Reflection

“Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” –Rumi

Prayer

Word of life,

Dialogue is truly an art, which depends on more than our volume to be meaningful. We all want to be heard when we speak. We want our ideas and opinions and feelings to matter beyond our own heads and to make a genuine difference in the spaces we live and work beside others. And yet it seems increasingly common instead that those spaces are filled with shouting and those who launch into monologues and throw opinions into a “stream” of media. Help us become better at speaking together. May we honor the voices you gave us by using our words to speak life into actual spaces, where we seek to listen as much as we speak, where communication attains real communion. Amen.

Call to Action

Consider today the ways I share and express my most impassioned opinions with others. Am I getting better at dialogue or monologue?