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What keeps you from being more curious about another person’s reality?
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Moving towards a person’s interior world still seems like a risk. Understanding the importance of asking personal questions makes much more sense than ever before. Really desiring to know someone’s journey in life means taking time with that person and really desiring for them to share their story. Learning how to dig deeper in a relationship will help me be confident to accomplish this task.
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Assumptions keep me from being more curious about another person’s reality. I am quick to jump to conclusions and make superficial judgements. I think I know what they are all about, I think I understand their struggle, and I certainly have a solution for all their problems. There’s an element of arrogance and blind confidence that fails to acknowledge the complexity of another’s journeying reality. It is also the result of failing to recognise someone as an image-bearer whose life is precious to God, a life in which the Holy Spirity has always been at work.
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I can become very task oriented and forget to be a responder instead of a reactor. I want to learn more about how to be respectfully curious about others in a way that is not invasive but inviting.
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I am curious but I don’t know what to ask? I can’t think of the right question. I’m awkward. There are also times, when people share but I’m too busy or preoccupied with my own work or issues to be curious.