Betrayal

"As soon as Judas had taken the piece of bread he went out. It was night."

The darkness of night falls over us after each betrayal.
It is when we take our own piece of bread and leave others behind, thinking only about how to get more out of our situation.
Did you ever leave others behind in that dark of night?

People built their lives on your promises and you never kept them.
They waited for your return, and you never came back.
Were you ever left in the dark by others who betrayed you?

This kind of betrayal is not something we only do as individuals toward the persons around us.
It is something we often do with others as a community.
We rarely see how all are bound together.
We fail to see ourselves and others as part of the universe, as part of all that is created in Christ. We look too seldom at long-range efforts and pursuits.
We are out for a quick gain.
We squander energy, we cut down trees irresponsibly, we consume irreplaceable goods, we let whole species of animals and plants just die off.
We, the current dwellers of this earth, are impoverishing and betraying our offspring.
We took our piece of bread, and so much more than that, and we often thought of nothing else.

Night will be falling over the whole of the earth.
It will be falling over all of us if we don't change our ways.