Wishing to get even, taking revenge, to balance the scales, to repay
in kind are natural human sentiments, a wild justice, manifestations of
living on the secular basis. Conversely, Living on the Spiritual Basis
we have learned that “hatred ceases not with hatred.” Though the
crimes and acts committed may be horrendous, even beyond the pale, we
must take a higher road mentally or we will remain mired in limitation.
To be clear: those who have transgressed society's laws and been found
culpable should suffer the punishment society has decreed, the principle
though of condemning the act, not the actor paramount if we are to
remain free.
We must turn to God, and though the guilty may have committed acts seemingly unforgivable, we must give them over to God root and branch in thought otherwise we suffer along with the guilty. Remember it takes two to make a spiritual prisoner, the guilty and the jailer and is not the jailer as surely in prison as the guilty? The spiritual jailer having it worse than the prisoner, since they can leave the prison while the guilty are trapped, yet they chose to return of their own free will day after day, perpetuating resentment and condemnation in their hearts, choosing morbid reflection over spiritual freedom. Prison or freedom, light or dark, limitation or unlimited growth, the choice is always ours. “Let there be peace, and let it begin with me.”
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