In the Darkness Light Shines

It occurred to me as I was watching the news on the Boston Marathon bombing today that it is always against the backdrop of humanity's darkest actions that the light of  kindness and love that we are also capable of shines brightest. In every tragedy I have seen, while there seems to be an incomprehensible evil behind what has taken place (9/11, the Sandy Hook Shootings etc.) there is also an incredible sense of the bond of humanity shares that blows away all our trivial separations and immediately binds us together in the face of such events. As I've been watching the news today, I keep seeing pictures of strangers helping strangers and people staying for hours with a stranger they just met to help them through the  crisis...incredible. People serving for hours and hours with no regard for themselves. I am moved. What strikes me is that the evil behind this doesn't comprehend that they never win. Never. Every blow they strike serves to show the resilience of the human spirit. Good WILL always triumph over evil. Because we are in the image of God and we operate out of that whether we get it or not; people will work redemptively in the face of evil. Always. Whoever these people are behind this...they just don't get it. We will prevail. We always do. Hatred dies and is buried with the hater. Love lives on and its legacy never dies. One of my new favorite verses in Scripture is I Corinthians 15: 26 "And the last enemy to be destroyed is death." Death will die. It will be defeated and we will be there to see it. II Timothy 1:10 says "And now he has made all of this plain to us by the appearing of Christ Jesus, our Savior. He broke the power of death and illuminated the way to life and immortality through the Good News." There is still Good News. No matter how hard they try, that Good News is still Good and still True.