[VIDEO] Want to Help Someone? Shut Up and Listen!
This video applies to our Journey wherever our location, status, career, vocation, clergy, laity or religious. The message of being helpful with common sense of treating others with respect, the way we want to be treated: first of all, listening. Ernesto Sirolli's presentation reminds me of when I was teaching at a seminary in Zambia. Strolling through the compound, I asked some of the women how we might assist one another? A few weeks later they told me that the most helpful thing for them would be a sewing machine ( something that never occurred to me). We were able to get a few machines, a teacher and establish a Sewing Club that lifted their spirits, developed their creative skills and benefitted the whole family. Their sacrifice and eagerness to learn and to share remain a great inspiration, as some walked even miles in the hot sun with their babies on their backs and taught me about their culture. We all can contribute to building our interdependent Earth Community.
COMMENT: How does this video challenge society and/or you?
Saturday, February 23, 2013
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It drives home the point RESPECT goes way beyond a polite word or shaking someone's hand or jumping to isolated solutions. Real listening to another assumes that they have something worthwhile to say. To do all the talking disrespects another and their opinions. Goes back to "two heads are better than one."
ReplyDeleteThe folks closest to the situation know their problems and solutions best. Listen and work with them.
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