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by catherineyronwode » Thu Aug 30, 2018 9:29 am
Hello, Amycakes97 -- and welcome to our forum.
Your coworker sounds like a criminal-in-training, and not a good person at all. If she is the one who took your ring, she is a slick thief, and brazen, too. The fact that she told you that she knows how to steal from the till is disturbing. It is also a weak point in her defenses -- you KNOW about her skill at theft and you KNOW that she enjoys the benefis of stealing from both the corporation and from friends.
I don't think there is any way that you can involve he police at this point. No evidence is available and the police, even at their best and finest, can only work on the basis of evidence.. They could take a statement and watch her if they run across her, but there are thousands of petty thefts like this going on daily, and they can't watch everyone. They're only human, after all.
Now God, on the other hand. . .
God watches everything, and when those who have been wronged appeal to God for justice, the results can be amazing. Justice can be served with power and finality, especially if the petitionr is blameless in the situation and is not making a false accusation.
So, first, as to the matter of a false accusation, which we are told not to make: I was taught to make what is called a "conditional" plea for justice. It is never a flat curse, like "Lord, kill Jane, the bitch who stole my ring!" Because God is NOT your pit bull. Instead, you approach God with your plea for justice in a conditional way,
"Lord, my ring, which meant a lot to me, is missing. I know that i dropped it, and that no one snatched it off my finger, but, Lord, it is my belief and hope that my coworkers of good faith and just minds would return it to me if they found it, out of kindness, as i myself would do for them. Yet this did not happen.
"Lord, the woman [Name[ is known to me to be a thief. She has told me of the way in which she steals from our employer. She had the opportunity to steal the ring rather than return it to me, and i believe she did so. Such a woman, Lord, who would take what is not hers, both by design and by opportunity, is not fit to live among people of good repute. She is a hazard and a menace to us all. With each successful theft, i fear that her arrogance and pride will grow stronger, and that she will steal and steal again.
"Lord, i ask you this, with a humble heart: If [Name] did steal my ring, let her be punished! She stole from the register and was not found out! She has taken my ring and was not found out! She will steal again -- but let her be found out! Let her next theft be observed! Let her be punished!
"Lord, i do not ask this only for myself, but for all the victims of this woman's thefts, for all the thefts in her past and for all the thefts to come. Lord, stop her now! Let her be caught red-handed and taken unawares! Reveal to all the world her criminal deeds, so that no one else must suffer at her hands! Let her walk the earth a cast-out, a pariah, a woman of ill-repute whom no one will befriend. Let her dwell in dirt! Let her hair fall out! Let her teeth rot in her head! Let her wander the streets begging for food and have no home for shelter! Let her crimes follow her, for all to see!
"Lord, if i am wrong, and this woman is innocent, forgive my importunity, and show me how good she is by some sign -- but if you show me no sign of her goodness, then this prayer -- my prayer for JUSTICE! -- will be on my lips every day, whether i see her or not. In your infinite wisdom, you must make the choice, dear God, to let her trouble us or to let her receive what is due to her. For my part, i only ask for what i believe is due. If i witness her downfall, i will not revel in her pain. Rather, i will magnify YOUR name, my Lord God of Justice, for having dealt with her so fairly.
"Amen."
Yes, that is a long prayer -- but that is how i was taught to address God, in words freely spoken from the heart. This is not a piece that you must memorize, but it is a pattern for this type of prayer.
Now, how to implement it:
Write the woman's name on a small piece of paper using a pencil. (It has to be in pencil because it will be boiled and you do not want any ink to run). Put the paper, a handful of salt, and some water in a small saucepan and set it on the stove to boil. As it heats and boils, say your prayers, according to your heart.
When the water boils away, leaving the salt crust and the paper, turn off the heat, but do nothing more to the saucepan. The next day, add water and boil it again and pray again for justice. The third day do the same.
Then scrape the salt crust and the remains of the paper from the saucepan and set them aside. Wash out the pan and put it away. Carry the remains of salt and paper to the work place and drop them on the floor in the place where you believe you dropped the ring -- where you saw her sweeping. You can also drop bits in other places, where she walks.
With each bit you drop, call her name into it, so that no one else will be affected. Say something like this:
"May [Name] and only [Name] feel the pains of remorse and the terror of panic when she steps in this, for God is watching her, and knows what she has done! May her crimes stand revealed for all to see! In Jesus' name, Amen!"
catherine yronwode
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