LISTEN TO UNDERSTAND

21st September 2019
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Holding a conversation with another person may not always be easy. Especially when both are good speakers and not good listeners.
Most of us have never been taught to listen, so it’s really not our fault.

Effective listening is skill-based and must be learned and practiced.
We must approach listening with a positive attitude and the intent to understand the other person completely.
Let’s face it, we’re not going to agree with everything everybody says. That is part of life, and we need to accept it. It’s perfectly OK to disagree with someone, but we need to first understand their message.

We could try to concentrate on understanding the other by becoming a little more empathetic when we listen.
Putting ourselves in the other person’s shoes will help us see things the way the other person sees them and understand the way they feel. Our reply will then come from a basis of complete understanding.

Learn ‘The Art of Becoming a Good Listener!’😊

BIBLE VERSE:

Proverbs 18:13 of the Bible says:

He who answers before listening – that is his folly and his shame.

Dear beautiful souls❤️, bound in God’s Love❤️

When we are in conversation with another person, it is wise, fair and only right that we hear the other person out before we reply.
Otherwise a premature answer could make us look silly and completely thrown off our balance.
One reason for this is that almost all premature answers are based on thinking that we know all we need to know.
But that is “foolish.” There should be a ‘give and take’ between each other.

Humility does not presume that it knows precisely what a person is asking or telling until the questioner has finished asking the question or telling out the facts.
How many times have we jumped to a wrong conclusion by starting to formulate our answers before we heard all that the other person had to say?
Take the extra effort to ‘learn to listen.’

May we be filled with Grace from Above to learn Patience and become good listeners. Amen.

Prayer:

To all those dear souls❤️ who find it difficult to be patient listeners – just think for a moment of the long-enduring patience that the Good Lord shows you when you run to Him with your woes and troubles…how long you pour out your heart and want Him to listen?

I pray that He fills you with the same patience when you listen to one another…May you become a good listener as much as you are a speaker.