This morning, about 8:15, I was musing on the idea of, rather than execute a large number of MAGAts after the coming American Nuremberg, lifetime public humiliations for them. I think I heard some advice within my mind.
GOD: You may be a bit too fond of seeing others 'get their just deserts'. You need to watch out for that. It, too, like hate, can eat at you from within.
ME: But, Father, what else is there other than mass public executions? Don't we almost have to make examples, that such an assault on democracy not be repeated? Where and what is the justice?
GOD: My justice is restorative. I have only employed, or permitted people to employ, retributive 'justice' only when it is plain they understand justice in no other way.
Silence for a while as I muse on this. Then something else occurs to me.
ME: Restorative. Of what? Trust?
GOD: Certainly. That would be the 'floor' Individual and collective. But there's more. Restore what's within each person as well.
ME: But, Father, too many of them have eaten themselves inside with hate--and they've gulped it down with sickening eagerness! Yes. they gulped it down because they had no healthy relationship with You or, for that matter, with themselves or, probably, anyone or anything else except maybe their guns--but how can something that was never there be 'restored'?
GOD: One step at a time, my son. That process is a bit too complex for you to digest as yet, although that may change. But in any case, whatever you do, with My help, avoid schadenfreude. It's unhealthy for you and, really, all humans too. See, schadenfreude is, although milder and, thus, slower-acting and, sometimes, less perceivable, like killing another human. Including in war. Such acts either throw up or build up barriers between humans and I. While these barriers are not insurmountable, they do usually require considerable effort to bring down. That's one thing My Son Joshua, when He's called on, does a lot of. It comes back to not losing sight of your enemies' humanity. Yes, I know they don't see you as human either. And allied with this, drop the dangerous notion that your enemies' hate, and their desire to kill all of you, negates their humanity. That's something that can be too easily flipped on its head and used against you. Their are many battles in which My Spirit had much work to do to keep the soldiers' internal lines to Us at least fairly open. Many of them have felt this inside.
ME: Those who felt Your presence: many of them thought it was because You approved of their actions, am I right?
GOD: True enough, but I was able to set them right once they came home to Me.
ME: So, then, those soldiers who felt Your presence, You were protecting the connection between You and them, not approving of their actions?
GOD: Just so, my son, just so. I never have approved of humans killing humans. And if Scripture records Me as ordering that, it was only because, first, that's how I was heard and second, in some instances, there was nothing else for it given the humans with whom I had to work.
And when you write that history of your times, lean into, as you say in your times, the restorative understanding of justice over the retributive.
ME: I think of Trump and his MAGAts were offeed this, they'd probably call it a scam.
GOD: Then that might be a place where you need to offer them a choice between having their psyches rebuilt according to My specs or a remaining lifetime of humiliation. That would at least be better than executing them.
ME: Heavy stuff, but I'm honored You think me ready to hear and digest this.
GOD: I appreciate that. Don't forget to share it.
ME: No indeed! With Your help, I won't.
