puzzle piece 44
No one needs correction or punishment

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Spirit corrects the Mother

"... I reasoned
that she would need to be 'shown'
how she was in fact wrong...

"I decided to begin with...
what I was most upset about ~
her withdrawing from me.
I said something about that to her
as I revved up my Light and
suddenly slapped her with it,
right in the places
where she was most open to my input.
The Mother went reeling away from me.
I wanted her to experience
how wrong it was for her to withdraw from me.

"I wanted her
to experience how it feels to be very far away from my Light.
I reasoned
that this would
make her think twice
the next time she got a whim to back away from me like that.

"I had felt very hurt by her withdrawing from me,
...

"But ... she didn't come running back then.
She stayed gone.
'Okay,' I said to myself,
'I'll out wait her...

"It gave my rage some comfort to know that
all the while she was gone,
she would be in pain.
And I reasoned
that as much pain as it took,
that would be
how much she would need
to be impressed
with the desire
to correct herself,
and never allow herself
to be wrong like that again.

"After quite a while of waiting,
I became even more upset.
I didn't have my reflections,
I didn't have my wiggling,
and I didn't have
my satisfaction of knowing
that she was corrected.
I could only assume that she was uncorrected,
and liked it that way. ..

"By the time
I went looking for her,
I'd forgotten
that it was my Light that had pushed her so far away...

"She was guilty, for sure ~
and she was avoiding correction.
She couldn't go on like this,
she had to be stopped ~
from being wrong
and from being gone.
I had to get her back
so that I could fix her,
so she could be right again, like me.

"I hunted her down
and brought her back.
She was obviously chastened now,
and my rage felt some relief.
And soon, I reasoned, she would 'see the light' ~
the way I wanted her to see it. ...

"My third mistake was believing
that the Mother needed correction.
She was merely being
who she is,
doing
what she naturally does.
She was without fault.
In truth there was no need
for any kind of correction...

"My fifth and worse mistake was
in taking it into my own hands to 'correct' her.
For it was
this intentional act of malice
that became
the original cause
of 'punishment'
in this Creation.
The presence of this idea,
that there are those
who must be 'corrected',
and those whose job it is
to correct them ~
is the cause of the very worst suffering in Creation. ...

Punishment means pain,
and it hurts deeply,
no matter what it's called.
It's even been called love ~
something someone does to another
for the other's 'own good.'
But I must say now very clearly ~
there is no intentional infliction of pain against another's Will
that is inside of Love, regardless of any other intentions."

...

"Yes it was my intention
to hurt you there,
to teach you a lesson,
to 'fix' you,
to 'correct' you.
I am repulsed by myself now over it all ~
just in the fact
that I deemed it necessary,
let alone the awful pain
I intentionally caused you then.

"I apologize now for all such behavior on my part.
I promise to never again
knowingly originate or participate
in any form of hostility,
any form of punishment
or chastisement ~
toward you
or anyone holding
any of your essence,
which is everyone in Creation.
I am now owning and taking responsibility
for all of the parts of my Light that have done this,
and all of my denials there."