Betrayal

To be betrayed is one of the worst kinds of pain that we can experience. In many ways, it is worse than murder because of all the layers and layers of damage it does. To be betrayed by a stranger or an enemy is not really such a surprise, and does not do the damage that results from being betrayed by someone you have loved and trusted. That kind of betrayal destroys the past, as well as the present, and leaves us without hope for the future, at least for a time. We feel like a fool, and our whole life seems to us to have been a lie. Once you have experienced this kind of betrayal, it either makes you bitter against God and everyone else, or it causes you to resolve never to do such a thing to another human being.