Happy Canada Day
Now that some restrictions have been lifted, hopefully you can celebrate this important day with your community, family, and friends.
As a family we have a tradition when celebrating a birthday, to both remember highlights of their past, but also posture them for the future. When celebrating our nation, it would be good to do the same. Canada remains one of the best places in the world to live and we can be very proud of our influential role in global affairs.
So how do we look forward? Over the West Window of our Peace Tower is this statement: “Where there is no vision, the people perish”. The men and women who founded our great nation must have had incredible vision to what Canada could become.
It would do us well to study the vision of our founding fathers and celebrate what they got correct, endeavouring to understand the values behind what shaped the founding of our country.
- Vision of freedom from government oppression
- Vision of a peaceful society with just law and order
- Vision of a place where people can prosper
- And the list can go on.
Can we commit to finding a way to embody these values, and allow them to express themselves in our modern day context without losing the core of what they are?
May we be a nation that has vision for the future, and the fortitude and stamina to build what we see.
From my family to yours,
Lowell Harder
