Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife. Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit. So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.
لقمة يابسة ومعها سلامة خير من بيت ملآن ذبائح مع خصام. الموت والحياة في يد اللسان واحباؤه ياكلون ثمره. اذا يا اخوتي الاحباء ليكن كل انسان مسرعا في الاستماع مبطئا في التكلم مبطئا في الغضب.
Proverbs 17:1, Proverbs 18, James 1:19
Through God’s word we learn that quietness and peace are much better than a house full of feasting and arguments and conflict. Peace between people requires establishing mutual trust. Trust is about listening to understand (not necessarily agreeing which is different) the other person. Listening without judging is necessary.
A useful focus to aim for when listening to another person is to try to understand him/her, how the other person feels, and to discover what the other person wants to achieve.
The late Dr. Stephen Covey ('The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People'® ) is one of many modern advocates who urge us to strive deeply to understand the other person's point of view through empathic listening (also called active listening or reflective listening).
I invite you to repeat the following prayer for yourself:
Abba Father, please help me to listen with
empathy, to understand other people, not to judge them, and to be slow to
wrath. Help me to control what I say and purify what I think. Thank You Lord
for Your unfailing, deep, everlasting and inseparable love, for your abundant
blessings and for Your grace upon my life. In the mighty name of Jesus; my Lord and Saviour; The King of kings and Lord
of lords, in The Holy Name of Your only begotten Son Jesus, I pray to
You Father. To Him who is able to keep me from stumbling and to present me before
His glorious presence without fault and with great joy, to the only God our
Saviour be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord,
before all ages, now and forevermore. Amen. Jude 1:24-25
Jesus loves you,
In Him,
Wagdi Henein
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