Hand Over
Betray – meaning... Hand over.... Unintentionally to show true character To indicate what is not obvious This Irish poet and theologian Padraig O’Tuoma has encouraged me to think differently about betrayal. Perhaps, our betrayers, sometimes, in some ways, in some sense, are not only out to hurt us but are motivated by other impulses. He is writing about Judas whom it is often taught was treacherous and greedy handing Jesus over to his executioners for a small bag of gold. Padraig asks us to consider if there might have been other motivations for his betrayal. The disciples believed that Jesus was their savior, the Messiah come to liberate them from the oppression of Rome. Even though Jesus told them again and again in many different ways that his way was different, not one of violent revolt but one of transformation of the self and society through love, that to show this love he would be taken fro...