A Mentor is like a Conductor

A mentor helps the protégé to find his own unique voice, and freedom to sing that melody in his heart. He sees each life as an instrument and within each heart a potential melody. Each life "is rich with its own musical notes, rhythms and themes." The mentor helps the protégé to discover the sweet harmonies and to discard the dissonance. He helps the protégé overcome the times of deafness and compose a grand symphony of the soul. He helps him to release the waiting song within. Each life is a new song on which he uses notes, rhythms, harmonies, and melodies in combinations that have never been used before. Ultimately, the job of a mentor is to help bring out what in already there. .

Sometimes their moving melodies diverge and at other times they are again rejoined in harmony. Sometimes the timing is out of sync and the notes are flat. There may be moments of discord, but the music continues and, with it, others draw near to listen. In time, as each plays his part, the Composer's manuscript will be heard as he intended--as a grand symphony of life.