Be the Light: Overcoming Evil with Good

After the murders of twenty elementary school children and six adults in Newton, Connecticut on Dec. 14, 2012, NBC News Correspondent Ann Curry offered a shocked and heartbroken nation a positive way to direct their kindled energy, suggesting people perform twenty-six acts of kindness in memory of the victims. The reason for this short ebook is to try to keep the love flowing beyond this one incident in Connecticut.


     The world needs a functional and long term method for responding to evil rather than thinking revised laws or greater firepower will prevent imbalanced people from hurting others. Darkness has never gotten rid of darkness. All the spiritual traditions of the world have suggested the appropriate response to evil is with goodness or love, but few people have adopted or promoted goodness as their chosen method.


     The author highlights various sayings from the wisdom traditions, redefines evil in terms of immaturity or lack of development of individuals, and gives examples of random acts of kindness that a person can use to become an agent for change in the world.