Monday, April 19, 2004

Reunited.

We all know about prophetic speaking, but prophetic listening means listening to others in such a way that we draw out of them the seeds of their own highest understanding, of their own obedience, of their own vision, that they themselves may not have known were there. Listening can draw forth out of people things that speaking to them cannot.
~Elise Boulding

I've known of this passage for ten years or more, but I'd forgotten, lost in years of paying attention to a different life, a different calling. I found it today, probably right where it's been all this time. It's at the heart of conflict transformation; so I put it into my heart.

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