Our responses to this question I'm sure would be diverse because we all have different interpretations of what love looks and feels like. Interpretations that result during our younger years when we didn't even know we were being trained on how to love and receive it. Molestation, abuse, spoiling, over-protection, media, culture, religion and other factors have been used in guiding us to discover the meaning of love in our lives. When you think of the array of factors we have individually experienced and consider the clashes of these interpretations when we try to give and receive love amongst each other, then you see how love can become war; both internal and external.
With the diversity of life's lessons, where do we find commonality to base our collective journey? For love is a needed requirement for relationships of any kind. Where do we build from? What's the safe place we all can go without defensiveness and clashes? Listening! Before you give your heart, give an ear.
Without the art of listening, our relationships are doomed to be either destroyed or distorted.
James 1:19. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.
"If you love me, than you would listen to me as I listen to you"
Father helps us to LISTEN. Help us to materialize our love first in listening then in action. Helps us to be heard when we scream. Helps us to know that you are listening when no else seems to be. I pray especially for my brothers that are summed up to be just angry and all we are asking for is an ear. Protect us from the wrath of our outburst, by protecting those around from physical and emotional pain. Help us to love ourselves enough to hear the little boy that screams out.........HEAR ME. And when needed help us to hear each other. Who better to understand a man, than a man. Help us find Safe Brotherhood again.
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