Meditations on God

The help you needed may be different than the help others need from you.

It is an honorable thing to be for others the kind of mentor that you needed yourself.

This is a noble goal and a powerful way to be of service.

As you grow, however, you may find this strategy to be extremely limiting.

Not everyone needs what you needed.

Instead of trying to be who you needed, the higher calling is to be who others need, but this requires a greater amount of compassion and wisdom because it means looking past and feeling beyond yourself.

Good mentors serve who they once were, but great mentors serve who is in front of them.

GREAT MENTORS
By Robert Van Valkenburgh
Meditations of a Gentle Warrior

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