{"id":175,"date":"2008-01-14T12:02:04","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T16:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/?p=175"},"modified":"2008-01-15T14:35:09","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T18:35:09","slug":"175","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>&#8220;A Good Listener<\/u>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c2\u00a0 1. listens with with spiritual ears open, hearing and understanding the<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 spirit beneath the words;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u00c2\u00a0 2. listens with the heart and mind still and the mouth shut;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u00c2\u00a0 3. listens with no personal agenda;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u00c2\u00a0 4. listens with compassionate spiritual eyes, maintaining involved eye<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 contact;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u00c2\u00a0 5. listens with a compassionate heart;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u00c2\u00a0 6. listens with a committed heart;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u00c2\u00a0 7. listens with attentiveness;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u00c2\u00a0 8. listens without judgment;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u00c2\u00a0 9. listens without fear;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>10. listens with faith, knowing that the Spirit of God is at work to will and<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 do according to His good purpose;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>11. waits patiently, quietly and prayerfully through times of silence, making<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 room for the unfolding of things previously too deep and too painful to<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 even know or express;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>12. counts it a privilege to witness a soul in the process of transformation,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 even when it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t look like it;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>13. offers to explore options;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>14. offers to pray when the time of tears and sharing ends;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>15. consoles with words of comfort and confidence in the faithfulness of God,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 which is usually all anyone needs to hear;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>16. waits to give advice until asked;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>17. offers a hug;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>18. recognizes that these are holy moments of eternal consequence;<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>19. keeps all holy moments completely confidential.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A Good Listener: \u00c2\u00a0 1. listens with with spiritual ears open, hearing and understanding the \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 spirit beneath the words; \u00c2\u00a0 2. listens with the heart and mind still and the mouth shut; \u00c2\u00a0 3. listens with no personal agenda; \u00c2\u00a0 4. listens with compassionate spiritual eyes, maintaining involved eye \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 contact; \u00c2\u00a0 5. listens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pdweaver.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}