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Can you Hear Me? The Skill of Listening
Learning to listen well has been a life long challenge for me, and maybe for some of you. Many of us can get caught in defensive listening. Defensive listening is the temptation to listen looking for an error, or to formulate a response or a rebuttal before the person has finished speaking. Sometimes we listen through defensive ears waiting for the Continue Reading...Read more -
Looking at Jesus
They say that you become what you look at, and I think in many ways they're right. For example, if we spend a lot of time watching violent movies or video games we can become desensitized to violence, and some studies suggest that we are much more likely to behave violently. If we focus on everything that is bad Continue Reading...Read more -
An Uncommon Grace
The following is a scene from Les Miserables (1998) starring Liam Neeson. In this clip we see an encounter between Neeson's character Jean Valjean and a Bishop (Peter Vaughan). Today, I can identify with Jean Valjean. A person who sometimes feels there is just no other way or just simply doesn't have the courage to walk the Continue Reading...Read more
