Oftentimes it’s easy to find someone who will give you advice; someone who is willing to lend you their wisdom to “fix” you. It’s much harder to find someone who is willing to really listen to you.

Really listening to someone means not only hearing their words, but hearing the feeling behind the words. It means putting yourself in their shoes in such a way that you can understand something of what they are going through, so that, as the Apostle Paul tells us to do in Galatians, we can “Bear one another’s burdens…” (Gal. 6:2).

Most people feel at least a little uncomfortable when someone else thinks they can quickly understand our problem and fix us. Such an approach says to many that the other person thinks they are so smart and you are so dumb, that they can listen to you for two minutes and solve the problem you have been wrestling with for months, or even years! This is why many people resist going to a counselor. They don’t want someone to make them feel dumb.

While most of us don’t feel we need to have someone “fix” us, nearly all of us, at one time or another feel like we need someone with a listening ear. Someone who will not judge us. Someone who will not imply that we are dumb because we couldn’t figure out the answer to our own problem. Someone who will listen to us, call in the presence of God, and help us find the answers God wants to give us.

If this is your situation, why not call the Bless Me Network? We have many listening ears, and we are eager to call in God’s guidance as we work through your issues together.