Turning Towards not Away (week 7)

"Satan knows that faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and His redemptiveness are enemies to his cause. Satan's best hope is to keep us from looking up. He must keep us fully absorbed with the trivial, fretting over our inconveniences and stewing over our grievances." - Goddard
Do you ever find yourself in this situation (this is from a book Drawing Heaven into your Marriage): "On the way to work one day Nancy asked me a question. I gave a carefully considered answer. She looked perplexed and asked me to repeat my answer. I growled at her. I felt the indignation that is so human: "Why didn't you listen to what I said?" and I would add "why didn't you listen the first time?"
The key to turning towards someone is this next part, we need to change our thoughts "I probably had given a reasonable answer to her question. But Nancy may have been thinking about something else. She may have been distracted as I was explicating. The irony is that I do the same thing to her all the time. I'm distracted as she answers my question and I ask her to repeat her answer." If we can be quicker to think the last part instead of the first part there will be a lot less frustration in our relationships.