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Eye on the world: Mentoring youth
In “A key tool to battle education inequality: active mentors” The Christian Science Monitor reports that “only one-third of young Americans who need a mentor have one.” Some places are “adult deserts”—where there are large youth populations that are lacking adult influence, which is “a result of parents who must work long hours or have just disappeared from children’s lives.” For these children, a mentor can be a game changer in life. “Caring adults who show up consistently can have a significant impact on a young person’s development…. A recent Gallup poll of around 30,000 college graduates [attributes the value of] having a mentor to greater job engagement and all-around well-being.”
Ideas on this subject:
From the Bible:
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
From the writings of Mary Baker Eddy:
The rich in spirit help the poor in one grand brotherhood, all having the same Principle, or Father; and blessed is that man who seeth his brother’s need and supplieth it, seeking his own in another’s good.
— Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 518
[Divine Love
] is my shepherd; I shall not want.
[Love
] maketh me to lie down in green pastures: [Love
] leadeth me beside the still waters.
— Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 578
Related articles from The Christian Science Journal and the Christian Science Sentinel:
In “Divine Love is the Shepherd”: “The shepherd loved all his sheep, and they were valuable. He couldn’t leave even one lost and alone.” And “Our Father-Mother God is like the shepherd in the parable. God knows every one of His children, like a shepherd who knows his sheep. God watches over His children carefully, night and day. Not one of His little ones can ever be lost, or out of reach of our Father-Mother’s loving arms.”
In “Self-destructive behavior avoided”: “When I was at my lowest, however, I met a spiritual mentor who changed my life. She directed me to God as the sole source of my identity. She helped me see that I belonged to none other than God Himself, and that no one could change what He had made. I began to see that my human relations had no claim to or authority over my identity or my health.” And “We are each really created in God’s spiritual likeness. I simply couldn’t be someone God didn’t know.”
The articles above and others dealing with this subject can be found on JSH-Online.com or on CSMonitor.com.