Be a Blessing: Give a Listening Ear

Blessings for a gorgeous marvelous monday  May the beginning of the week bring you Happiness Peace and Love  Today I urge you to be a blessing to another by just simply listening.Listen to their thoughts their plans their hurts . Don't we all at times just need a listening ear. What a simplistic  way to show another you care. So today   Be a blessing Give a Listening Ear <3  God Bless, Barb Gadway 

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” 
― Leo Buscaglia

The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.” 
― Ralph G. Nichols

Teach Me To Listen

by PAUL on JANUARY 11, 2010

The following prayer was composed by John Veltri, S.J., a Canadian spiritual director and expert guide for those presenting the Spiritual Exercises.  He died in 2008.  May he rest in peace.

Teach me to listen, O God, to those nearest me, my family, my friends, my co-workers.

Help me to be aware that no matter what words I hear, the message is, “Accept the person I am. Listen to me.”

Teach me to listen, my caring God, to those far from me– the whisper of the hopeless, the plea of the forgotten, the cry of the anguished.

Teach me to listen, O God my Mother, to myself. Help me to be less afraid to trust the voice inside — in the deepest part of me.

Teach me to listen, Holy Spirit, for your voice — in busyness and in boredom, in certainty and doubt, in noise and in silence.

Teach me, Lord, to listen.  Amen.

Mark 4:24 ESV 

And he said to them, “Pay attention to what you hear: with the measure you use, it will be measured to you, and still more will be added to you