Mentor

I must have been four years old when my grandmother and great aunts got hold of me and taught me to read, they were all teachers and thought it would be an excellent idea to do so. It was great but in school I often got bored as I would grab my textbooks or prescribed books early in the year and read them all at breakneck speed.
As I grew older I voraciously consumed the contents of both the school and local library. But one book has got me coming back time and time again, it is my Mentor, my Bible.
Other people have had mentors in their lives, mine has been the Bible, sometimes neglected but always at my bedside, within reach when needed in the past and these days once again a regularly read book. I have always been able to find answers to problems in life in it's pages, pages that now bear witness to my life with tear stains, some torn pages as I looked for verses in haste and filled with underlined passages and notes to self. Each mark and line a moment in time when I was taught another lesson in the path to God. Another lesson in being the man He wants me to be. I think I could not have asked for a better mentor...
"Mentor: Someone whose hindsight can become your foresight."

For those who wondered

I was chided for not blogging yesterday but the truth is that after watching Survivor Cook Island I was tuckered out as well as not feeling very inspired to write anything, at least I did get Lesson 1 done for Donna and am glad to see it worked.
I am quite amazed how good this makes me feel that someone found my instructions useful. Makes me feel that the idea of being a mentor is something very worthwhile.
I have almost finished The Wall (Title may change) and will be posting as soon as I finish all the links and final polishing, it is not a long read but another page from my heart...
Tomorrow is round 2 of a very personal drama and I am not looking forward to another wasted and stressful day but I know we are in the Best Hands and eventually it will end well. It just breaks my heart that it is so unnecessary for L to have to go through all this. Incompetence and sheer stupidity is one thing but when it is done with malice as well it is unforgivable. So a prayer or two would be appreciated.
I found out that KatieB and my son M are both named for "Gift from God", quite a coincidence?
"You know, the courts may not be working any more, but as long as everyone is videotaping everyone else, justice will be done." Matt Groening (1954 - ), The Simpsons