During my daily silent worship, an inspiration came to me and I want to share it with all of you. It is a message to any torturer, a plea that they may see the Light.
TO A TORTURER
Oh, Brother, how is it possible that you could commit the atrocity of torturing someone, another human being, just like you who like you has made mistakes, big or small? You are neither judge nor executioner; you have no right to fill yourself with hatred against someone whose story or life you know nothing about. What does he love? What moves him? Are his children, his family waiting for him or in need of him?
I hold you in the Light so that you may see the other as your equal, as someone who as a human, makes mistakes just as you do. May that Light illuminate you so that you may overcome that hatred that is not yours, and may it give you the courage to refuse to obey an order which goes against our very humanity.