We do not have the courage to love. We do not know how to find the courage to love.
You work in a nursing home. You are not a manager. You want to be caring to those you are given to help. You want to be kind and gentle and take time with them, listen to them, brush back their hair, treat them as individual persons. You want to speak soothingly to the person who is fighting you as you clean them up and change their diaper.
But, your manager has given you 6 people to care for in the next 25 minutes, and others have said to not let yourself get too close to your patients.
Do we have the courage to speak truth to the power over our paycheck, our very job? Do we have the courage to say to managers that the corporate “philosophy” or “business model” could be more healthy and that it might even help the “bottom line?” Do we have the courage to speak our heart and our love in a culture that fears that kind of talk?
Where do we find this courage?
:- Doug.
