Celebrate the goodness of all created things. Mourn when good things are used for evil ends, but reveal in absolute goodness of creation. As Christians, in a decadent world, with are own personal failings, it’s easy to place a great, and largely deserved, weight on the corruption of what was once paradise, and yet, you cannot have a corruption of something that was initially corrupt, the very fact of corruption points to the original goodness of things. It’s easier to write about darkness, more tantalizing to decry wickedness, it feels more real to deal in pain, and while this is noble and necessary, remember the created goodness of things. God created everything, and He created it good. Evil has no metaphysical reality. Evil occurs when something once good has been perverted. There is no powerful, evil god of evil which is equal to the good God. We are not Zoroastrians, and God does not, indeed cannot, originate evil things. Evil, therefore, is a substitution of a lesser good to a greater, leading to the inevitable corruption of that which was once good. Take sex as an example. It was created good, but when it is loved for its own sake, without reference to God or your neighbor, (both greater goods) it becomes perverted. Men, angels, and things are good in their nature, but become corrupt when they choose to pervert other good things on this earth for their own twisted ends. If this is the case, revel in the goodness of things. Use things for the ends they were made, and delight in the process. The earth is, indeed, full of the goodness of God.
Reflective Wanderer 