Three Thoughts on Mentoring

We close out our week about mentoring with a few thoughts from wise people. Do you have a hunger for being mentored? Are you open to mentoring? What is God saying in all of this?

The soul often speaks through longing.
- Sue Monk Kidd

You must go to the scene of the action, first, because people put more faith in their eyes than in their ears, and second, because the way is long if one follows precepts, but short and helpful, if one follows patterns.
- Seneca

Spiritual direction takes place when two people agree to give their full attention to what God is doing in one (or both) of their lives and seek to respond in faith.... Whether planned or unplanned, three convictions underpin these meetings: (1) God is always doing something: an active grace is shaping this life into a mature salvation; (2) responding to God is not sheer guesswork: the Christian community has acquired wisdom through the centuries that provides guidance; (3) each soul is unique: no particular wisdom can simply be applied without discerning the particulars of this life, this situation.
- Eugene Peterson