"Do you always understand what someone else is saying?"

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Do you always understand what someone else is saying? It seems to me so often that even when you mean well, it’s so easy to misunderstand another.

For instance, a group was sharing their prayer concerns. A little boy, probably about 9 years old, raised his hand, and said, "Please pray for my Mom. She’s sick."

The group’s leader said, "Thank you, Johnny. Let’s pray for Johnny’s mom because she’s ill."

And the little boy said, "Oh no sir. She’s sick. She’s not ill. She does get ill with me sometimes, but right now she’s mostly sick."

For Johnny, there’s a difference between his Mom being sick and being ill. For the group’s leader, there wasn’t.

It’s not a matter of who’s right and who’s wrong when you’re communicating, it’s a matter of listening ever so closely to understand what the other person is talking about.

How well do you listen? Ask God to help you listen from the heart as you listen to life and make a life, not just a living today.

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