Castor wrote describing, “… the plight of the whole kingdom. Across great swathes of France, the oppressive and violent reality of armies moving through the countryside, of battles and sieges, pillage and plunder, had left scorched earth, torched homes, and lives and livelihoods destroyed.” These were clearly the conditions that Joan’s mission life was conceived to resolve. Was it the prayers of the common people of France, a deeply religious and Christian nation, that enabled the divine to intervene in the form of Joan “The Maid?”

Her participation was planned in advance, because Creator was able to see the future and that eventuality of great need, and that many, many people would be praying for divine help and a kind of rescue in response to the onslaught. So this was a disaster that was foreseen but could not be fully prevented, but in response to the prayers of those affected in that time of great suffering and need for rescue, the divine was able to bring an orchestrated heroic figure to rally defensive measures to come to the aid of that nation, in providing a counterforce that was in divine alignment, at least in wanting an answer to those prayers for relief and rescue. Many times a divine solution will be a partial one or have a fatal flaw of some kind that will end up ultimately in failure despite the lofty intentions and the high purpose in launching the response intended to help. This is because humans are not perfect and it is their energy always that fuels what the divine can do, so we cannot bring about a solution greater than the magnitude of human yearning and active requests of us directly. People assume that God will see their suffering and will be moved to act on their behalf out of compassion, and taking pity if nothing else, because that is what humans would do, at a minimum, to at least want to help, and would likely jump into the fray even at their own risk. Such things happen again and again where someone will jump in swirling water to save a child who fell in, even though they themselves might not even be able to swim. That is a divine act of courage and willingness to even sacrifice the self to help another, it is divinity on display, but it is not necessarily a given that a would-be rescue will be successful. That poor swimmer might not be able to dive in and find a submerged child needing rescue and who is in grave danger and, in fact, that would-be rescuer might themselves perish, so the divine impulse seems wasted and a reckless act. We can tell you it might seem reckless from a human perspective but it will be a karmic event of great meaning and benefit to all involved even if it falls short of the intended goal. We would say a life well-lived is worthwhile always, even if it is shortened through a misstep that is well-intended but leads directly to an early death. Someone who ends up being a martyr falls in the same category, of putting their life on the line for a higher cause, and that will always receive divine recognition and grace, if not in the moment, in the future. So this was the nature of what Joan of Arc took on, and participated in personally, knowing full well the outcome would be uncertain, but nonetheless rose to the occasion and made a personal sacrifice that was an act of divinity by the nature of the intention and the circumstances in which it was launched.