What you did, Castiel, I know you did it because you believed you had no other choice. And for all we know, releasing Lucifer is what led to Amara being handled.

[ Just because she and God made peace and that is probably the big picture why it happened, doesn't mean all the steps that they took to get there were inconsequential. It was more like folding cards crashing over, in his experience with these things. ]

And I'm alive because of you, on multiple levels.

[ If Lucifer hadn't left his cage, Jack wouldn't be alive. He knows it's not a 1:1 situation, and if he could trade his life for everyone who died because of Lucifer, he would do it in a moment. It still stands to reason that he exists because of Castiel, and he continued to grow and thrive because of him too. ]

If you want to start over here, I understand.