A little girl came home from school with a drawing she’d made in class.
She danced into the kitchen where her mother was preparing dinner.
“Mom, guess what?” she squealed, waving the drawing.
Her mother never looked up. “What?” she said, tending to the pots.
“Guess what?” the child repeated, waving the drawing again.
“What?” the mother said, tending now to her plates.
“Mom, you’re not listening.”
“Yes, I am listening, sweetie.”
“Mom,” the child said, “you’re not listening with your eyes.”
When children talk, don’t listen only with your ears. Instead, ‘listen’ with every fiber of your being, wholeheartedly, in the spirit that God listens to each and every one of us.