Morning Prayer 8/100. Listening is loving
Listening is loving
Listening is loving.
My mom clearly distinguished listening from hearing. She reminded me (frequently) all it took to hear was my ears. What it takes to listen is my mind. How often I heard, “I know you hear me, but are you listening to me?”
Listening is a conscious action. Listening to another person shows that you love (respect, honor, appreciate) them. The more fully and actively you listen, the clearer they hear your love — spoken or not. I’ve found that the better I listen the better what I’m hearing sounds. I’ve found that when my listening shows and speaks my love for the other person, the more love I hear in what they say.
And, for certain, loving is listening.
Loving is a consciousness, too. The joy of listening to Spirit’s unconditional love can readily increase your consciousness of that love. When it moves into your consciousness, it becomes part of what you say and do, what you see and hear. We receive from Spirit the most profound, absolute, limitless Love. That is the Love from which we are created. To me, consciousness of that unconditional love is the true gift. It brings with it awareness, appreciation, humility, and a wholesale eagerness to return love in kind.
How do you listen for God’s Love?
What do you listen to?
What do you listen for?
What do you listen with?
Listening Spirit,
the messages you share with us in so many ways,
that we may listen to with all our senses
and our consciousness
speak so clearly of your Love.
Our hearts receive as well as our ears,
our eyes, our touch, and more.
Our listening to the Love you give,
to the Love with which you make us always new,
says to you our love in return.
We love you, Spirit. We thank you that you listen.
Our listening shows our love.
And so it is. Amen.
Love and blessings,
07/15/2015
In: God, Happiness, Joy, Life, Love, Prayer, Spirituality · Tagged with: Divine Spirit, Joy, Love, Oneness
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