Daily Reflections- February 24, 2012

CALL AND THE LORD WILL ANSWER!

 

As I write, I can’t help but think about my brand new cell phone, the first “smart phone” I ever had since cell phones became de rigueur  everywhere. Funny, but cell phones have become anything but “phones” — a word that literally has to do with sounds. Nowadays, we don’t “call” people anymore by phone. We text. We “miss call” them. We PM or SMS them. When we call people, hardly anyone readily answers. One first looks at who is calling and “ignores,” “rejects,” or takes the call.

The call-response continuum has been restructured. All this has belied the passage that has become my title for this reflection.

But this is precisely good news for us to consider today. Despite all the gizmos and gadgets designed to foster communication, there is really less and less personal interaction between individuals, when one can “delete” “friends” at will any time for the flimsiest of reasons. We need to re-appropriate this piece of good news.

It is good news for us, now that we are inundated by noise that masquerades as news. All sorts of dastardly acts that reflect man’s inhumanity to man, do leave us battered, if not tattered, as far as the “hope that is in us” is concerned. Add to that all the shallow showbiz intrigues, the inanities espoused by primetime shows, and the natural tragedies that take place everywhere in the world — and hope flies out the window.

But the communication that the postmodern world now understands is, for the most part, unidirectional. It is sad to note that most postings in Facebook and other social networking accounts go unanswered, maybe unnoticed, but people simply go on broadcasting in cyberspace. But the prayer that the readings speak of today is anything but unidirectional. “You shall call, and the Lord will answer!” Fr. Chito Dimaranan, SDB

 

REFLECTION QUESTION: This Lent, what questions about your life do you want to ask the Lord? Call on Him now.

 

Lord Jesus, help me to always remember that You do answer my every question in the way that’s best for me, in Your own time.