Tis the season of good will, except for baby Will: deprived of the specific care his loving parents desperately begged to secure from the NZ Blood Service who, out of hubris, simply refused to provide what was within its power to offer.
As a people increasingly under the strain of institutions suffering the effects of this Government’s unrelenting enforcement of an anti-human ideology, we should notice a similarity today with the tensions two thousand years ago which set the stage for the advent this current festive season celebrates.
If we value blind conformity above truthfulness and place our hope in money, science, and politics, the answers to life’s intractable questions will continue to elude us because they can come only through the Babe born to us; not from Government.
When we see our politicians mirror Herod’s willingness to throw babes to the sword to protect their agenda, we should note, if we, like Herod, pass up the promise offered by this Babe who became the Man who gave his blood for our sins on Calvary’s cross, soon afterward we will lose the child of truth also, then our way, and thereafter, more baby Wills will be in danger.
Rees Sutcliffe
East Tamaki Heights
