Goodness Will Prevail

In a world that seems at times to have surrendered to base emotion, to the temptation that puts love behind all other motivations, man does well to look about him and to measure.

Let him regard the world about him and let him consider sheer numbers. How many of those he knows, be they near or distant, are motivated by ignoble desires and utter selfishness? How many of those he knows live in contentment and love, aware always of the need to live in peace and faith in the goodness of their brothers? When this accounting is complete, man will be aware once again of the overwhelming numbers that souls devoted to the concept of living in love have over those who have chosen lives of self -aggrandizement and disregard of their brothers.

Thus bolstered, man has good cause for optimism. He has reason to believe that goodness and grace by their very strengths will triumph and that those souls lost to greed and uncaring will know the bitterness of defeat.

Man must be patient in this reckoning. All too often time passes without clear affirmation of the triumph of those souls devoted to goodness over all those forces arrayed against them. Yet there is no impatience in awaiting this victory, for however tortured the course of history, however many setbacks and defeats the forces of good will know, the end is at all times predictable. Right will triumph. Goodness will prevail. Love will be the law of the land, and all will rejoice in the infinite blessings that love affords.

This is no idle dream. This is no fictional utopia. This is the world to come, and in its perfection man will find perfect peace.