Making Everything Beautiful

My response to the news of the mass shooting in New Zealand today. What can we do in the face of such hate and violence? Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had something to say about that: "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.... The chain reaction of evil -- hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars -- must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In times like these, we must choose to be agents of love and instruments of healing. The world is hurting. It doesn't need more hate. It needs us to respond with love and light. To bring hope and compassion. To prove that love really is stronger than hate and light really can chase away the darkness. That there is goodness still alive and well in the world. "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, commi