July 4, 2022

Reflection

COMMUNICATION

What is communication?

It's listening - watching - coming up with questions - scenarios - figuring.

What is communication?

It's realizing I'm only 1 person with my figurings - if I even do that - and another is another person with their experiences and figurings.

It's time - taking time - not jumping to conclusions. 

It's walking in my own shoes and then another's shoes for the same mile and then many more,

It's finally actually listening to another - to find out if they know and can spell out where they are coming from.

What is communication?

It's entering into the mystery of God - God's creation purposes - God's likeness - in reaching out to the second person - and in the process discovering a spirit of love can exist between people.

What is communication?

It's receiving another person in Holy Communion - especially after they have suffered and died - and their body has been broken by people who have betrayed them for 30 pieces of  silver - more or less.

What is communication?

It's being silent - in the darkness of a long weekend - or a long year - or a long life - and then still reaching out to the other person - and discovering the stone has been rolled away - and the other person starts rising before us and we want to hold onto them.

Communication is resurrection and new life.