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 commune.
Forgive me, Lord, for we were connected, and now we are cut off.
–Michel Quoist, Prayers (English translation of the 1963 French original, Avon Books, 1975), p.19