And talking of Radio 2 Pause for Thoughts (see below)

here's one of the ones I did earlier this month.

COMMUNICATION REVOLUTION:
My young daughter has finally sussed the TV remote control. I don’t just mean that she knows how to change the channel or the volume: I mean she’s figured out the whole record to Hard Disk and play it back at your convenience thing as well. So gone is any hope I may have had of watching the morning news with my cereal and toast … she wants to wake up with the favourite show she missed the day before.

All that’s a long way from this very day in 1983, when Breakfast Television was broadcast for the first time. Some of us may remember Frank Bough and Selina Scott bringing us the news or maybe we were stretching our muscles with the famous Green Goddess. Back then we were still getting used to having a fourth channel on the telly … but now we have hundreds to choose from.

There’s more on the radio as well … and of course we have the internet of instant information. We have lived through a communications revolution since the day we first turned our Televisions on at Breakfast.

But for all the new technology, I can’t help wondering if we’re any better off at listening to one another or saying what is important?

Has anything changed at all since Jesus told the people that their ears were open, but they didn’t understand the world around them … that they could see all right, but they couldn’t perceive what was going on. Jesus said they kept missing what was important because their hearts had grown hard …
they were only interested in themselves.

But if we could learn to really listen to each other
If we could see ourselves as others see us,
As indeed God sees us,
then families would be better at telling one another that we’re loved
politicians would be free to say they’re sorry
nations could talk seriously about making lasting peace:
And surely that would be good news worth communicating.