Haleigh Lovell

When I ask you to listen to meand you start to give me advice,you have not done what I asked.When I ask you to listen to meand you begin to tell me why I shouldn__ feel that way,__ou are trampling on my feelings.When I ask you to listen to meand 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.Not talk or do__ust hear me.I can do for myself. I__ not helpless.Maybe discouraged and faltering, but not helpless.When you do something for me that I can, and need to do for myself,__ou contribute to my fear and weakness. But when you accept as a simple factthat I am feeling what I feel no matter how irrational it might be,__hen I can get on with understanding what is behind this feeling.Perhaps that is why prayer works for so many people.God is silent and He doesn__ give advice or try to fix things.He 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.Then I__l listen to you.