Tangled Up In Writing

 

B e t r a y a l...

While THE KEEPER OF THE TOWER only touches the surface of the betrayal Evangeline and the rest will face in the rollercoaster-ride of the series finale, it's full of twists that even took me by surprise. But betrayal isn't always the villain making her overt power play.

Sometimes it's the family member twisting the knife. Sometimes it's the friend you thought you could trust, or the one who draws you close just to discard you. Sometimes it's a community member who is only happy when someone else is miserable. Rumors, lies, jealousy, strife.

And then the Lord says to forgive them anyway.

Because Jesus knows betrayal intimately. And He forgave anyway. For everyone, for all time. I'm gonna yap about that some more later in the month. But for now, betrayal and healing from that hurt is going to be a rolling theme throughout the next handful of books I'm currently working on. Along with grappling the commands of the Bible to forgive even your worst betrayer and enemy. It's easier, David says in Psalm 55, to forgive your enemy than it is to forgive someone close to you who becomes your enemy. Satan may use his weapons well, but the Lord sees and knows it all and holds you in His care too.

Even when it feels like He's far away.

I said my theme for this year's writing was unshakeable hope, fullness of joy, and conquering light...and only in the darkest of times will we ever see the fullness of His work through those three things. Only when we cannot see how those things are attainable, will we ever see how the Lord moved and made it happen anyway.