Can anything new be said about Christmas hope? Even this kind of photograph (left) has been made before. It is hopeful to me only because of this is one of my grandchildren.
Hope at age four is different than hope at forty-four or fifty-four. But it may not be different than hope in later years.
Some of the magic that rings true at four is nothing but a trick by eight and nonsense by eighteen. Cynicism takes up lodging darkening the life view of many.
One day a Divinity school professor said something that changed my view: "Most adults are cynics," he said. "But, some folks live long enough to learn that the myths & the magic are true."
Hope lost is hope revived when the truth dawns in our hearts that Love is as real as God.
-Reverend Erie Chapman
Journal of Sacred Work 
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