Can You Hear Me Now?

Rachel Naomi Roman once said, ~The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention...A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.~ If you think about it, one of the five senses we use the most is our sense of hearing. On any given day, we open our ears and listen to something or someone to where we either have some, most, or all our attention focused on that person or sound at hand. Essentially, a person who has great listening skills is not simply nodding or making hmmm sounds every other second/minute, but actually listening to every word you're saying.

Without a doubt, each and every woman is looking for a guy who will actually listen to what she has to say. Oftentimes, a woman will encounter a guy who hears what she is saying but isn't actually listening at what she is truly saying to him. For it's these types of guys who have a hard time accepting the fact that she isn't interested in him to where she will politely try to brush him off with words that are kind instead of one's that are harsh. Typically, the harsh words women try to avoid saying to a guy are that you're an immature, egotistical, hard headed jerk, who doesn't know when to quit or something to that effect. Let me ask you this question ladies, when was the last time you encountered a guy like this?

When you have the opportunity to work in the childcare profession, part of your job is listening to kids who always have something to say whether its a conflict with another child, a certain request one wants/needs, or simply someone to talk to. More often than not children want to be heard or at least someone to talk to due to the lack of attention he or she may not be receiving at home. Granted, what that particular child may be saying to you makes no sense at all, is hard to understand, or has no point whatsoever but just wants to talk and despite that fact you are giving him or her you full, as well as, undivided attention which pays off big dividends as they appreciate you for lending an open ear.

When it comes to the power of prayer, one wonders if the requests that you specifically want to be fulfilled are being listened to by God. We've all at some point in our lives thrown our hands in the air, looked up, and asked God if He is truly listening at all to what you've been saying to Him in one's prayers. Depending on what you are actually praying for is considered either non-important, semi-important, or truly important; it all comes down to how patient you are and how long you are willing to wait until one's prayer requests come to fruition. For the question can be asked, have any of your prayers been truly fulfilled which leads you to believe that God is truly listening to you.

Brenda Ueland said, ~Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life..When we listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other...and it is this little creative fountain inside us that begins to spring and cast up new thoughts and unexpected laughter and wisdom...Well, it is when people really listen to us, with quiet fascinated attention, that the little fountain begins to work again, to accelerate in the most surprising way.~ In the end, whether its listening to kids, woman wanting guys who will actually listen to them, asking God to listen and grant one's prayers or whatever it may be we're all considered the Verizon Wireless dude as this question is asked by each of us many times over...can you hear me now?