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MLz Quotary: Apples

MLz Quotary: Apples: “All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite ...

All badness has no real estate of its own.  That's why evil likes to invade, trespass, bully, seduce, deceive; it's trying to get something that doesn't belong to it: evil is greed, jealousy, lust, hauteur, gluttony, vengeance  even laziness is a form of false-lordship, the sloth is one who demands entitlement without contribution.

I think that most of the time evil comes tempting us in the subtle guise of moderately good things.  Again, it has no substance of its own; it has to pervert something else in order to act.

Evil is evil, no doubt about that.  And yet, thanks be to God, evil cannot prevail; furthermore, God can use ALL things together for good for those who love the Lord.

As powerful and destructive as evil is, it is yet a grace that it is not a god, it is a grace that evil is only a lie, a deceit, a shadowy perversion of something else:  the truth can overcome it.  Yes, good apples can become rotten, but rotten apples can be salvaged, pared, redeemed.

The miracle of God's Love is that Christ takes on all our rotten badness; His holy, long-suffering, perfect love purifies us and transforms us into apples that are sweeter and more glorious than we ever dreamed.


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