times and ask Him to guide your course, then all you do and all you plan will turn out well"(Tob 4:19).

Friday, September 6, 2013

See a Paradise in your Valley of Tears

Good Evils: Soul making process given from God

Why there is evil and suffering? We may have asked it ourselves. What was the reflection we arrived at after a while? Different approaches would depend upon how we understand goodness especially based on our view of the world and God. Often definite nature is given to evil and accordingly we understood different sources of evil. Such identification of source of evil has led us at times to condemn the world, our own body and our very existence. Faced with the situation we also have to see the purpose of evil; mainly as seen a punishment.

Can we begin to understand the problem of evil from a different perspective which would give much more meaning to our lives? Individually and collectively we feel the brokenness of the world which was and which is of tomorrow. Not only that we bear the choice of a defective will in the past but we also enjoy the fruit of the goodwill of people live whenever in time. Seeing thus evil is not a burden but an invitation to responsibility to a mutual building. After trying to give answer in every way that we take to blame is God. When we take up the above consideration God too take His place within or although the unified history of sorrows and joys taking due responsibility and enabling humankind to grow. When we think of the meaning of evil it has to do with the degree of making possible of certain forms of life, or equally of certain individuals considered concretely. Being with and within another being is very important if we want to carve beauty out of evil. Evil is something ‘being given’ to us to shoulder it with gratitude especially when one is unable to contain it alone. One may be able to take up every evil getting into the being of another but how it is possible when someone suffers death? I try to bring alive what his/her death makes absent. This would be the call to the humankind in the face of evil: do everything in remembrance of the abundance of goodness in every being – created and uncreated - which the shadows of evil covers for some time.