I would agree that there is a Higher Force at work in this tragic war that has caused us to awaken to our higher nature and respond with care and connection, as I wrote in my piece Amazing Grace: The Birth of a Caring Civilization. It seems confusing, however, to equal the Upper Force or Higher Force with nature which abounds in selfishness and violence. If we are to understand what is unfolding before our eyes now, I believe we need an evolutionary developmental perspective. From that angle, human consciousness is painstakingly beginning to own its higher nature, at great cost and very unevenly. It's a collective shift that many have written about, and others have foretold. I think you get to that idea with you metaphor of the slot machine.