Thursday, October 28, 2010

Testifying against the Abuser in Court

I received a phone call today from a friend.  She was scared and stressed about a criminal court hearing coming up in a couple of weeks against her husband.  She was afraid because he was playing good boy with church friends, and persuading them that she was crazy. 

Never mind the fact it was witnesses who called the police.

She was getting upset and worried about how he would attach her in court, and bring friends to testify against her.

I reminded her that she has no children to bind her to him.

I reminded her that they were married too short a time to worry about dividing assets in the divorce.

I reminded her that once the divorce goes through she could say goodbye to him forever.

Thus, she really didn’t need to worry about the consequences to her of the hearing.

I reminded her that SHE was NOT on trial!  He, the Abuser was on trial.

I asked her to call the county Victim Witness coordinator, that most counties have them.

She gets to walk away from the hearing, regardless of whether or not he was found guilty.  She has nothing to fear.

She can testify freely, and tell the truth.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

The Universal Rhetoric of Love

The ability to stand with confidence and freely loves others comes first from an understanding of our own power, agency, given to us by our Loving Heavenly Father.  I was taught these principles from my earliest days.  I had no idea of their true significance as the all seemed commonplace to me until I was confronted with the Logic of Hate.   Understanding these principles and applying them to your life will immunize you against beings seduced by the Universal Rhetoric of Hate used by abusers, gangs, political parties,  faiths, and races.

These Principles are taught throughout time, history and throughout the Globe.

These principles are missing from the heart of every abuser.

1.  God is all Powerful, he is your Father, He Loves and Cherishes you.

2.  God is the literal Father of the Whole Human Family.

3.  God Watches over you and all of the Whole Human Family

4.  Our Father God, hears and answers your sincere prayers and has the power to act on your behalf.

5.  In his infinite love, wisdom, patience and mercy, he gave you and each member of thee Whole Human Family, Free Will, or Free Agency.  The absolute ability to make choices, and bound the results  of each choice to eternal consequences.

6.  Each good choice you make with your Free Will, strengthens you, brings you closer to God, and expands your future choices.

7.  Each poor choice you make with your Free Will, weakens you, pushes you away from God and limits your future choices.

8.  No one can ever take away the Free Will of your Spirit.  

9.  You will be measured by your own actions, and not the actions of others.

10.  Poor choices you make can result in self limiting consequences, and self destruction.

11  No matter your station, or condition, you have the power to do good, and make beneficial choices.

12.  Each offense another commits against you and yours, provides the opportunity for you to discover and prove your own strength of Free Will, by doing good in return, and stand up for what is right.

13.  While you may do good to others who wrong you, neither you  nor God can control the response of of the recipient, as they too have Free Will.  It is God’s gift to them to prove themselves for Good or for Evil.

14.  Our actions and all the actions of others provide learning experiences for you and allow you to develop, progress, and explore your complete potential.

15.  Power over ourselves is the only real power.  All other powers are just illusion, and always just out of our grasp.

15.  Jesus Christ our Savior taught us the basic principles of Exercising our absolute Free Will, the more we follow those principles, the closer we come to knowing true absolutes power, not over others, but over ourselves.  Christ’s teaching focuses completely on how we treat others, not how they treat us.  We have no power over others, only ourselves.

16.  The Greatest Power you can ever experience is to follow these teachings:
    A. Love your Enemy.
    B.  Do good to your them that Hate you.
    C.  Bless those that Curse you.
    D.  Return not evil for evil, but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
    E.  If any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also.
    F.  Whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him in twaine.
    G.  Be a peacemaker, any weak soul can escalate a fight.
    H. Rejoice when you are persecuted.
    I.  Pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.

16.  You need not Fear the power of any man, as the Most Powerful of all is watching over you.

17.  When you are free from Fear of other’s having power over you, you are Free to Love.

18.  Fear and Love are incompatible and cannot dwell peacefully in your heart.
This is the short version.