Trapper: You should have listened to me,
pal.
Hawkeye: If the same thing happened all over
again, I’d still
make the same bet.
Trapper: On the level?
Hawkeye: It was a glimpse of daylight at the
end of the tunnel,
it was worth it.
Trapper: You paid a pretty heavy price.
Hawkeye: So I blew 1500 bucks in IOU’s…Gave
up three nurses for
an imaginary wife and family. Clayton’s got my butt in
his gun sight. My hopefulness remains intact.
The 4077 hears a
rumour of a ceasefire, prompting premature celebrations and plans for going
home. Trapper doubts the rumour, while
Hawkeye gets a little carried away leaving him in trouble with some nurses and
General Clayton when they find out the rumour was false.
Leadership without
hope is to abandon a vision for a preferred future and capitulate to the
present reality. Hope dares to believe
for what could be, even when what is seems overwhelming. Hope sees the possibilities, not the
barriers. Hope gives leaders the faith
to lead in the tension between the now and not yet now. Pastor and author Erwin
McManus says, “A life of expectation is the result
of living in the dynamic tension that exists between faith and hope.”
It is this dynamic tension that makes the present reality untenable and
drives a leader to step out in faith to pursue even greater things. In this pursuit, a leaders hopefulness remains intact when their
faith exceeds their circumstances.
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