Have you discovered the importance of another? The one piece of advice I remember the clearest from my seminary studies was imminently practical: "Every person should be a mentor and every person should have a mentor." I have tried to put that advice into practice over the 25 years since I've first heard it, and the effort has been one of the best and most rewarding of my adult life. One cannot mistake the value of the other when we begin to invest ourselves in ways that count most--invest in humanity. Thomas Merton said it well in "No Man Is an Island": "Love not only prefers the good of another to my own, but it does not even compare the two. It has only one good, that of the beloved, which is, at the same time, my own. Love shares the good with another not by dividing it with him, but by identifying itself with him so that his good becomes my own."
(Dane Fowlkes, Pastor)
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