Penni Livingston
2 min readMay 5, 2024

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I look forward to your views on the nature of love versus the problem of sin.
I once encountered a disturbing question you seem ready to explore : how could this lovely young woman somehow vibrate at a matching level that put her in the path of this serial killer? Fear maybe? Low self esteem? or is my personal disbelief in randomness wrong? It sure looked random, unplanned and horrific to cut this young woman’s life short.
It makes no sense. But- I wondered if there is an energetic or other connection that lines up between a victim and a perpetrator? Law of attraction has to be in effect yet, surely we are not to “blame” when a crime is committed on us or another car plows into our car or our government falls prey to dictatorship behavior or a cop puts his knee on our throat or whatever the grave injustice we are experiencing. A judge won’t set a hearing on a remanded issue right now. Whatever we experience that is out of balance maybe.
Yet how does “not being to blame” fit with my belief of being 100% responsible for my life?
As a praying person where thought and desire are prayers- I know there must be something in thought (and deed) we can do to be out of the purview of such “sin” that misses the mark of goodness. We must be able to be a target out of the range of these awful things. That seems good use of prayer.

I know the answer is love as that is always the right answer to everything. Figuring out what love looks like in a given situation does not always have easy answers even as we must imprison and give the death penalty on occasion when that looks like the rod of love.
The matching vibration thing seems inescapable to me even as other people do bad shit like shoot up our church and our friends are dead and we know they did not deserve it in any way. These are disturbing issues dealing with such harm while maintaining the purity of a spiritual perspective.
Prevention being our best cure, I look forward to your upcoming views.

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Penni Livingston
Penni Livingston

Written by Penni Livingston

Penni Livingston is the Lorax Lawyer, retiring from active practice to write about three decades on the front line of bringing about justice by suing polluters.

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