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Are the Bad People Really Winning?
Love is the most most powerful force on the damn planet, so wield it like a sword and make your mark deep into the terrible things in your path.
Where’d all the good people go? I’ve been changing channels I don’t see them on the TV shows.
— Jack Johnson
At times like these it can seem like the darkness is winning.
You can look around and simply be overtaken by all that seems so not right in the world: the cruelty, the bitterness and, the rising tide of enmity that will not relent.
You can begin to sink beneath it all, wondering whether or not there are any good people still here. You can easily drown in that despair.
Take heart, dear friend.
It is not that good people are gone, it is just that too many of them have gone silent.
They, like you have watched this tragic chapter unfolding and increasingly feel they are powerless to do anything. Like you, they feel alone and hopeless and outnumbered, a product of sustained urgency and incessant threat. They too, are holding their breath and covering their…
