Saturday, June 5, 2021
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:
Listening
Before engaging your mouth, put your mind in gear. — Anonymous
Our world is full of speechmakers who would serve better if they learned the importance of listening. The ability to hear is stressed within our group. It is true that we owe it to fellow members to tell the valuable lessons we learn while dealing with reality. But by listening, we can find truth from outside ourselves, too. Old-timers remind us to “take the cotton out of our ears and put it in our mouth.”
An old proverb says, “When the pupil is ready, the teacher will appear.” Another tells us, “Find a teacher and you find a friend.” When we learn to be attentive, we continue to be students long after our school years are over. Even when we read, we can listen well to truths.
One gift of being a good listener is to hear unexpectedly some truth I may have been told but was not ready to hear.
Hazelden Foundation
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