"I've longed a long, long time for a guide, a teacher, a mentor. Yet it seems things are destined to be different and time is slipping away. I must learn not from the pronouncements of a teacher, but from the events and circumstances and the lives of many around me. I've always said it would be so nice, so comfortable, to have someone tell me what's right and wrong, where to venture and what to avoid. Of course it is true that I am rather strict in whom I would trust deeply enough, to trust myself and my life on his/her judgement. It would take someone well versed, well travelled and well experienced in all the ups and downs of many walks of life. It would take someone with a good heart as well as a good head. It would take a Christian who's overcome prejudice implanted during childhood, the petty pride of youth and the irrascible irritability and cynicism of adulthood. It would take someone perfect in manners and substance. It would take someone who, I fear, does not exist.

That kind of standard is exacting, but I believe it is the standard everyone should adopt. Not so that we all stop learning from those around us. To the contrary, it is so that we start learning from everyone around us. Emulate the good and help to alleviate the bad in the brothers/sisters we see around us. Even persons in seemingly most humble of circumstances will have something good to impart.

By that only God is exalted and no person or leader becomes anything more than a servant. "

-L.R

posted by Graciana@Home at 5:23 pm