To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
03936 – Listening vs. Hearing
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03893 – Disability Teaches Us
In this season of continued healing, I am soaking the powerful words of Julia Watts Belser deep into my own bones: “Disability has taught me much about the potent spiritual subversiveness of being radically comfortable in my own skin, of daring to find the presence of...
03775 – Whisper of the Heart
In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.
03632 – What Love Looks Like
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks...
03610 – Not Everything is Truth
Be a free thinker and don’t accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
03546 – Listen Longer!
If you listen longer than most people listen, you’ll hear things most people never hear. from Didn't See It Coming
03475 – Once a Child, Always a Child
I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a searching adolescent, given to moods and ecstasies, these are still part of me, and always will be... This does not mean that I ought to be trapped or enclosed...
03442 – Beauty is as Close as Breathing
May we have eyes to see and ears to hear and wits to understand that beauty is as close as breathing and is crying out to be born within ourselves and in the world.
03378 – God Hears/Accepts our Prayers
Remember when you thought God didn’t hear/accept your prayers unless you said or thought them in just the “correct” way? Then you woke up and realized God cares more about you and the cry of your heart than about any prescribed formula for how to pray. God’s Love is...
03333 – A Hundred Small Ways
Every day in a hundred small ways our children ask, "Do you see me? Do you hear me? Do I matter?" Their behavior often reflects our response.