‘How can we make space and time to listen to God when we are always doing at least two things at once?’

Veronica Zundel looks at the lost art of ‘monotasking’ and how important it is for our relationship with God

Men can’t multitask. We all know that. It takes a woman to juggle a baby, the cooking and a phone call at the same time. It’s what we’re made for – isn’t it? So how come these days I see men multitasking all over the place: listening to music on earphones while reading a work paper on the Tube, marking homework while cooking the dinner etc? My husband used to fix electrical goods at a local charity shop, with our then three-month-old son strapped to his chest. Nowadays he watches boat-building videos on his tablet at the same time as ostensibly watching a TV programme with me (I suspect his attention is mainly on the boat building).