Listening
Listening to a friend, loved one or God.
Lord, help me to not be so preoccupied with what I am thinking or doing, that I miss what you just told me.
It seems a little crazy that I would feel that I don't have enough time to do things I want to do. But it seems that I just have to choose what is most important at the moment and how much time to give to it. Things that are on my mind to concentrate on are often altered by interruption and they may go undone and often are forgotten altogether. A good deal of my attention is given to audio broadcasts. Sometimes I have these available on recording but often it is something that just happens to be on at some particular moment. If a phone call or even another thought that takes my thoughts away from what I am listening to happens, then I am apt to lose any or at least some insight that I might have gained from that listening. If in a transcript or book, I could get back to it. But normally, it is just lost in the maize of thoughts of the day. Hopefully I can retain a few good thoughts or insight for the day. Think I will just trust God to impress the more important things in my memory.
Lord, help me to not be so preoccupied with what I am thinking or doing, that I miss what you just told me.
It seems a little crazy that I would feel that I don't have enough time to do things I want to do. But it seems that I just have to choose what is most important at the moment and how much time to give to it. Things that are on my mind to concentrate on are often altered by interruption and they may go undone and often are forgotten altogether. A good deal of my attention is given to audio broadcasts. Sometimes I have these available on recording but often it is something that just happens to be on at some particular moment. If a phone call or even another thought that takes my thoughts away from what I am listening to happens, then I am apt to lose any or at least some insight that I might have gained from that listening. If in a transcript or book, I could get back to it. But normally, it is just lost in the maize of thoughts of the day. Hopefully I can retain a few good thoughts or insight for the day. Think I will just trust God to impress the more important things in my memory.
