Listening with the heart
I find it difficult and discouraging to understand how men
today have lost the ability to listen. The vast majority of us are willing in a
clear and punctual way to express what we have in our hearts and what we are
concerned with in our spirit, as a kind of itch that requires being
satiated with the tip of the sharp ears of our few listeners who Suddenly, and
as if the inability to listen was an epidemic, they seem to have strayed in the
twilight of the perplexed distance of disinterest and hesitation. We are ready
to be heard at all, but we do not know or want to listen to anyone other than
our own internal complaints, imskills, disagreements, struggles and contradictions.
The nonsense is greater when we are required in the mutual relationship and we
do not have the courage and, worst of all, the certainty that we will do it
properly to keep alive the relationship with the other or others, even with the
members of our own family.
Listening requires a capacity in which the rest of the
senses of the body participate, but not only this, but of the active
disposition of a temperate and gentle heart, which under that condition
delivers everything from itself to emptying. However, the current perspective
of human beings is disfigures by the effect of a disproportion between the
whole and deeply important of a person and what is proposed by the current
technological civilization, and it is appropriate to say, many of us welcome I
welcome despite the detemperance that projects in our "intimate"
interpersonal relationships with our true friendships. Listening has become a
terrible present challenge of unavoidable hopelessness for many of us in such a
way that, however difficult it may seem to believe, has been associated with
increasing forms of signs of sadness and depression in our society, and growing
ever with tints of alarm in our lives. Thus, and with ample unconcern, we bet
on a society with many in need of being heard and an offer of listening in
decline, and very little we do to diminish this condition. The result of this
current circumstance of not developing that ability to listen with real
interest to others in their problems and conflicts and/or, if possessing that
ability, not be in a position to put it into practice for the benefit of others
when it is necessary is in situations of personal, family and social conflict.
I hope we can become better christians, citizens, brothers,
comrades and friends attentive to the needs of others, always with the
willingness to use the ears of the heart more than the pair of ears that hang
on both sides of the face. The listening will fill us with great strength and
understanding because it is widely recognized that the one who provides without
limits receives the double, recognizing that this action of aid is not in order
to receive, but that it turns out to be the effect of giving with filial love
to Those who require it at a certain time in their lives. God bless you
forever.
