Absorb It

 I know many people who have taken the boat trip along the Danube as tourists.  They tell me how beautiful a trip it was.  But that beauty covers up evil.  The Nazis used to take people to the Danube, strip them, shoot them and dump their bodies into the river.  The remains are still at the bottom.  But evil did not have the last word.  In time, the Danube became beautiful especially in the those who had no memory of WWII.  Sometimes I experience evil and like the Danube, I am challenged to absorb it and in time to respond with beauty, the beauty of a life full of love, acceptance, service, selflessness.  A spiritual path is a way to not allow evil to overwhelm us such that we become the evil in ourself.