A hole-saw looks like a small section of a tin can with serrated teeth on the end that do the cutting. When we meet a vicious, mean person who is trying to hurt others, we should visualize a tiny hole saw.
“Dear, frustrated guardian angel of this angry man, please cut out the unhappiness within him.” While praying, picture an angelic hole-saw, a thousandth of the diameter of a human hair, cutting away the bits of misery-causing hatefulness trapped within the unhappy mind. Such prayers usually help.
It’s always tempting to pray for the death and destruction of individuals who want to hurt us.
And, when ranting, chanting, angry mobs threaten whole nations, it may be tempting to want them all dead.
Rather than wanting to slaughter them, pray that clouds of angelic hate-destroyers zoom into their minds to get rid of the evil within each one. Rather than saying, “God, please wipe these awful people off the face of the earth.”, we can more profitably say, “God, please fix whatever makes them so mean and vicious.”
If we could see how small most kernels of hatred are, we’d see that hate is nothing but teeny, tiny tangles of crossed wires and a burned-out, short-circuiting demon or so draped across the wires like clothes tossed over a clothesline.
One reason God has allowed angry individuals and rampaging mobs to exist, and has them shown on TV, is to let us see how we react. Will we ask God to annihilate them or ask Him to make them be better people?
If we find ourselves saying to Him “If You don’t do the latter, will you please do the former?” we should spend more time in prayer so that we, ourselves, can do something to help solve the problem.
