Ears and measures

Mark 4: 21-34

I have ears, my husband has ears. Often he tries to have a conversation with me whilst I am preparing dinner and he is relaxing watching the TV and drinking the TV which I have brought him after his sometimes stressful day at work. Now the TV is so loud that I am sure next door's children but by now be fluent in English by all the English and American programmes that they hear through the walls.
I am supposed to listen and contribute to the conversation. Hearing the words is difficult, speaking over the volume of the soap operas is something that I refuse to do. I am course accused of being hard of hearing though I suspect that it is the person responsible for the volume of the TV that has the hearing problem.

²³Let anyone with ears to hear listen!’ ²⁴And he said to them, ‘Pay attention to what you hear; the measure you give will be the measure you get, and still more will be given you. 

Now I maintain that my ears hear very well. I claim that I can hear pins drop. The main reason that I do not follow the conversation is because I continue what I am doing and do not make the effort to get near the source of the words. I prefer them to be drowned out by Friends or Two and a Half Men or Charmed or Spooks or whatever is the programme of the moment.

Is this my attitude to listening to God too? Am I too busy fulfilling my own agenda that I do not listen what what God has to say and am missing out on his measure?