The beauty of listening is that it validates people, whether it's letting people finish their story or like Carol, recognizing that people feel and sometimes our best gift of listening is to let them feel without our attempt at rescue. Our response can be our sincere heart: I'm sorry or I see what you are saying. We'll call this NO RESCUE LISTENING. See if this finds a place in your day.
02 December 2011
The Advent Calendar of Listening--Day 2
Carol Kuykendall writes to her daughter-in-law in today's Daily Guideposts, "I owe you an apology. One of the things God and I have been working on in me is to let people feel how they feel without telling them how they should feel. And after I talked to you on the phone this morning, I talked to God and He reminded me that I'd done it again."
