So often we find ourselves either asking or trying to answer for another the same question: Why is there so much evil in the world? Why does a friend die suddenly? Why does a young loved one die so early? Why? Why? Why are we confronted with evil?Isn't it part of ourselves that might fail to see goodness around ourselves? How do we fail to see what is there for us?
As I have been bussed around part of Honolulu for the last day, I have seen so much beauty not just in flowers and trees and sea and sky and water. In people as well and perhaps especially.
It is interesting to be with a number of people who are able to enjoy God's goodness to them in friends and nature. Perhaps there will always be evil, or loss, or pain in our daily experience. But, but, but: perhaps our lives would be so much rewarding if we just took the time to understand the goodness around us .... the goodness we overlook so often.
Yes, it may take a vacation to see that but there is the possibility for each of us to take a vacation each day ... some time with the Lord, some time in prayer, some time with a decade or two of the rosary. Goodness is there if we take the time to look for it.
