Good and Evil

As I was reading the book 'Left to Tell' a lot of things became clear to me. I felt Immaculee's inner anguish tearing at her. There was a part of her that wanted to wreak revenge on her parents killers but there was another part that told her that this was not the 'right' thing to ask for as it would take her further away from God. In the end she overcame her own 'demons' and chose to listen to her 'angels' instead. The struggle she went through is common to all. This is the great battle between the light and the dark, the
demons and the angels, God and Satan. We all have the 'good' and the 'bad' sides to us and we struggle with it daily. When we choose to empower the bad side we feel miserable and disconnected from God. It is not God who has forsaken us but our own bad choices that have
caused us to feel separate from God. God gave us free will to live and learn and we are free to choose good or bad. In the end it is not God who judges but we are our own judge and jury. God does not see good or bad. Good or bad only exists in duality and separation. God is wholly
good and evil does not exist where God is. Then the question arises where did evil spring from. The answer is just as simple. Evil came into existence where God was not and where God was not was when we chose to believe in an existence that was separate from God and
created an identity that was separate from God. We are the drops in the ocean of God not realizing that we are part of the ocean and dreaming that we are a small puny drop all alone unto ourselves. Thus do we cut ourselves off from the vast strength of the ocean. We exist in a self created delusion. In this delusion of separation arises the possibility of good and evil since that is the very nature of duality. If we knew oneness the possibility of evil would not exist because in oneness there can be no evil to perpetuate as being evil requires the existence of another to whom the effect can be perpetuated. Love can know no evil simply because love unifies and evil separates. Hence evil is a creation of the delusion of man. Once the duality is overcome within one self through the process of self purification then the evil vanishes along with it. This is the journey that all must undertake. No one shall know God unless one sees and knows no evil. Such a one is free of all fears and sees all with an equal eye knowing all to be children of God and loving all equally.

This is exactly the path Imaculee chose to follow when she forgave the killers of her family and looked beyond the evil they had perpetuated and saw that they were indeed children of God who had gone deep into the delusion of separation. She understood the evil that they had brought upon themselves and knew that their souls had a long journey ahead of them to come back into oneness. She saw through the eyes of God and saw only the purity of their souls that was still buried deep within them hidden from view by the layers of evil that they had perpetuated.

God only sees the truth and the truth is that all are his children and all our wholly good. Only in separation they have deluded themselves into believing otherwise.

The correct way to view people who have perpetuated evil is with compassion for only God knows the untold sufferings that they must endure to be able to merge back with God again who is their only source of happiness and who will never forsake them even though they have forsaken him.

May God bless Rwanda and all the people therein that one day they may learn to forgive each other and may their hearts be cleansed of hatred and filled instead with the understanding of God that allows one to heal and love and become whole again.