Closing my eyes to hear

I don't like to close my eyes in order to just listen.  But for one woman speaking today, I tried "just listening."  Turned out to be quite a few words that made sense.  My confidence level influences my perception of sound.  As my hearing improves, I also need to "believe" what I'm hearing.  Does that make sense?

Someone asked me if I could hear the voice coming from a nearby room.  At first it was silent, then when the voice came back I told her yes.  She replied, "That's good."  I asked if she could hear what the person was saying, she said no.  I'm still learning the limits of hearing people so that I don't find myself thinking I should be understanding something when they don't.

The challenging voices of different nationalities trip up hearing people too.  I heard it today, an Australian saying the words 16 to 64 and the moderator "translated" by repeating it and at that point I realized that just like several others in the audience we thought she said 60 to 64.

I'm very pleased and thankful with my hearing.  It only gets better.  I feel God's hand in this, enabling people to dream and come up with the techology that brings such joy.  Yet with all this, He's going to heal it completely one day...no devices needed!