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Overcoming violence with good
Originally appeared on spirituality.com
Many communities around the world are dealing with violence and unrest. Recently, more than 100 people died in São Paolo, Brazil, because of prison riots and outbursts on the streets. Leide Lessa, managing editor of The Herald of Christian Science, spoke with Heloisa Gelber Rivas, a teacher and practitioner of Christian Science who lives in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States but is originally from Brazil, about how prayer can help to turn rioters—wherever in the world they happen to be—in more positive directions.
From a spiritual standpoint, what do you feel the violence in Brazil and elsewhere in the world is saying to us?
It is the suggestion that God is absent or there is no God; that goodness is absent. But I like to think of the universality of God’s presence, that divine intelligence is God Himself, and that each of us—including those engaged in violence—can respond to that intelligence.
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