Today’s Gospel from Mark is another account familiar to us now of how we are cured and healed of the destructive effects of spirits and impulses and disordered movements at work in us that we need the healing power of Jesus to overcome. There’s echo of the same message in the first reading from the Book of Genesis which is a mature if also simple reflection on the origins of evil in our world. Evil comes through the misuse of the good gifts God creates and offers us for our happiness which then feed our disordered aspirations and ambitions. The resolution is the same for both: giving ourselves over the healing and transforming power of God’s love that takes hold of us and transforms us.