Too many people underestimate the value and power of listening. Listening to me builds trust.
Please listen—and pray.When I ask you to listen to me and you start giving advice, you have not done what is most
needed and most helpful. Please listen—and pray.
When I ask you to listen to me and you begin to tell me why I shouldn’t feel the way I feel, you
have trespassed holy ground. You have not walked in my shoes. Please listen—and pray.
When I ask you to listen to me and you feel you have to do something to solve my problems,
you have interfered in a holy process, strange as that may seem. Please listen—and pray.
All I ask is that you listen. Not talk or do—just listen. When you do something for me that God
and I need to do, you contribute to my fear and feelings of inadequacy. Please listen—and
pray.
When you accept as a simple fact that I do feel what I feel, no matter how irrational, then I can
quit trying to convince you and begin to be healed by the Spirit of God. Please listen—and
pray.
Remember, these are holy, epiphanic moments of the soul. So please listen and just hear me. If
you want to talk, wait a minute for your turn—and I’ll listen to you.—Anonymous
