Another question would be...."is evil always bad?"....or...."is good always good?" To not think in absolutes puts an entirely different spin on reality, for me anyway.
An ancient Chinese Story
In ancient China, there was a very poor, old man. He had one son and the only possession he had of any value was a horse.
One day the horse ran away and the neighbors came to comfort him. How sad that your only horse is gone.
Maybe its bad and maybe its good, he said.
After several days, his horse returned with a great number of mares.
His neighbors came to rejoice with him. They said "How good it is. Now you have a whole herd of horses.
Maybe its good and maybe its bad, he said.
While his son was breaking one of the wild horses, he fell of and broke his leg.
His neighbors said: "What a terrible thing this is. Now your son cannot break all the horses.
Maybe its bad and maybe its good, he said.
Then a warlord came through the land, recruiting able-bodied men to be inducted into his army and the son could not be taken because of his broken leg.
You never know how events in your life will turn out, but God does and He makes everything, even those things that seem bad, work for our good. Romans 8:28
I think that if we can accept things that happen without judging if they are "good or evil" and learn from them, we will be better off as it frees our minds to accept our lives as they are and not labelling events. We cannot change the past.
