{"id":5363,"date":"2012-03-12T05:46:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T10:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.185.166.32\/~davidfoster\/?p=5363"},"modified":"2012-03-11T20:32:52","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T01:32:52","slug":"betrayed-bitter-or-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/betrayed-bitter-or-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Betrayed, Bitter, or Better"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Wow.\u00a0 What a response to my talk today in our series, “Messy Like Me!”<\/strong>\u00a0 I should have known that people would really resonate with the topic of betrayal.\u00a0 Because, let’s face it.\u00a0 All of us have had the bitter pill shoved down our throat.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of my close buddies said to me on the way out today, “Dave, I’ve been listening to you for 12 years.\u00a0 And this is hands-down, the best!”\u00a0 Well, I appreciate my brother’s affirmation.\u00a0 I’ll take all I can get.\u00a0 I’m just as insecure as the next guy.\u00a0 But I also know that the content has something to do with it.\u00a0 Betrayal is something we experience and, let’s face it, almost none of us navigate very well.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

So today we talked about three different kinds of betrayal<\/strong> that you suffer.\u00a0 We talked about the betrayal of friendship, covenants, and confidences.<\/em> We talked about the power of betrayal in our lives if we deal with it negatively.\u00a0 It can truly devastate your life.\u00a0 But maybe the most important thing I said today was this: none of us have the power to choose or control what happens to us.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 Let that soak in.\u00a0 It’s not just a throw-away statement.\u00a0 You literally have no control over the things that happen to you.<\/span><\/p>\n

If life weren’t for the broken, messy people, you’d have a little more control, but even then you’re not in control of the circumstances.\u00a0 But here’s the most important thing: you’re always in control of your responses.<\/strong>\u00a0 I wrote a whole book about it called, “The Power to Prevail.”<\/a>\u00a0 It is the power to prevail: to choose, in the quitting moments, to make the right choice.\u00a0 We talked about what some of those choices are.<\/span><\/p>\n

But one of the most important takeaways today is the fact that each one of us are called to relate to the betrayed.\u00a0 Not only are we betrayed, and sometimes, let’s face it the betrayer, we need to reach out.\u00a0 And we need to know the three things that the betrayed need<\/strong>: things like protection, perspective, and reconnection to purpose.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Why not comment here on my web site? Let me know how this talk really resonates with you.\u00a0 You know that the media for this is stored on TheGatheringNashville.com<\/a> web site.\u00a0 But it also can be delivered to you automatically on iTunes.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow.\u00a0 What a response to my talk today in our series, “Messy Like Me!”\u00a0 I should have known that people would really resonate with the topic of betrayal.\u00a0 Because, let’s face it.\u00a0 All of us have had the bitter pill shoved down our throat. One of my close buddies said to me on the way … Continue reading “Betrayed, Bitter, or Better”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5363"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidfoster.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=5363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}