Removing mountains of evil

By Tony Lobl

"I watched with intense gratitude as the military regime gave way to a civilian government without further bloodshed."

Although I lived in Europe, it was a country a thousand miles away that held my attention at one time. The country had already experienced a horrific mass execution during an earlier period of political turmoil. Now people were regularly "disappearing" at the hands of the ruling military regime. A book I read and a movie I saw about the nation's difficulties intensified my feelings of helplessness, futility, and deep sorrow.

Some people were moved to get politically involved. Yet political action didn't feel like my calling. For quite a while I just felt hopeless. All this evil was so vividly real to me. I was afraid of it, convinced of its supremacy.

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