Psychologists tell us we cannot have or enjoy good without evil. In fact one says “evil is simply the absence of good!”
Whatever we believe the presence of evil happenings in our world over the past few weeks has been alarming.
Evil weather events in the form of hurricanes and earthquakes like we not seen before. Mass shootings so common now that the killing of three people in Lawrence over the weekend barely made national news only to be forgotten by the events in Las Vegas; and rhetoric from people of all sorts that’s so divisive we can hardly listen.
Thankfully, Jamie Reever our local United Way President offered some relief on Face Book by sharing a short poem written by Langston Hughes, a black man born in Joplin, Missouri who actually passed away in 1967 that says it all for me.
The title is Tired.
As Jamie explained to me she is “just tired of all the evil in our world today.”
Here’s Tired by Langston Hughes:
I am so tired of waiting,
Aren’t you,
For the world to become good,
And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two –
And see what worms are eating
At the rind.
I think that’s worth hearing again:
Tired by Langston Hughes:
I am so tired of waiting,
Aren’t you,
For the world to become good,
And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two –
And see what worms are eating
At the rind.
I’m Steve Sauder.
