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What keeps you from being more curious about another person’s reality?
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I’ve been practicing soul care and so, ultimately, nothing scares me anymore. However, before relying on The Spirit (which, He does give us the wisdom and sometimes exact words that we couldn’t come up with on our own), I used to feel like I had to have advice or muster up some kind of support that would make things better. I don’t have anything to offer other than my time, my willingness, and then God does the work. Now, I am quite curious about what God’s doing in peoples’ lives, and even in places where there are immense traumas, I have seen God bring supernatural peace within it. I’m amazed at what God can do, if we truly rely on The Spirit to move!
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Opening a can of worm, and finding myself can’t handle, and fearing the other person who pinned his/her hope to solve his/her problem feeling ‘taken for a ride.’
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One thing that can keep me from becoming more curious about a friend’s reality is fear of how to handle the truth. I often feel inadequate in how to relate to a friend’s deep story and that feeling of inadequacy can keep me from asking good questions. I also have a fear of not knowing what questions to ask, so this lesson was very helpful to me in showing me that inadequacy is a tool, and that needing to rely on the holy spirit is a very positive thing.
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To be quite honest, I look at people for who they are at that time. I like to meet people where they are in life. We all have a story to tell. So is there reality a mask or is it the truth what they display? The truth is will we don’t know. Do we take the time to look into peoples eyes, you can tell there story just by looking in there eyes? Pain definitely always seeps out and so does joy. More people then not have had a childhood that they wish could have been different in one way or another. The reality is that we are one hurting human trying to help another.
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The arena of my professional world has hampered my curiosity, discussing such matters at work is risky, but I have ventured there, as of late I have done that more than in community, Church’s dont even want to go that far, so I choose my places to do so, save my energy of surrender and curiosity for moments I feel the Spirits nudge and or movement. I have been blessed in my lifetime for be someone many have opened up to, said more about themselves to me than others, how well I have pursued that for the Lord in most cases I do not know, bit i have tried and pursued more often than not to whatever outcome, hopefully the Lord has used it for His will.