Episode Transcript:
A long, long time ago, I heard a formula that just intrigued me, and I've worked with it my entire life. The formula said Hope equals desire plus expectation. I love that formula because what it says is if you want something desire and you think you're going to get it. Expectation, you're now full of hope. And what's happened to a whole lot of our children is they wanted to be successful.
They wanted to be loved. They wanted to have relationships, but it just never seemed to happen. So they buried their desire. Well, it hurts to expect something, you know, you're not going to get. And so when you don't want it anymore because you think you're not going to get it, because the expectation has been lost, hope is gone.
So here's what we can do for our children. We can show them that they can expect to be successful. We can model for them what it means to rise above difficult days. We can help them see success experiences in their own life. We can celebrate when they do well. We can celebrate when they pass a test. We can show them examples of people that have risen above and helped them start believing again and expecting that they can have a nice life, that they can have a good marriage, that they can be successful parents, that there's not really any secrets out there to life.
It's just going for it. And that's what it's all about. And once they expect begin to gain their expectations, they'll start winning again. And once they start wanting it, they'll start driving toward success. And guess what? Hope is born. So do your best every day to build hope in another human being. And you won't just bless their lives.
Watch what happens to yours. Blessings.
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