The following statements are given for review:
“God is but Love, and therefore so am I.”
(169) “By grace I live. By grace I am released.”
“God is but Love, and therefore so am I.”
(170) “There is no cruelty in God and none in me.”
“God is but Love, and therefore so am I.”
By Grace you are released and the doorway to Grace is forgiveness.
The cruelty you think you see in the world is a symbol, a reflection of the gap you have allowed to come between your awareness of Life and your limited sense of self. That distance does not feel right. The mind then projects that feeling onto the world in an image of a disturbance, in this case a disturbance that speaks of cruelty.
The reason an image of cruelty appears is the limited, isolated sense of self and the belief that cruelty could be real. The image is alerting you to what is going on inside. It is a signal that invites you to look at and acknowledge what is happening around you as well as within, and then to offer it all up to the inner teacher.
The way to resolve cruelty “out there” is not through fighting and resisting it in the projected world. That would only make it more real in your experience. The way to resolve cruelty is to heal your mind through forgiveness, through the letting go of the misunderstanding of who you really are and of the belief that cruelty could be real.
There is no cruelty, not in you, not in anyone, not in Creation. The thought of cruelty is a flat thought, a placeholder for a gap in understanding, just like the thoughts of death, despair and doubt.