Digging on cartel and cabal families.

Immediately feel sorry for the children.

They are born into, and grown into, the monsters they become.

Free will?

Know of God?

How many tried to give them The Word?

Explain God's mercy, grace, and forgiveness?

Explain that first one must turn from all sin?

Digging through mugshots and can see the timeline of the father (young man to old) and his children's mugshots start appearing alongside him in the data sets.

Can see the innocence on the children's faces in the first mugshots and then the hardening sets in, and years later, they all possess the same cold black hard look in their eyes.

Their faces physically change.

They all become so ugly.

Ugly inside, ugly out.

Felt so sorry for the children.

Found myself remembering the old phrase 'There but for the Grace of God go I."

By the Grace of God I was born into a home with a strong father, a strong grandmother, and many many examples of how to 'be.' When free will got the best of me, it was because I did not follow the examples set. I made my own mistakes, some of them quite painful.

But I eventually found my way back, to living how God designed me to be. I found my way back to me. I had the foundation to rebuild on, and from.

Do the cartel and cabal have the opportunity to do/be other than the monsters they are?

Could not remember if that phrase was of Biblical origin.

Quick search led to this:

John Bradford, burned at the stake on the orders of Mary Tudor. Became a Protestant.

Apparently under Tudor that was crime, considering he had a following and was known to others 'for his respect for his dedication to God and his unselfish attitude.'

>>Following the death of Edward in 1553, Mary Tudor ascended to the throne bringing the threat of reprisals against opponents of Catholicism. In the first month of the new monarch's reign, Bradford was arrested and imprisoned on the seemingly trivial charge of "trying to stir up a mob" and committed to the Tower of London. Although seemingly trivial, at the time ‘stirring up a mob’ was a serious and dangerous act, leading to riot and possible death, and certainly major disturbance to society. During his time in prison, he continued to write religious works and preach to all who would listen. For a time whilst in the Tower, Bradford was put in a cell with three other reformers, Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, Ridley, and Latimer. Their time was spent in careful study of the New Testament.

>>On 31 January 1555, Bradford was tried and condemned to death. Bradford was taken to Newgate Prison to be burned at the stake on 1 July. Bradford was given a special "Shirt of Flame" by a Mrs. Marlet, for whom he had written a devotional work. This was a clean shirt that was sewn specifically for the burning, made in the style of a wedding shirt. "This clothing with a new shirt to wear at the stake became a common feature at the burnings, a way of signaling support for and honouring the victim, as though he were being dressed as a bridegroom for a wedding." Also, the ceremonial donning of the shirt of flame could be seen as similar to the priest donning his vestments, thus subverting Catholic ritual. "…and so the martyr might pray over and kiss the shirt before putting it on… underlining their oneness with Christ and the fact they were willing to die…" [7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bradford