What does hate create? (Walking Through Illusion, Thompson)

      Hatred is an intense feeling and is usually backed with actions of revenge.  This revenge only does harm and does not heal the emotional wounds.  Mary, from the Bible and in Walking Through Illusion, was an abused girl by her father.  She hated him for abusing her.  Thompson explains that as she got older she confronted her dad.  Unfortunately, she suffered physical abuse and was badly injured.  She goes to Jesus and he asks her which she prefers, "...the pain from lashing out over and over or the pain from abstinence once?"  Mary didn't like hearing this because she felt she was the victim and why should she be the one to change.  Mary confesses to Jesus that she doesn't love her father.  Jesus says, "I told her she didn't have to love him; she only had to release him."  This was the only way to find the love in her personal turmoil.
     What personal turmoil are you going through right now?  Holding onto the hate only causes pain for yourself.  Hate only causes destruction.  Although, Mary's case is an extreme case where you may think she is justified in her hate she is only continually living in her own pain by holding onto the hate.  Letting go and finding the love in your situation is the way to release yourself from your pain.  Mary eventually realizes that her father was also searching for love but in all the wrong ways.  As she released her hate toward her father she began to understand his pain and this made it easier for her find the love in her situation.