Weeds.

In the Mahabharata Krishna says:

"No good man is entirely good, and no bad man is entirely evil."

Good people often bury evil in their unconscious out of fear.

And bad people may think themselves better than good people.

But this is always a matter of degree.

In Matthew's Gospel in the Parable of the Weeds and the Wheat the Master tells his slaves not to gather the weeds because "in gathering the weeds you would uproot the wheat along with them."  Matthew 13:29 (NRSV)

This is because we may not be accurate in our assessment of who is good and who is evil.

We may punish the wrong people.

Jesus says not to judge others.

And God judges no one.

So humility and honesty are needed.

We should not expect ourselves to be perfect, however.

We are human.

But we should aspire to being good without fear of judgement.

For God is Good.

[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.  All rights reserved.]

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