Six sheets to learn to listen — because to listen is already to love. Organised around three verbs: Train, Understand, Serve.
Before any technique: to listen is already to love. The disposition of the heart that precedes speech, advice, prayer.
TrainOur God listens first. The Shema, the verb shama, sin as deafness: why listening is a spiritual act.
UnderstandFalling silent within, hearing what is said and what is left unsaid, discerning the true request before answering.
UnderstandThe three false postures — the Judge, the Adviser, the Spiritualiser — and the reflexes that, within us, kill listening.
ServePresent, empathetic, intercessor, sent: the four right postures, and the model of Christ on the road to Emmaus.
The long haulCarrying the words of others wears you down. Spot the signs, set a frame, lay it before God, be heard. For you.