Via: elev8.com Of all the age groups I have ever had the privilege of mentoring, by far my favorite group is teenagers. Babies and toddlers give unconditional love and believe nearly everything you tell them, but they often cannot articulate their feelings beyond whining and crying.

In the first chapter of my book entitled Touch: pressing against the wounds of a broken world I tell the story of my dad’s pivotal lessons to me as a young street kid in development. He would live to tell me two things: “never play with God” and to