Heavenletters

Dear Gitta,

in Heavenletters themselves as well as in our discussions, this is a topic that comes up again and again, of course. I wouldn't say the answers have all been given already, I rather feel we are led toward them step by step. But there are a few things I can say from what I have read so far; perhaps others can add their own understanding.

God says that behind every destructive or even cruel act there is some deep caring for something, and a huge disappointment. Any form of hate and destructiveness is a distorted form of love that simply needs love, not punishment, to get a chance to recognize itself for what it is.

Second, God encourages us to find the impulse for destructive actions withing ourselves and to see that we are not all that different. Thus, for instance, we have in Heavenletter #1756:
 
You must not hold anything against anyone. This is not about someone else. It is not about a deed they committed. It is about you. I am looking out for you. You are the one who has to let go, and you have to let go now.
 
Furthermore, you do not own the offense. It does not belong to you. The greater the wrong that was done, then the greater must you balance it. You have to go the other way, drop retaliation and heartache, and pick up a bigger vision. It is you who must make amends. You must make amends with your heart. You have been punishing it.
 
You do not own the offense, yet, in another sense, you own every offense. Every offense is against you. Any malicious act that has ever been committed to anyone in the universe was also done to you. Whatever has hurt any family, has hurt yours. If another country is wounded, your country has also been wounded. Others, other families, other nations – they are others in name only. Whatever hurts another also hurts you.
 
You must absolve all the hurt ones in the world, and you must also absolve all the hurters in the world, for they too are your brothers. There is no crime committed that, in your heart, you have not committed.
 
Greatly offended, your heart was murderous. You knew better than to actually commit murder, but you committed murder with a vengeance in your heart. You know what a murderer feels like, because you have felt as he has felt. You too have felt wronged, with every right to denounce. You too, somehow, have felt above the law of love.

http://www.heavenletters.org/ultimate-forgiveness.html
 
A third thing I would like to add is a passage on "innocence" (taken from Heavenletter #1200) I found quite remarkable:
  
Someone might say, "God, if you are so laissez-faire, aren't You making it allowable for one to even murder another?"
 
Even murder has to be allowable, or free will would have been canceled.
 
One who slays another Human Being's body can only do so out of ignorance. If he knew what he was doing, he would not do it. If he understood that there was free will, he would not kill, for he would know that another has free will as much as he, and he would not interfere.
 
You may not like this idea, but both the murderer and the murdered are equally innocent, and both are equally dear to Me. Make no mistake, I do not favor murder. Not at all. But I do see it for the expression of hurt it is.
 
Do you really think that My love could be a hindrance and that even one who murders would be better off without it? Would punishment serve him better? Who needs My love more? Is there anything that works as well as My love, or even comes near it? Do you think My love is a bouquet to be tossed here and there, reserved only for those you approve of?
 
My love falls on all the same. I am not an elitist. I am God.
 
How easy the world would be if My love were more well-known! Make My love famous. Let My love ring from the hilltops so that everyone hears it like a clear bell, and turns toward the ringing of My love, and no one turns away.

http://www.heavenletters.org/the-ringing-of-gods-love.html
 
Just a few things that come to mind immediately, Gitta. Perhaps they contain at least part of the answer for your wonderful and very pertinent question. Another extremely important part is in what you are saying yourself – "being kind to nature etc."