The Deep Goodness

There are days when it feels like the whole world has lost its balance. When the headlines, the feeds, and the notifications all blur together until you stop reading them because your heart can’t take another disappointment.

Even so, I still believe in what I call the deep goodness – Christ’s presence alive in the world and the deeply faithful people who do their best to live in response to His love.

The deep goodness is not loud. It’s not trending. It’s the neighbor who organizes meals for a grieving widow whose life has been upended by loss. It’s the teacher who buys school supplies for her under-resourced students. It’s the church member who creates a space of welcome for someone who has not felt noticed, heard, or appreciated in years.

These aren’t random acts of kindness. They are signs of a deeper truth: God’s goodness is still holding the world together. The psalmist wrote, “Surely your goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever” (Psalm 23:6). Even in chaos, goodness pursues us. It is steady, patient, and enduring.

When we pay attention to that goodness – when we honor it, join it, and choose to amplify it – something begins to change. Our despair loosens its grip. Our cynicism melts away. Our hearts remember how to hope.

The poet Mary Oliver once said, “Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” That is the rhythm of those who live from the deep goodness.

So maybe today you begin right where you are. Notice one act of quiet love. Say thank you. Offer one yourself. Because every day, people like you and me can become conduits of the world’s healing. In every gesture of mercy, every word of compassion, every small choice for peace, we join the hidden current of God’s redeeming work.

The world may still feel upside down, but even here, even now, the deep goodness runs beneath it all – waiting to be noticed, waiting to be lived, waiting to make all things new. So go into this day and live from that goodness. Let it shape how you see, how you speak, and how you love. Be the calm in someone’s storm. Be the kindness that restores faith. And remember, as the Apostle Paul said, “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good” (Romans 12:21).