My monologue with GOD

This morning Patricia and I went for holy communion at Basel church. We try to praise the lord in his holy temple but,sometimes the devil plays hookie and we opt for kon loh mee at Hung Fatt coffee shop instead. Forgive us lord for we are weak...food, food.....

Well this morning, Rev James talked about taking time to talk to God. Well we all do ,talk to god when we need his help. Which I must say, is a lot of times in a day!....well for me at least. I talk to him and thank him or ask for his help for many things,...like the hymn " Lord, I place into your hands the things I cant do .." Then after finish praying, I say 'amen'. Then I am off doing something else. Does it sound familiar?

Then in the course of the day, month or year, we wait for the lord to either answer our prayers or not. I used to think he was totally ignoring me, well, of course that isnt true.

However,the question here is, why doesnt he talk back? It would be nice if he started like...."well Viola, about your......"

Do your know why we have never heard him reply? His cell phone battery went dead? His fax machine broke? The microphone isnt plugged in?...hmmm.

The answer is simple.

We never spend time after saying our prayers, after ' amen', to sit quietly and listen. Listen for the sound of his voice...'Captain Kirk calling Mr. Spock'. We dont spend quiet time with him. How can he talk to us? How can we listen to what he has to say? How can he counsel us when we are off to our next task at hand immediately after AMEN ? Its like talking to our kids and before we can finish talking they say....mum I have to go!. Sounds familiar?

So the moral of this story is, even though God can multitask, we still need to give him our complete attention if we want to hear him. Sorry God doesnt do SMS or email....well not in our life time anyway, hahah.

He hears us every time we pray. We have to take the time to listen for his answer. Ok? understand?....and so, in Jesus's name I pray that I will not be deaf, dumb and blind, intentionally or otherwise, conveniently insane, partially amnesic, or out walking the my pet toad,...when he next talks to me. AMEN. ..ok got to go..........chao !