The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him: "What are you going through?"
--Simone Weil
Love is listening to our friends and really hearing what they have to say. Sometimes we find it hard to listen because we are so full of ourselves. We don't hear well when we stop listening and start thinking about our own responses.
We feel most heard when someone doesn't try to fix us or give us all the answers. Mostly, we need a friend to let us pour our hearts out, to tell our stories to. In giving another the same attention we'd like to have, we live by the Golden Rule, and we allow ourselves the rewards of true friendship.
Today let me bring a friend my undivided attention
