Great Guys Help Good Happen

I know good happens. I know many if not most of us know it, too. A benevolence exists and shows up. The Latin derivation of benevolence is good flies in, good happens. I don’t have to believe good happens because I have witnessed it time and time again. I know it.

What happens when we name it? God, Jesus, Muhammad, Allah? Religion makes its way in. The pretense to know God. And with it an agenda: merciful, forgiving, omniscient, omnipresent, worship, sin, Original sin, guilt omni-powerful, God’s plan, heaven, hell, fire and brimstone. Good ends up taking a rear seat.

What if benevolence exists without ego? Like the father in the parable of the Prodigal Son, who welcomes his son home without recrimination or forgiveness, just acceptance.

What if the higher power is all of us? If we must answer, be accountable, then, why not to the whole? As human beings, why not be humane, kind?

Good happens. Not always. Not to all the most deserving. When it doesn’t, that isn’t an indication of a higher plan. Misfortune happens, too.

Great Guys help good happen. Even benevolence needs help.