Showing posts with label betrayal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label betrayal. Show all posts

Friday, February 12, 2021

Betrayal; The Chief of Grief

This week-end many will celebrate love on Valentine's Day.
I am so thankful for all the faithful love in my life
but this year I feel an unutterable sorrow for so much brokenness!💔

And while the word Betrayal renews reverence for the word Faithful 
it also leaves us grief-stricken with a sometimes-feels-helpless heartache, 
to witness the ruins of shattered lives!

Is there any hurt more bitter and brutal than betrayal; When trust is broken?! 
When spouses, friends, preachers, teachers, apologists, priests 
betray those who trusted their love, 
their counsel, their ‘wisdom’, their vows, their office. 

One of Jesus’ twelve disciples betrayed Him, (with a kiss!
Surely there is a sorrow more bitter than death! 
That of betrayal! 


When trust is shattered, love besot, 
When what we thought was so, is not 
When lie and liar are unveiled 
When it seems, alas, love has failed 
God, who, still trustworthy and true 
Abides, resides, provides; He knows 
The pain of thorns that pierced the Rose 
He wept, while his beloved slept 
Betrayed by a friend’s kiss, no less
He reaches down with hands nail-scarred
He understands; his brow thorn-marred
Who plumbed the depths of pain and grief 
In suffering, ah, He is Chief 
So then, whatever bitter lot 
We can trust Him, no matter what 

© Janet Martin 


Heb.4:13
Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight. 
Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes 
of him to whom we must give account.

So we pray and pray for the broken, the betrayed, 
and the betrayer, just as Jesus, Son of God though He was, did. 

Heb.5:7-9
During the days of Jesus’ life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions 
with fervent cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, 
and he was heard because of his reverent submission.
 8Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered
 9and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation 
for all who obey him...



Sunday, July 22, 2012

Empty and Cold


Poetic Bloomings Prompt: Betrayed!

Tonight you are a cantankerous rapscallion
Elusively haunting the fringe of my thought
You seem to delight in playing the villain
Antagonizing me by your formless naught

Last night a soul-mate, tonight you betray me
Vexing, perplexing aloofness of thine
Come darling, come and lay down against me
Feed me the choicest delights from your vine

I must learn not to trust you; but I am your victim
Ever returning to gobble your crumbs
Always forgiving your mindless betrayal
I’ll drink the wine from your vine till I’m numb

Muse, oh Muse,  crass tormentor of poets
What is this lure, this endowment you hold?
Last night we danced, making beautiful poems
Tonight the dance-floor is empty and cold

© Janet Martin

Only the Temporal Betrays...



Poetic Bloomings  Prompt; betrayal



We may be betrayed by our strongest desires
Our wants may lure us to hellish heartaches
So-called friends may gather like vultures
To feast on the carcass of our mistakes
Oh, tis a wretched and raw, ruthless scalpel
As we moan ‘neath the knife of bitter betrayal

We may be betrayed by the words we have spoken
Or by the vows of a trusted friend
I’ve stood at both points of a promise broken
There is no honor at either end
Betrayal is galling spittle in our face
But oh, we are never betrayed by grace

We are not creatures of casual coincidence
Though faith-leaps may mock us from ash-heaps of trust
We are not bound by cold, calloused consequence
Pain, horror, grief are the torments of dust
Oh, blessed truth we reach to embrace
For we will never be betrayed by grace

By grace we are saved; betrayal’s damnation
Can never reach into the arms of the One
Who gave His Only for our salvation
His One and Only belov-ed Son
Betrayal tests faith as it points to a place
Where we grasp the assurance of His steadfast grace

© Janet Martin

My thoughts and prayers are with all those affected by the Colorado shootings (which hopefully is all of us on some level)…as they struggle to cope with the shock of massive betrayal.