Grace Upon Grace

Below is a sermon I wrote for a Sermon Series at my school.  It is a reflection of where I find myself in my relationship with God and others.     Learning to listen.       When engaging in conversation with someone who speaks a different language, you have to learn how to listen intently to his or her words.   As an English speaker, I can slightly listen to another English speaker and am still able to understand what they are saying.   However, when I am listening to a Spanish speaker, I have to focus.   I cannot ‘fake listen’.   As I learn Spanish, I pick out certain words or phrases, pick up on context clues, and am able to broadly understand what is being said.      However, I want to know exactly what is being said so I can train myself to hear it and then eventually speak it.   I narrow in on the shapes their mouths make.   I watch their hand gestures.   I listen ...