A Christmas Story About Trust

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Today, I was surprised by someone with whom I fought constantly over the past few years, who entrusted me with a very ambitious project. I said “Yes”, but I knew from the very beginning I don’t have what it takes to do it, and I told him that. Nevertheless, his faith in me was flattering and I fell for it.
And it made me wonder... If you have a friend and she breaks your trust, is she still your friend? Can you still love her? Has Jesus still loved Judas after his betrayal? I don’t believe in Jesus the way most people do, but I do understand how someone can love another treacherous human being because that’s what I do, too. I love all the people I’ve ever met and became friends with, no matter what they’ve done afterwards. I do not judge. 

And I am still her friend, even if the porcelain has been broken to pieces, and I think after something like that you just know that person better, you know the limits where intimacy ends, you know the boundaries of sharing a password, and you can still be a lighthouse at the edge of a stormy sea, if the ship is willing to follow the safe path you’re pointing at. Even if that person didn't say "Sorry", I still care and I can still show faith. The radiance other people are spreading might be limited to serve their own interests, but mine is not. I can give my own light to others, without becoming dark myself, and maybe that is more in the spirit of Christmas than going to church every Sunday.