{"id":6648,"date":"2021-06-29T14:18:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T22:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=6648"},"modified":"2021-06-29T14:18:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T22:18:42","slug":"the-summer-reading-project-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2021\/06\/29\/the-summer-reading-project-listen","title":{"rendered":"The Summer Reading Project: Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Blog read\u00aders: Chi Alpha @ Stan\u00adford is engag\u00ading in our annu\u00adal sum\u00admer read\u00ading project. As we read through B.L.E.S.S. by Dave and Jon Fer\u00adgu\u00adson, I\u2019ll post my thoughts here. They are all tagged <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/tag\/summer-reading-project-2021\">sum\u00admer-read\u00ading-project-2021<\/a>. The sched\u00adule is <a href=\"http:\/\/xastanford.org\/summer-reading\">online<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1200x630-BLESS-6C.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"441\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1200x630-BLESS-6C.jpg?resize=840%2C441&#038;ssl=1\" alt class=\"wp-image-6649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1200x630-BLESS-6C.jpg?resize=1024%2C538&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1200x630-BLESS-6C.jpg?resize=300%2C158&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1200x630-BLESS-6C.jpg?resize=768%2C403&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/1200x630-BLESS-6C.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\"><\/a><figcaption>There are a bunch of cool graph\u00adics like this at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bless-book.org\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.bless-book.org\">https:\/\/www.bless-book.or<\/a>g\/<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week is the L in B.L.E.S.S. \u2014 Lis\u00adten.<br><br>The chap\u00adter was good but unex\u00adcep\u00adtion\u00adal. Lis\u00adten before you speak. Seek first to under\u00adstand before you seek to be under\u00adstood. God gave you two ears and one mouth \u2014 use them accord\u00ading\u00adly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These are prin\u00adci\u00adples that we\u2019ve all heard before. As in so many areas, the chal\u00adlenge is less in the know\u00ading than in the doing. If we all lived accord\u00ading to what we knew, we\u2019d be a lot buffer. Almost every\u00adone knows how to live health\u00adi\u00ader than they are \u2014 they don\u2019t need more infor\u00adma\u00adtion, they just need to con\u00advert their knowl\u00adedge into action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like\u00adwise with lis\u00adten\u00ading \u2014 just do it. One way to force your\u00adself to lis\u00adten is to ask ques\u00adtions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At Stan\u00adford the most com\u00admon ques\u00adtions peo\u00adple ask are \u201cWhat are you study\u00ading?\u201d and \u201cWhere are you from?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I like the sug\u00adges\u00adtions that the broth\u00aders Fer\u00adgu\u00adson offer for addi\u00adtion\u00adal ques\u00adtions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>His\u00adto\u00adry: \u201cTell me your sto\u00adry.\u201d \u201cWhat\u2019s dif\u00adfer\u00adent between here and where you grew up?\u201d<\/li><li>Heart: \u201cWhat\u2019s your favorite _____?\u201d (food, team, place to trav\u00adel)<\/li><li>Habits: \u201cWhat are you into?\u201d \u201cWhat do you like to do with your free time?\u201d \u201cWhen you don\u2019t have class\u00ades any\u00admore what do you look for\u00adward to doing?\u201d<\/li><li>Hurts: \u201cHow are you doing with _____?\u201d<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So go forth with ques\u00adtions, and lis\u00adten to the answers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blog read\u00aders: Chi Alpha @ Stan\u00adford is engag\u00ading in our annu\u00adal sum\u00admer read\u00ading project. As we read through B.L.E.S.S. by Dave and Jon Fer\u00adgu\u00adson, I\u2019ll post my thoughts here. They are all tagged sum\u00admer-read\u00ad\u00ading-project-2021. The sched\u00adule is online. This week is the L in B.L.E.S.S. \u2014 Lis\u00adten. The chap\u00adter was good but unex\u00adcep\u00adtion\u00adal. Lis\u00adten before \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2021\/06\/29\/the-summer-reading-project-listen\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cThe Sum\u00admer Read\u00ading Project: Lis\u00adten\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"When it comes to listening, it's not that we don't know what to do. 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