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When I ask you to listen to me and you start giving advise, you have not done what I ask.
When I ask you to listen to me and you begin to tell me why I should not feel that way I should not
feel that way, you have trapped my feelings.
When I ask you to listen to me and you feel you havae 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 to talk or do...just listen and
hear me.

I can do for myself! I am not helpless. Maybe dicouraged and
faltering but not helpless. When you do something for me that I can do
for myself, you contribute to my fear and weakness, but when you
accept as a simple fact that I do feel what I feel (no matter how
irrational), then I can quit trying to convince you ....and get about the
business of understanding what's behind my irrational feeling. When
that's clear, the answers are obvious to me and I s don't need advice.

Irrational feelings make sense once we understand them.

Perhaps that's why prayer works sometimes for some people....God is
mute and doesn't give advice or try to fix things. God just listens and
lets you work it out for yourself.

So, please, listen anad just hear me and if you want to talk, wait a minute
for your turn and I'LL Listen toyou.