The Grace of Handling Betrayal
The Grace of Handling Betrayal What Does It Mean? This teaching addresses the painful experience of betrayal and provides a powerful example of how to handle it through the story of Joseph. The instruction defines betrayal as the breaking or violation of assumed trust, confidence, friendship, or contract, which automatically produces an emotional, moral, and psychological conflict within a relationship. It creates unintended consequences, calls for an assessment of its actual reality or misunderstanding, and creates emotions of anger and hurt. The possibility of being "stabbed in the back" or "double-crossed" is evaluated. The teaching then presents Joseph as a lesson in how to handle betrayal. Joseph's brothers, driven by jealousy, plotted to kill him. They threw him into a cistern and then sold him to Ishmaelite traders for twenty pieces of silver. They dipped his robe in goat's blood and deceived their father into believing Joseph had been killed by a wil...
