mentor ...

Mentor ...

To invest in. To spend time with. To listen. To talk. To encourage. To pray over. To enlighten. To admonish. To make time for. To carry the burden of. To counsel. To support. To laugh with. To cry with. To give. To learn from. To teach. To cheer on. To remember. To help. To hear.

To LOVE. 

Mentoring is something that the Lord encourages us to do. When we realize the importance of pouring into someone's life and loving them the way Jesus loved us, the concept and idea of taking someone under your wing, so to speak, seems only natural.

I, for one, am honored ...humbled, even, to think that God would consider me faithful. Me... The one person I can think of who veers toward the faithless side of things on a regular basis? Me... The girl who has single-handedly-jacked-up so many perfect and divine plans originated by the Lord because I tend to think my version can somehow trump God?

Yes. Me ... and guess what? He wants to use you too. 

Today God showed me a small, snack-sized, appetizer version of what He has in store for me in regards to mentoring and counseling young women and I can honestly say I am still in awe.  My heart is burdened for young women who need support and direction and love. My heart is filled with so many sweet faces of young women who God has placed in my life and who are seeking to find the very purpose they live for. And for once, my heart is solely consumed with whatever and wherever the Lord has for me in this life of mine. 

I've been through my share. I've had my fill of mistakes, mess-ups, wrong turns, helpless moments, and shame-filled regrets and now I am ready to be completely available to being used in those things for the sake of saving a precious young woman from the same pain. 

I love it. I love that God can still use me. I love that God chooses to use me. I love that He is bigger than my past and has nothing but beauty for my future ...     

...vanessa