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Once you get a taste of listening like someone who is being taught, you probably won’t want to go back to make-believe listening.
“An essential part of true listening is . . . the temporary giving up . . . of one’s own prejudices, frames of reference and desires so as to experience as far as possible the speaker’s world from the inside. . . .” M. Scott Peck
“The Lord . . . wakens my ear to listen like someone who is being taught.” Isaiah 50:4
If you see today’s twenty-four hours as your possessions, you’ll parse them out (or not) as it suits you. If you see them as a gift, you’ll gladly give.
“[F]rom possessiveness to hospitality. . . .” Susan Currie
“God so loved . . . that He gave. . . .” John 3:16
If you could trade toxic-and-sickening for truly-healed, would you?
“Envy is . . . toxic and sickening. . . .” Cornelius Plantinga
“Envy is like cancer. . . .” Proverbs 14:30
“Heal me, Lord, and I will be truly healed.” Jeremiah 17:4
Pay close attention today.
Serendipity: the gift of finding unexpected, beneficial events
“[S]uch highly-unlikely beneficial events happen to us all the time, quietly, knocking on the door of our awareness no more dramatically than the beetle gently tapping on the windowpane.” M. Scott Peck, MD
“Pay close attention. . . .” Mark 4:24
When you’ve been trying very, very hard for a long time to do God’s job, quitting feels a lot like springtime.
“I am not responsible for other people’s happiness.”
“Do not look anxiously about you, for I am God. I strengthen, help, hold up and support. . . .” Isaiah 41:10
Maybe God is always (and patiently) asking us if we want to get well. Maybe He knows a lot better than we do that getting to yes takes us a long time.
“Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been in this condition for a long time, so He asked him, ‘Do you want to get well?’” John 5:6
“Love perseveres patiently.” 1 Corinthians 13:4
