overcoming evil

“No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ultimately self-destructive. Evil may set out to corrupt others, but in the process corrupts itself.”

                                              John Connolly, The Infernals

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Evil is evil

And by its very nature is destructive

Evil feeds on others, yes

But it also feeds on itself

Gnawing and chewing

Consuming

Eroding

Eventually evil implodes

Unsustainable

We who would fight evil should remember

How tempting it is to draw close to evil

To fight fire with fire

Evil with evil

Hate with hate

Rejection with rejection

How easy it is to believe that we are fighting evil

When we are simply becoming evil

Slipping without notice

From being victims

To becoming active accomplices

This is why Jesus, fighting the evil forces

Of power lust

And greed

Died

This is why we are admonished

To refuse to overcome evil with evil

But to overcome evil with good

It is not a lesson, we

When faced with evil find easy to learn

It is not a lesson we want to learn

But if we go deep, and ask our hearts

If we go deep and commune with the present Sacred

We will know the right

And we have the power to choose between good and evil

Let us choose good

and know that our choice has made a difference...