After he said these things, Jesus became visibly upset, and then he told them why. "One of you is going to betray me." John 13:21

From The Book of Hours by Rainer Maria Rilke...

Now the hour bows down, it touches me, throbs metallic, lucid and bold: my senses are trembling, I feel my own power – on the plastic day I lay hold. Until I perceived it no thing was complete, but waited, hushed, unfulfilled. My vision is ripe, to each glance like a bride comes softly the thing that was willed. There is nothing too small, but my tenderness paints it large on a background of gold, and I prize it, not knowing whose soul at the sight, released may unfold…

Reflection

Even in the midst of good friends, it sometimes takes rupture and breaking to move from the small story to the big story.

Gus MacLeod