With the Deepavali festival holidays coming up, the newspapers are full of advertisements for products available on discount sale. It seems that today's Times of India has more advertisements than news reports. Mobile phones, cameras, house hold products and the list is endless. The hype of the Apple iPhone 6 launch dominates. It is more fun to scan through the adverts rather than the news items. Phone proliferate.  The dual core has /was become/became quad-core, which has become octa-core. More RAM. More Apps. Lighter. Gorilla Glass. And so on!

 My friend at the YMCA bought a new iPhone, the 5S.  Though friends tried to persuade him to go in for the iPhone 6, he felt that 62,000 was beyond his target. We live in a world where it is imperative that we communicate. I find it difficult to reach my wife or daughter on the first try. Their phones are for ever busy. Every one is busy communicating with someone. I board my suburban train at VT station and it takes me 30 minutes to reach my destination. Gives me a lot of time to 'people watch'. Whether they are inside the compartment, or at the various stations, people seem so busy speaking, texting, etc.

Which brings us to an amazing fact: God is a communicator. And he is ever looking for an opportunity to communicate with his people. The only stumbling block is that we do not receive, respond! Our receiving units are turned off and our antennas are disoriented. I wish I/we could take time off to hear and communicate with him who is our maker.