Reflection for March 26

I have just hung up; why did he telephone?
I don’t know… Oh! I get it…
I talked a lot and listened very little.

Forgive me, Lord, it was a monologue and not a dialogue.
 I explained my idea and did not get his;
Since I didn’t listen, I learned nothing,
Since I didn’t listen, I didn’t help,
Since I didn’t listen, we didn’t communicate.

Forgive me, Lord, for we were connected,
and now we are cut off.

(Michel Quoist; Prayers of Penitence in The Oxford Book of Prayer)