Goodness shining bright!

Listening to the news this morning, I saw the devastation from the storms in Florida. One place, which was really hit hard, was a mobile home park with mostly senior citizens and many of them had lost everything. One gentleman told how his insurance had been cancelled a year before, not because of his not paying, but because the company decided the area was too high of a risk. I could feel the angry grumbling in my heart, but then they showed how other people in the area were opening their homes for these people to stay in. They had moved out to sleep on their couches and sofas and floor so that the elderly could sleep in their beds. It was really beautiful to see! They asked one young couple how long their new three guests could stay and the man looked as if it was a silly question and simply answered, "Why until they can stand on their own two feet again!" That is true goodness shining bright, without condition and completely open. Then, they talked to one of the elderly residents who had been offered a place to stay and she said as she stumbled through the rubble of her house, "You see, there is only really good, only good, deep down in all of us." It was so magnificent to see someone so utterly convinced of this...something I need to find deep in my heart myself that there is only really good, only good, deep down in all of us!