Dr. Fowler's Mentoring Into Vocation

In his book, Mentoring Into Vocation, Dr. Fowler delineates the role and relationship between that of a mentor and a mentee. According to Dr. Fowler, whether the role is pastoral or secular, the relationship between a mentor and a mentee is “sacred and transformational.” (p. 12) He expounds on the nature of relationship and the journey as that which is relational and practical in nature. (p.32)
The author points out that the transformative journey of mentoring does not involve “control” by a mentor. (p. 63) I concur with this perception because the metaphorical understanding of church being a “vessel” is a preliminary requirement of transformation. Since from a theological point of view, death precedes resurrection, the platform and journey of resurrection requires a “molding” work.

Fowler’s statement about God being the “example of a mentor.” (p. 19) I will stress on the argument that since God is a parent to humans, and is also a mentor, then why can a mentor not correspond to the role of a parent? Would it be wrong to state that God is mentioned as a “refuge” and “fortress” (Psalm 91) and “under his wings you will find refuge”? Also, that a child finds one’s own parent as a refuge and feels comfortable when the parent has embraced the child? Referring to this parent and child relationship, I am reminded of the relationship that I shared with my mother when she was hospitalized in Pakistan, at three different times in 2008. I often state it as a time when my mother had no understanding who I was to her. For me, I became a mother to my own mother, took care of her in every way and taught her how to listen to me with my instructions of how to eat and sip. I did everything possible to take care of her, the way a mother would for her daughter. In this case, with all that I did, I was like a parent and a mentor. It was a molding her, providing fellowship but not being the formation. Was I wrong in discerning this