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G-Pop’s grandson was a bit spooked by the notion of evil coming from the hearts of humans, so G-Pop continued his discussion with a little more sensitivity toward a little boy’s tender consciousness.
“Let’s put it this way,” said G-Pop. “If evil is out of our control, then who’s to say that goodness is available for us to choose?
The power in life is in having power in your life.
If the devil can defeat you and the angels have to rescue you, you kind of become the classic damsel, constantly in distress. So here’s where evil comes in:
- Our appetites. We’re just too hungry.
We keep looking for adventure. And the more advertised forms usually involve risk or deceit.
Our true adventure is life. And when we screw it up the first time, fortunately for us, we usually have another chance to revisit the location with a better travel plan.
Our appetites drive us to do stupid things. It’s good to be hungry, but just as we adjust our physical diet to include nourishing portions, we should do the same with our emotional, spiritual and mental buffet.
- Our second problem is ego. It’s when we are too selfish.
There is certainly nothing wrong with loving yourself if you make sure to leave enough time to grant your neighbor the same courtesy. But if you believe you must destroy, out-flank, cheat or curse your brothers and sisters to get your portion, you will eventually hatch some form of evil.
- And finally, there’s delusion. ‘I’m too important.’
Finding our true worth is our greatest achievement. Otherwise we start thinking we’re more valuable than we really are, making us pompous, or less valuable, which causes us to become defensive over our deteriorating worth.
This allows delusion to come to the forefront. We convince ourselves that we have a greater capacity than we can prove, and become quite infuriated when anyone challenges our assessment.
When our appetites make us too hungry and our egos cause us to become selfish, then our delusion makes us insist that we are primarily important.
There you have the formula for evil.
Goodness is when we let our appetites lure us to righteousness, our egos make us generous to the needs of others and our delusion is eliminated because we know exactly who we are and who we aren’t.”
G-Pop finished explaining this to his grandson. Amazingly, the little fella appeared to understand.
He turned and said, “I think I’ve got it, G-Pop. Don’t eat too much of anything.”
G-Pop smiled.
A pretty good analysis.
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