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| LISTEN... WHEN I ASK YOU to listen to me and you start giving advice you have not done what I asked. WHEN I ASKED YOU to listen to me and you begin to tell me why I shouldn't feel that way you are trampling on my feelings. WHEN I ASKED YOU to listen to me and you feel you have to do something to solve my problem then you have failed me strange as that may seem. LISTEN! All I asked: was that you listen not talk or do just listen. Advice is cheap - 10 cents will get you both Dear Abby and Billy Graham in the same newspaper; And I can do for myself - I'm not helpless - maybe discouraged and faltering, but not helpless. But when you accept as a simple fact that I do feel what I feel no matter how irrational, then I can quit trying to convince you and get about the business of understanding what's behind this irrational feeling. And when that's clear, the answers are obvious and I don't need advice. Irrational feelings make sense when we understand what's behind them. Perhaps that's why prayer works, sometimes, for some people because GOD is mute and He doesn't give advice or try to fix things. "They" just Listen and let you work it out for yourself. So please listen and just hear me. And if you want to talk, wait a minute for your turn, and I'll listen to you. (Anonymous) |
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