What are the good and the not-so-good? The good may be some aspects of your strength, your skills, your talents, your good looks, your wisdom, your gifts, your patience and your possession, your speed and so on and so forth. How about the not-so-good? This one may be just the opposite of the good.
Acceptance. How to live with the good and the not-so-good? For those who have learned to live with these, they have in some sense learned to accept them and use the good for good and the not-so-good while bear with the not-so-good and build them up if that is possible.
When you see the people we do not like, in your sense, you may categorise them as not-so-good (though who are you to categorise them in such a way, but we are not so perfect either - we are not-so-good actually). But somehow we respond to them different from those we consider the good. We treat them harshly. We classify them harshly as well.
What do you think? Can we do such a thing as this? I remember a story in the Bible. This story is the story of Noah and the flood. A lot of questions can fill our minds on why God sent the flood and destroyed the world. Was God fair in wiping out the world with the flood? Why only the eight was chosen and the animals?
I could paint a picture in my mind of a child drawing a first piece and then spotted a mistake and then tore the entire piece away and starting afresh. Imagine the master artist. He will do that. But the next question arose. God knew that there were still some not-so-good qualities in those eight who survived the flood.
How did God live with the good and the not-so-good? This is something for you and me to search and grapple with. In fact you and me are already grappling with each day and each moment. We lived with answers and questions our whole life - answers that aren't perfect answers, and questions without an applaudible answer.
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