Monday, March 4, 2024

What / How to Pray for “Enemies”?

First: three case studies in brief (from the global, to the group, to the individual):
Case One
Billions of people worldwide are warned of an emerging virus that might kill hundreds of millions. Masking, washing hands, isolation, lock-downs, social distancing, etc., etc. are mandated till miracle vaccines can be developed. No protocol of treatment is offered before hospitalization, and some viable healing options banned. PHOs and media foment fear while professional colleges step in between doctors and their patients, de-licensing non-conformers during the height of the alleged public health crisis. The vaccine arrives and is declared “safe and effective” when there was no way such could be known. The Pharma and big business windfall is astronomical; small business and employee losses are staggering. Adverse events and sudden deaths skyrocket. Despite exposés, whistle-blowers, facts, and damning stats, the narrative, lies, pretense, censorship, and tyrannies persist.
So what and how does one pray for these enemies of truth, science, honor, and integrity?1

Case Two
A 14-year old scout is groomed and incrementally abused in a church-sponsored scouting group. He doesn’t know how to escape the trap and the shame but when the abuser begins to target his younger brother, he reports the abuser to his scout hierarchy but is assured that things will be taken care of; no need to report to other authorities; he is not even to tell his parents in order to protect the reputation of the sponsor. However the abuse continues. At last, at a scout camp, the boy becomes aware that there are many victims. When an instance of abuse becomes so blatant and public, the boy calls the police after the other scout leaders refuse. Sometime later, he and his father campaign to change statute of limitation laws and he launches a lawsuit to try and get documented abusers removed from positions and re-assignments. For some years, he and his family are targeted and persecuted for not dropping the case and the campaign. Some years later, in therapy, he and his then wife suffer therapy abuse by a church-approved therapist which results in the breakup of his marriage. It is a traumatic, painful story still unfolding where tens of thousands have been abused and abandoned.
So what and how does one pray for these enemies of truth, justice, honor, and integrity?2

Case Three
A young (NPD3?) mother of three is willingly seduced by a spouse predator.4 In a flood of self- and others-deception, she divorces her children’s father and soon denies him access to the children who are encouraged to call her paramour “daddy.” While awaiting an access hearing date, a temporary, limited access agreement is reached where the parties covenant not to disparage one another5 and the ex-husband will not speak about the paramour in front of the children. On the first, 1/4 day visit in circa two years, the 4-year old comes, wearing a hoodie under his jacket. When the jacket is removed in the presence of other close family members (who were also denied access to the children for almost two years), the new hoodie is exposed: vividly marked with the child's nickname6 down the sleeve length and the paramour's last name on the back in large letters. Considering the mother’s ego-driven history, this cruel “joke” — this blatant breach of non-disparagement — along with the innocent child’s incessant (pre-coached?): “Do you like my hoodie?” is not out-of-(vindictive)-character.
So what and how does one pray for this “enemy” of truth, morality, honor, and integrity?
These offenders and destroyers of rights, relationships, and families are becoming tragically common. The continuum of BPD, NPD, psychopathy, etc. is stressing so many to the breaking point. They agonize: “Do I keep trusting in God when things only seem to go from bad to worse? or do I give in to revenge, retaliation, eye-for-eye, despair? How do I endure this continual drama? the continual scaling up of bullying and tyranny? these unimaginable breaches of trust and promise? these brutal cruelties?”

Most of us know of many other dreadful, agonizing situations. We know, too, that:
43 ¶ Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? (New Testament | Matthew 5:43-46)
But how do we reconcile a deep sense of and need for justice with the unjust cruelties of wickedness, especially if we also recognize our own weaknesses and failings? Here is a suggestion:
Please bless ____________________________ with those experiences that will bring _____ to repentance, and if _____ refuse(s) Thy mercy and grace, please bless _____ with exposure and accountability, justice and judgment.
And because we are all susceptible to misjudgment, mis-perception, and self-deception, perhaps our addendum to every such earnest prayer should be to finish with “me / I” in the blank spaces.

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1. https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/05/a-global-stanley-milgram-experiment.html
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/04/real-life-milgram-spe.html
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/03/a-gift-horse.html
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/03/covid-covert.html
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2020/03/in-one-fell-swoop.html
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/04/no-no-no.html
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2020/10/pscience.html
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2020/08/catastrophe-prophets-profits.html
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2020/03/sample-questions-by-keeper-of-gate.html
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2021/10/what-is-covid-narrative.html
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-new-normal-samaritan.html
https://dejavu-times.blogspot.com/2021/05/by-what-authority.html
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2021/06/forsake-conscience-or-community.html
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2021/11/russian-roulette.html
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2021/10/it-all-makes-perfect-sense.html
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2021/12/when-pscience-becomes-god.html
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/11/campaign-amnesty.html
https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2024/01/something-we-can-do-rx.html
2. Signs of a Sexual Predator
Medically Reviewed by Smitha Bhandari, MD on December 16, 2022
https://www.webmd.com/sex-relationships/signs-sexual-predator
For more info on this story search “Adam Paul Steed”
3. NPD - narcissistic personality disorder:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/narcissistic-personality-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20366662
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/9742-narcissistic-personality-disorder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder
4. Did Your Marriage Fall Prey to a Spouse Poacher?
https://debramacleod.com/did-your-marriage-fall-prey-to-a-spouse-poacher/
Is A 'Partner Predator' Circling Your Husband Or Wife?
https://www.huffpost.com/archive/ca/entry/partner-predator_b_16231118
5. which the ex had never done for the sake of the children, also believing his beloved wife would wake up and seek to return.
6. A nickname given to the child by his mother or her paramour after the separation with the husband, so the mother and the paramour could avoid using the name given to the child at his birth — a name bestowed in honor of his step-grandpa, (who, at the separation, had spoken too much truth, but had thereafter extended an increase of love to the mother only to be given the order of no-contact, no birthday gifts, no Christmas gifts for her or the children.