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How many of us have run into a situation
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that just gets more frustrating the more
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you try to explain something. I've run
into
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it with my family when their only idea
was to
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"Get over it".
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You know the deal. This is by an
anonymous writer.
When I asked you to listen to me
And you start giving me advice
You have not done what I had asked.
When I ask you to listen to me and you
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begin to tell me why I shouldn't feel
that
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way, you are tramping on my feelings.
When I ask you to listen to me
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And you feel you have to do something to
solve my problem You have failed me;
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strange as that may seem.
LISTEN!!
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All I asked, was that you listen
Not talk or do --- just hear me
Advice is cheap; 50 cents will get you both
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Dear Abby and Billy Graham in the same
newspaper
And I can do this for myself; I'm not helpless.
Maybe discouraged and faltering, but not helpless.
When you do something for me that I can and
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need to do for myself. You contribute to
my fear and weakness.
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But, when you accept as a simple fact
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that I do feel what I feel, no matter
how irrational, then I can quit trying to convince you and can get about this
business of understanding what’s Behind my feeling.
And when that's clear, the answers are obvious
And I don't need advice.
Perhaps that's why prayer works for
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some people.
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Because God is mute,
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and he doesn’t give advice or try
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To fix things.
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God listens and lets you work
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it out for yourself
Please listen and just hear me.
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And if you want to talk.
Wait a minute for your turn, and
