Week 4 Day 4 : MENTOR

I have decided that today’s e-mail will be about the greatest knowledge and insight of the mentor/protégé relationship. Episode #140: The Fatigues.  What show is this: of course…Seinfeld. Do you remember the episode? Personally I took a quiz on this show online and I got a perfect score. (By the way, if you are a Seinfeld freak, e-mail me back and we can talk about it forever.) If you don’t know much about Seinfeld, what is wrong with you? This e-mail could be worthless to you.

 

Here’s the premise… Jerry is dating Abby, a business professional, who also has a mentor named Cynthia. Cynthia is also a business professional who has taken Abby under her wing. Cynthia is also dating Kenny Bania, another comedian who loves writing comedy bits on Ovaltine and other chocolate drinks. George is preparing to give a talk to the Yankees on Risk Management, a subject he knows nothing about but was apparently on his resume. Elaine is having trouble with Eddie, a guy who wears fatigues all the time and speaks in blood-and-guts imagery. As it turns out, the reason he behaves like that is because he liked a girl and the relationship just kinda fizzled out. Jerry is a little weirded out by the whole thing. He thinks Bania sucks as a comedian and therefore Cynthia sucks for dating him and therefore something must not be right with Abby for being mentored by someone who dates Bania. All three of them go to see Bania’s act, which doesn’t go well. That causes Abby and Cynthia to have a big fight, which ends their mentor/protégé relationship. As Jerry finally wants to move forward, Abby needs time to get herself right by going to her next mentor… George Costanza. George introduces her to the subject of Risk Management in hopes that Abby can learn about it and write his speech for him. Jerry, meanwhile, attempts to mentor his new protégé… Kenny Bania. He writes some great stuff on Ovaltine. Unfortunately, the files areswitched, George gives a talk on Ovaltine, while Bania has an act on risk management. Needless to say, hijinx is laced throughout.

In the world of comedy, Jerry could be your mentor! “Ovaltine, why do they call it ovaltine? The jar is round, the cup us round. They should call it roundtine. Gold Jerry, Gold.”

In the world of risk management, George Costanza could be your mentor. Even though he knows nothing about it.  (I debated for a long time about whether to put the picture in just his skivvies in this e-mail.) By the way, I’d love to have this guy as my mentor, think of the laughs.

Or, Kenny Bania could be your protégé. For a lot of believers, they may be a hack now, but you could develop him/her into a real man of God. All it would take to turn a hack into a performer is a mentor. Think about the spiritual implications of that statement.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 I hope this e-mail made you consider the mentor/protégé relationship. Mentor someone today. Take them from where they’re at and point them to Christ. You’ll be glad that you did.

 

 - fellow mentor