Grandfather's Concern

I hope and pray that many lessons are caught from this drama. Some of them are the very positive African values such as:

• Attitude toward aging.

• Taking care of the elderly.

• Respecting them, even when you disagree with them.

• Including the elderly in the lives of their grandchildren.

As all these dramas do, it asks many questions and requires the hearer to come to some conclusion. Some of the questions are:

• Is it right to question and change traditions?

• Are traditions given to us or made by us?

• Can we know God or is he far away?

This and the next drama contain the essence of what these dramas are to me. Father says it in this one and Mother in the next one. I feel this came up in these discussions of circumcision--male and female--because it is such a serious topic.

We have a freedom in Christ which helps us look at our world the way God does, and choose. We worship a God who loves us and our traditions, when they are right and helpful. He also tells us what traditions are harmful or wrong. And then he can help us change them and make new traditions. If someone does not have Christ, or does not understand what he came to do, he isn’t free.