Journal of Sacred Work

    What can my fifteen-month old grandson know about Christmas joy? More than we think. He already understands that dancing is fun. And Happiness visits every time I play this 12 second video from my son.

   But Happiness is not the super hero whose muscle fuels life's highest energy. Hope is. That is what Jesus brought. 

   Of course, Hope helps. We may not appreciate this: Hope heals the sick. 

   Proof? Watch Hopelessness shatter the hospitalized & homebound. It does not take a doctor to diagnose depression in a patient's voice. It does not take a nurse to read despair in one's eyes.

   It does take training for caregivers to learn the art of painting Hope across the canvas of a particular patient's energy. It takes savvy to make differential diagnoses to discern which flavor of Encouragement to brew for each patient. 

   All patients cannot be cured yet everyone can heal by befriending Hope. The terminally ill fasten their eyes on heaven's light. Meaning is the life blood for caregivers.

   But many have lost their way.

   Radical Loving Leaders heal by injecting cultures with cubic centimeters of encouragement, doses of humor, milligrams of reassurance & cupfuls of energy-giving visions.

   The job of America's leaders is to infuse meaning. Hire Hope &  brighten lives every day. 

-Erie Chapman