hmm so true.

"It was one thing for me to get to know Billy, learn to tutor him reasonably well, and learn also that he was himself and not a stand-in for me and my assumptions and aspirations; thereafter, I learned to relax with him, share with him the kind of person-to-person talk that resulted in his finding out about my sweet tooth and my discovering that he, too, had an insistent sweet tooth..."
-- robert coles, a call to service, p. 179

i love this. so freeing - teaching need not be intimidating, and he's so true in this chapter about how i learn much more from discipleship times than i "should." :D