It has been said that while we have more and more ways of communicating with each other, even instantly in our modern age, we seem to truly communicate less successfully than ever before.

There is no doubt that our means of communication are more prolific and accessible. How do you communicate? SMS? Email? Mail? Landline? Mobile? VoiP? The ways of communicating are endless but what has happened with our ability as humans to hear, listen and understand each other? Today there are more people talking and less people listening. There are more people revealing and less people understanding. We know of and yet we don’t know!

Ever since the Tower of Babel, when the Lord confused our languages, humanity has struggled to communicate and to be understood. Its not the about the amount of communicating or the volume of our communication that matters but our willingness to listen, reflect and understand each other that is at the heart of our problem. This problem is not just confined to our inter-human interaction either. In our prayer life, our spiritual communication, we tend to speak without listening, we demand to be understood without trying to understand, we want but don’t often give. Thankfully the Lord is patient with us.

Prayer is the cheapest and easiest form of communication available to us and the Lord is the kindest and wisest friend we have. Let’s work on our prayer lives and watch our other forms of communication fall into line.

In love, Alan.