There has never been a time easier to communicate across the world than today. We can communicate with our family or friends living miles away with the touch of a screen. Not only we can hear their voice but see them on the screen like they were in front of us.
But let me ask you, do you think that humanity has really advanced in the ability to connect with each other?
Technology has advanced but in contrast people are not able to understand each other. In the current cultural environment, people are forced into ideological camps that repels any ability to find together an understanding. Families are broken, friends are avoided, work environments are delimited, society’s freedom is squashed and replaced with the expectation of conformity with one side or the other side.
Saint Paul writes in the most beautiful terms “If I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal” (Corinthians 13:1). It really doesn’t matter how much we can say, in fact, we can shout via our social media channels all kinds of ridiculous statements that mean nothing. We want to dictate how we want “them” to live their life in order that their life resembles ours and hence, falling deeper into a comfortable unchanging spiritual lethargy.
We then sound like a clashing cymbal to our neighbor!
We must learn to communicate in the language of Love and Charity. If not, we will sound like a shrieking noise to our friends that even with the truth in our hands we will be unable to convince anyone about The Truth.
Then Saint Paul continues, “Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, [love] is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”
How much are we willing to sacrifice for our neighbor’s salvation? When we are capable to sit down with a friend that has a different view from us, listening to how “wrong” he or she could be and say to God “please God give ME supplications for his or her salvation” then we would be speaking God’s language of Love.
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