Hearing Well

Forgive the times initially 
I listened to your spoken words
Thinking that I understood 
Yet your heart I had not heard 

Intention was not to dismiss 
Heavy burdens of your soul
That you could not voice yourself 
Perhaps you did not fully know 

Communication’s awful miss 
Not hearing clearly deepest cries 
Meaning lost, attention’s guess 
Loneliness the lullaby 

Searching life long to be heard 
He who knows souls fully well 
Beyond one’s words of utterance 
Hears the truth hearts long to tell 

Oh, LORD, in fleeting days to come 
Grant us gifts of hearing well 
Mend our misperception’s gaps
Heal misunderstanding’s quell 

Psalms 10:17 NKJV
“Lord, You have heard the desire of the humble; You will prepare their heart; You will cause Your ear to hear,”

Ephesians 4:32 
“And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.”