Blessing and Deep Listening

What are the blessings that come from deep listening?

My experience of deep listening comes from my Quaker practice of Worship. We enter the Silence, as Quakers call being in God's presence, listening, waiting for a message or light.

Quiet and still, I find peace, I rest, my mind becomes still.

I learn that anywhere I am that I may enter the Silence and when I do, God's Blessings are given.

Light is given to the person I'm with. In being faithful to being in the Silence, I become the observer or witness to God's love, forgiveness and healing of the brokenhearted, the oppressed, the abused, the one who is dying, the one who is being born.

The connection between God, the other person and myself is a mystery. Do we call it grace? Jesus' love? The gift of the Holy One? Great Mystery?

Question for your comments and stories:

What is your experience of the connection between blessing and deep listening? Please respond.

Blessings,

Judy