Grace for a Poor Listener

Chapter 10

Well. Not much to say on this except... I AM SO EXCITED TO TRY THIS!!!!

And by the way- A chapter that opens up with Letter from a Birmingham Jail is just bound to be good. If anyone is interested, I highly recommend reading the entire letter. It's quite incredible.

Like I said before, I'm so excited and ready to begin trying all this now. I feel like I'm confronted on a minutely basis how much I need to stop and listen, REALLY listen, and then engaged someone who's world I have just delved into. I so quickly become self-conscious about my poor listening skills because many of the people in life that I admire most are incredible listeners and question askers. On page 189 I could only in good faith check 4 of the 15 statements of evaluation. POOR listener. yup. That's me.

But here's the hilarious thing- I know, already, without one smidgen of a doubt that I am going to fail catastrophically at this. It's so funny to me because I just know it's going to be so hard for me and it's gonna take me more times than I care to admit to even begin doing this right. But, I suppose that this is the beauty of grace. Grace gives us the freedom to try. Freedom to fail. Grace creates this safe space for us to try to become better than what we are. But a relationship with Jesus and salvation are still 100% ours know matter how slow or little the progress is.

So here's to practicing becoming a better listener!