Renditions Blog – Too Much Evil

We have too much evil before us, no matter its source.  

We beg and we pray for the goodness and justice and mercy from God to prevail against the apparent and inevitable triumphs of evil. 

There seems to be no immediate defeat of evil so we huddle together trying to reassure each other that in death and suffering good will somehow prevail without our witness to the defeat of evil. 

We ultimately just ask for a quick ending like the gazelle slowly eaten alive by the Lion.  We settle for the hope that justice will come some day and the Lion too will be devoured alive as well, as if this settles the question of evil in our lives. 

Evil seems so hopelessly incurable and overpowering.  We have a seemingly invincible Third Reich of Hell convincing us that we will never prevail. The poisoned barbs of evil words always seem to be shouting at us as thousands of Tokyo Rose like voices screaming into the fields of our minds and hearts. 

Fear and despair overcome us until we ourselves submit and respond in kind with our own evil acts, thereby experiencing a final illusion of victory in our lives. 

We have too much evil before us and within us. We yearn for the respite of peaceful dreams in the midst of the present nightmares. 

Insanity promises peaceful delusions of escape but we have too much evil before us and within us.