A practitioner asks: “I hear people calling for divine justice, and this is contradictory to saving interlopers. I don’t know how to think about it—pray for divine justice or that everyone is forgiven?” What is Creator’s perspective?

If you step back a bit and look at the big picture, you can pose the question, "How can divine justice come about, in a true sense, unless there is a restoration of all those who have been harmed, a healing for all those subjugated, suppressed, brutalized, and limited from having a good life, a full life, a rich life of happiness and joy that is their birthright?" All those wrongs will have to be righted for true justice to be served, not a weak gesture, like a prison sentence, that causes more punishment and pain but does nothing for the victims, truly. So this is a way to think about the problem. Forgiveness is all well and good but it is still only a partial measure, it is a change in perspective that might free a victim from greater anguish and suffering if it enables them to let go of the past and move on with their life so they are not all-consumed by bitterness, regret, and resentment towards a perpetrator who has harmed them. While that act of forgiveness can release them from some inner anguish, it is more a demonstration of healing having happened already for it to occur and be truly meaningful. At the same time, forgiveness of a perpetrator does not heal the perpetrator, it might reduce a current burden or obligation to make amends directly with someone harmed, in being released of that obligation by the victim, but it does not satisfy the Law of Karma, it is not yours to decide who is now debt-free and has no further burden from their wrongdoing. That will be judged by the Law of Karma, so you can be sure that eventually there will be a rebalancing that takes all into account, and that perpetrators will always face a reckoning to rebalance the scales, and it might be a painful lesson indeed, but that will be meted out by the universe, energetically, and is not a further burden or responsibility of the victim. So, in saying prayers to help make things better, you can think about the problem multidimensionally. You need not only focus on the ultimate rebalancing, which could be many lifetimes down the road in some cases, and is little comfort to the suffers of today, why not pray for both—pray for all to be raised up, victim and perpetrator alike? That would clearly need to happen in differing ways because there are differing needs, and while some short-term solutions will help ease things, it is always the deeper and long‑term healing needs of karmic repair that will have the greatest impact and have the greatest value in righting the wrongs all too common in your world. Both short-term and long-term objectives can be honored through prayer, and that is the best way of meeting your sacred duty as a member of the community of souls to which you belong.