Article August 12, 2013 Issue

Good is natural

Cindy Clague

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. 

—Jeremiah 29:11

How often we find ourselves thinking or hearing, “It’s too good to be true!” Or someone will quote Murphy’s Law, “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.” The mass media hourly report conflict, disaster, and crime as normal. Even the pervasive belief that sickness can be catching, while no one gives much thought to health being catching, is a species of the idea that evil is more natural than good.