how do you get someone (in my case, a student) to realize that they likely are a large part of the problem that they are talking to you about. it seems so challenging to me to figure out how to help the eyes to be opened to see how they really come across.
i ended my week last week with a very interested and most challenging conversation with a student who was sharing about some things in his life that have been very challenging, and i just could not help but keep coming back to the feeling that he is bringing a lot of these feelings and emotions on himself and that he doesn't realize that or see that in the least bit.
i have been praying that God will help me to ask more and better questions and i think this is the perfect opportunity. i am striving to figure out what questions i need to ask and how i need to ask them in order to be able to really help him to discover where he is at. that seems worlds more powerful than just telling him that that is how he comes across. it seems so very challenging to me, but that is the way that God brings us to greatness so often, it is through challenging times that God brings us to greatness.
therefore, i will continue to seek out the right questions in hopes that he will see things differently.
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