CREATIVE WRITING | THE FAMILIARITY OF A MENTOR

Most often we are aware of how a mentee shouldn't be familiar to his mentor, but we sometimes neglect the disadvantage of when it is the mentor that is familiar to the mentee.
A mentee is a potential future mentor. Many at times, it is easy for a mentor to keep seeing that his own product is not ready, while another one's product is, and even more effectif!

Most mentors are motherly, not fatherly! for a mother, her child never grows up. At 50 she still keeps treating him as a 12 years old boy. Many mentees are frustrated because when they look into the eyes of their mentors, they see no iota of hope. There are some that their mentors don't believe they can try something. Everytime they are before them, low self esteem mode is activated.

Your son is leading praise, prayer, worship or preaching and you just sit on your phone. He's human, and your are his teacher. So if you don't respond, he will know he's not doing well and be questioning himself. But when a guest lesser than him in capacity comes, you connect! You are familiar to your own!

Support your own is not only down-up, but up-down as well. Many lose mentees because when they go elswhere, they are celebrated. you are celebrated, your wife is and your children, even your family members, showing that it is important, but you make a mentee feel that celebration is for others. the day he gets celebrated elswhere, he leaves you.

Young mentee, it is good to be appreciated, even God likes appreciation. But not to be worshiped, don't expected to be over appreciated at the same time. but be patient and know your time is coming. you might complain today and do the same to others tomorrow saying; "in my days no one appreciated me and I didn't complain!" Oga you and I know say na lie!

How will you train people, have a conference and you can't bring your son as a guest and treat him like one of which you know he's good in that domain, just because he calls you papa. if you don't teach him honour at home, he will not honour you. People use this loophole to lure sons to leave you!

Look at how in the movie, prophet suddenly 2, your faithful son who has been serving for years will lose his son and you will not call or visit for more than a year, while he sees you as his model, a close colaborator for that matter. Since he didn't end well, now his past grief was bad. If it were you mentor, how will you call that kind of a son with such a behavior?

Don't be familiar to what you produce, you can't guest your choir president because you listen to her everyday, but she also listens to your preachings everyday. so as you advise her not to fight be familiar with your priesthood, fight also not to be familiar with hers. As you prefare a guest minister because you hear her everyday, so is it too for her because she also hears you everyday.

Why will someone serve you for 20 years and you give nothing but you give birth to your biological children, they are 12 and they are trending. they minister in every service, and many platforms you create for them. Who will also make it possible for that minister under you, who has been following you for ages? Treat and believe in your spiritual sons like you do with your biological sons. I come in peace