Day Twenty-Nine // March 30 // The Roots of Disloyalty “It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” – William Blake –
They should’ve known better. Maybe I should’ve known better. Listen deeply. Listen honestly. And you will hear it: the echo of these words reverberating in your own soul. They echo because they bounce – they bounce off the stony walls that we’ve built up to shield us from those times we suffered rejection. They bounce off the chasms of grief, brokenness and pain that were eroded by moments of betrayal. Any of us who’ve ever dared to love another has felt it. Any of us who’ve ever chanced the odds to be truly vulnerable has feared it: disloyalty – the gutting reality that something we’ve trusted has been untrue. Whether a lie of the heart or a rebellion of the mind – disloyalty comes just close enough into us to jab its wicked dagger into our most tender and unexpecting of places: our souls.
