Violence is the world's way. Of trying to rid myself of my pain by displacing it onto others. Pain is a kinetic energy. It wants to move. It can move me to actions I'll live to regret.
Seduction is the world's way.
The games of seduction are a mammoth distraction. When we succeed at our seductions, we become inflated, even bloated, at worst egomaniacal, with a sense of our own power or worth. We forget, as we so wish to forget, our powerlessness before God. We forget our own deep need. Pain borne in God's way is the pain I have allowed myself to feel.