Can you imagine how different Christianity would be if the disciples had just been given a book to read and to be tested on at the end of the reading instead of having a personal, in-the-flesh, loving friend-mentor?

This begs the questions for us: Are we the people we want our students to become? If your student becomes like you, what will he or she be like? What would we need to change to be the model of what we hope to nurture them to become?

Parents who choose to mentor their children actively initiate them and seek their overall well-being and long-term development. It is a lifelong relationship that is active, intentional, life-giving, responsive.

Mentors do not just disseminate facts, they embody a force of life, love, and inspiration. They become personal in their relationship to their "students."

Read more about this in Awaking Wonder.