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Deep roots of change
The light switch went off in my brain as I stared at the person sitting across the table from me. The last few weeks had provided us an opportunity to explore life and the journey I had found myself on. His silver dusted hair captured his wisdom while his thin glasses provided a window to the depths of his soul and all that life had taught him
These characteristics of his had once been the measuring tool I used to qualify him as mentor, now being replaced by his uncontainable adventurous soul that knew how to love people well. This love had illuminated a new way of thinking for me.
He met me right where I was on my journey and didn’t tell me the “5 steps to freedom” or the “10 ways to find purpose.” He spent a good amount of time just listening as I struggled through my story. As time went on the steps of the our mentoring journey turned into leaps as I began to see my purpose a little bit more clearer:
I am a whole person, with the ability to live out my unique calling.
It was in this moment that change found its way into my life with an invitation to uproot some of the deepest beliefs I had formed about myself. Weeks prior to this moment I had expectations of what this mentoring relationship would look like.
In essence I was bringing the pieces of my life and laying them before this older, wiser, more experienced person and waiting for the answers to put the pieces back together. Instead of feeling like one big art project that had been glued back together I felt transformed.
“The best of mentoring is intentional,
moving toward deep change, for one’s whole life.”
…W. Roberts
Each step in the mentoring journey held no promise of making life easier but it did promise change. Transformation took place when the words above took deep roots in my heart, intertwining with my soul.
This mentor relationship had helped me uproot the lies and self beliefs I had formed about myself that consumed my heart and replace them with deep roots of purpose as I continued on my journey. These are the roots that are flourishing in my heart today.
I am a whole person
When I brought the broken pieces of my life to the table we did not pick them up one at a time and try to solve its problems. As a linear, list making person I have tried to live every part of my life in this way. Get one problem fixed, check it off, and move to the next.
This mentoring relationship challenged me to not see brokenness but wholeness. To not only see myself as a whole person but to live everyday in wholeness by understanding the 8 dimensions of life and how everything affects everything.
One question rocked my world and still does everyday:
Do you dare to live whole?
As I interact with others in my life I see an intentionality that was learned from my mentor. The intentionality that was involved in our relationship promoted deep change by his ability to listen and ask questions. Some of the deepest growth I have experienced so far has come from the thought provoking questions that has lead me to discovery.
I have learned the power behind great questions and I can’t help but ask some of the same things he asked me as I interact with others. In a surface level culture, great questions help me to dive underneath the surface and love people more intentionally.
As the steps of mentoring turned into leaps on my journey I felt a passion growing within my heart to replicate what had been done for me. What had once been a selfish desire to fix me was now turning into a call to help others on their journey. The whole process had left me in a posture that was less about me and more about how I could carry on this relationship to others. When we are in the midst of deep change God can use us on our journeys to meet others along the way.
“You, me, everyone we know has the potential,
the sacred possibility, to flourish in how we live out life.”
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