{"id":3991,"date":"2009-12-30T06:00:21","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pinkhairedgirl.net\/?p=3991"},"modified":"2009-12-30T06:00:21","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T11:00:21","slug":"listening-unibrows-and-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/?p=3991","title":{"rendered":"Listening, Unibrows and God"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today\u2019s post is from Kyle Reed from the piece of internet real estate, Thoughts About Nothing<\/a>. I pretty much met Kyle through Twitter<\/a> and have quickly become impressed with his candor and also his contagious passion for the Church connecting together. I am most encouraged by how he’s allowing God to use him in a big way\u2014and helping pave the way for other young people in ministry. He’s forming a movement called Mentor Me Project<\/a> that I hope he’ll write about here in the next couple of weeks. But in the meantime, enjoy what he has to say today.<\/p>\n

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I am really good at making eye contact.<\/strong> In fact, I think I am one of the best at looking into someones eyes as they talk (I am humble as well). I have a method for my skills that I will pass along to you the reader to better your eye contact skills. Instead of actually looking into another persons eyes, you want to look right in-between their eyes. This takes time to perfect, but it will come. I am so good, that you would have no clue that I am not looking you in the eyes and am instead staring at your unibrow. In fact, I am so focused in on this gift that I normally do not even hear what the other person is saying. Instead I let my eyes do the talking (or is that talking) and stay locked onto that forehead and show good “listening skills.”<\/p>\n

I am really good at talking about myself.<\/strong> You would not believe how good I sound when I talk about myself (Remember, I am humble). This skill is greatly complimented by the eye contact skill. I have found that if I make good eye contact it will show that I am interested in what is being said without actually having to be interested. You might think that these two skills could get me a long way with people, and to some degree they have, but I tend to use them the most with God.<\/p>\n

I can look towards the heavens, open my arms, keep my mouth shut, and wait with the best of them. But ultimately I am waiting to get the conversation back to me. Usually it goes something like this, “Yes God I know that you want me to be quiet, but can you help me learn how to have more peace in my life.” I use all of my listening skills with God, tuning out what He has to say to get to what I have to say. In my conversations with God I tend to try and play the role reversal game, pretending like I am God and doing the talking. I have found that until I become quiet and listen, God does not talk to me.<\/p>\n

It amazes me that listening can be more important then talking. That there can be more power in the way you listen then in the way you talk. I like what this old Chinese proverb says: \u201cTo listen well, is as powerful a means of influence as to talk well, and is as essential to all true conversation…\u201d <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Maybe, instead of talking we should start listening.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today\u2019s post is from Kyle Reed from the piece of internet real estate, Thoughts About Nothing. I pretty much met Kyle through Twitter and have quickly become impressed with his candor and also his contagious passion for the Church connecting together. I am most encouraged by how he’s allowing God to use him in a… Continue reading Listening, Unibrows and God<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-bloggers","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}