A FOUNTAIN OF GOOD

BY ELISE L. MOORE

I received an e-mail message from a friend recently, requesting prayer for her hometown in Oaxaca, Mexico, where violence was escalating. Another e-mail came, telling of the slave trade in India. Still another talked about genocide in Darfur. One of my friends has a relative stationed in Iraq. Even as a former Sunday School student of mine was teaching English in South Korea, North Korea exploded a nuclear bomb. My niece lives in Afghanistan.

The list of worrisome, often terrifying, situations seems endless. If I believed that I was responsible for keeping everyone safe, I might shrink from—and probably sink under—the burden. But I am not responsible for the welfare of the world.

God governs the universe. When humankind strikes out in frustration or fear, God is the divine power of good that renews and restores, helps and heals, us. This divine force for good is continuously at work. And while it is not activated by our prayer, our prayer does enable us to see the activity of good in our lives. Where the materially minded see only violence and intransigent problems, the spiritually minded see solutions shining through.

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