When you give a listening ear, are you quick to answer, eager to give a response?
Or do you allow the silence between sharing moments to linger?
What spirit drives me to speak and which one to contemplate what I’ve just heard?
Do I converse so that I can be heard or so that I can know and understand another soul?
It is easy to have an answer for everything, to bend opportunities to my will with shallow words.
It is harder to sit in the unknown, allowing someone else’s words and feelings to have room to discover and be known without judgment.
In every conversation, either the spirit of self devours or the Spirit of service guides to light. What spirit will lead you?