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Please Listen

Author Unknown

 When I ask you to listen to me
and you start giving me advice,
you have not done what I asked.

 When I ask you to listen to me
and you begin to tell me why
I shouldn't feel that way,
you are trampling on my feelings.

 When I ask you to listen to me
and you feel you have to do something
to solve my problem,
you have failed me,
strange as that may seem.

 Listen! All I ask is that you listen.
Don't talk or do - just hear me.

 And I can do for myself; I am not helpless.
Maybe discouraged and faltering,
but not helpless.

 When you do something for me that I can
and need to do for myself,
you contribute to my fear and inadequacy.

But when you accept as a simple fact
that I feel what I feel,
no matter how irrational,
then I can stop trying to convince
you and get about this business
of understanding what's behind
this irrational feeling.

 And when that's clear, the answers are
obvious and I don't need advice.
Irrational feelings make sense when
we understand what's behind them.

 Perhaps that's why prayer works, sometimes,
for some people - because God is mute,
and he doesn't give advice or try
to fix things.
God just listens and lets you work
it out for yourself.

 So please listen, and just hear me.
And if you want to talk, wait a minute
for your turn - and I will listen to you.




Comments

  1. angelica cruzJune 25, 2008 at 8:55 PM

    i agree. sometimes you just have to clear your mind and sort out all your thoughts to understand whatever it is that's bothering you. and sometimes just talking to Him is enough. : )

    hope you'll feel better, red. kape lang yan ; )

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  2. red pasetesJune 25, 2008 at 9:26 PM

    thanks, angge. :)

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  3. Jeco PlacioJune 26, 2008 at 2:48 PM

    mismo. masarap lang dumaldal, magkuwento, magdrama, magshare. hindi ibig sabihin na helpless ka or nega ka or hindi mo kaya.

    so kelan mo ikukuwento... baka matulungan kita, marami akong advise, siguro ganito or baka naman ganito... blah blah blah. hehehe.

    JOKE LANG.

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  4. x yJune 26, 2008 at 3:37 PM

    listening is loving..hehe..:D

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  5. red pasetesJune 26, 2008 at 3:40 PM

    hehehe. salamat, jec.

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  6. Aileen EstoquiaJune 28, 2008 at 3:32 AM

    miss ko na ang bundok.

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  7. red pasetesJune 29, 2008 at 12:58 PM

    balik tayo sa October. :)

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