Brendan McMurtry Howlett - Thought #13 - Fourth Hope for My Children

Last post here friends. And I'm going to give it up to my gramps, his fourth and final hope for his children.  But before I do, I've made a few changes that I'll explain. My grandfather was a minister in the United Church and so had a specific relationship to the idea of God. That word "God" doesn't really mean the same thing to me, but I'm still captivated by the notion of Faith, a secular faith that for me underpins my belief in theatre to nourish our hope in humanity and to strive for a better, fairer and just world.  "My fourth hope for my children is the ground for the other three: that they will live by conviction; finding their place in the purpose of creation, and in the community of those who put their trust in creation; carefully cultivating the means by which their faith is nurtured; having the courage to act their faith in spite of apathy and opposition around them; growing in the spirit of love, which is the chief of the fruits of our world.   It is not that I want to lay these as heavy things on my children whether they want them or not. They are the chief things of my heritage, the best gifts I have to pass on. And so I offer them, knowing that they will make their own free response."   Thanks everyone.