How to improve your listening skills:
1 talk less
2 do not interrupt
3 maintain direct eye contact
4 put your phone down
5 listen with your eyes; look for the unsaid
6 be interested
7 if you are waiting for a pause, so that you can speak, then you're not actively listening
To continue in atheism, I'd need to believe nothing produces everything, non-life produces life, randomness produces fine-tuning, chaos produces information, unconsciousness produces consciousness, and non-reason produces reason. I just didn't have that much faith.
Nazareth was the hellhole, armpit, wasteland of the first century, a “nothing-good” place filled with “no-good” people (Jn1:43-46). Yet God does the best among the worst, the least, the despised and the forgotten.