I realise that the role and purpose of the media is to report news to the people, but am I alone in thinking that these days virtually everything considered newsworthy is 'bad' news, calculated to depress and spread fear and confusion to readers and viewers. The worldwide corona-19 virus with its apparently infinite number of possible mutations, but strangely coherent spread throughout the world, the uncertainty of the Brexit negotiations, the corruption endemic in the Presidential election in the USA with its fearful Godless consequences envisaged by those many good people who care but who are virtually helpless to prevent it; all these scenarios fit ideally into the strategy of those powerful interests planning the great Reset and intent on One-world government, with its design of universal control over all peoples. The strategy appears to have started according to plan, with nations falling over themselves to vaccinate everybody against covid-19, using vaccines which are not fully tested, many of which utilise foetal cells from aborted babies in their testing and/or manufacture, and the contents of which have not been fully revealed by the manufacturers, leading to great suspicion and distrust as to what is actually being injected into people's bodies. Control, control, control, is becoming more and more the mantra of the UK, Scottish, and other governments, who rigidly follow the advice given by their respective team of scientists and so-called medical experts, regardless of the increasingly evident signs that lockdowns, spacing and masks, whilst possibly effective in specific circumstances, as a general policy enacted on a mass population scale, combine to cause far more harm to people and society generally, than the disease itself. Recently I read an article by an eminent virologist, who stated that SAGE the UK advisory group of scientists and medical 'experts', did not have a fully qualified specialist and experienced virologist in its ranks, but did include four mathematicians! If this imbalance is true, then clearly the advice from SAGE on which the government acts, could have serious limitations, and could even be wrong. I also read recently that in at least two South American countries, I think maybe Chile and Peru, a medicine very cheap and simple to produce, had been found to be highly successful in the treatment of covid-19, particularly if taken in the early stages. Apparently this medicine is being more and more widely used, with a very high success rate, and I wonder why we in the UK do not seem to have shared this success, or even to have generally heard of it through the media. Is it because the vested interests behind our vaccination programmes, are profiting by perhaps millions if not billions of pounds, and would prefer that cheap, more effective and accessible alternatives to their vaccines, be kept out of sight and out of mind? Of course my understanding of events may be totally wrong, in which case I apologise and am quite prepared to take back what I say. On the other hand my understanding, though limited, may be somewhere near the truth! By the way, where does Almighty God, the Creator of the Universe and of all mankind, come into man's thinking? We should be on our knees begging God's forgiveness and mercy for the terrible sins of mankind, not least for the millions of unborn babies murdered annually in 'legalised' abortions throughout the world. The sheer hypocrisy of nations who casually allow abortion effectively on demand, yet impose personal and socially damaging lifestyles on whole societies, in order that relatively few (in comparison with the number of aborted babies) people do not become affected by the virus. No remorse for the aborted babies, but pull out all the stops to vaccinate everyone, at enormous cost to governments and enormous profits for the pharmaceutical companies. We should have a nationwide recourse to prayer, public prayer if possible, asking Almighty God to forgive us our sins, and begging His mercy on our country and the world.
I have felt the need to put some of my rather haphazard thoughts to paper, but the impetus for this was provided by an article in a recent edition of the Daily Telegraph, written by Tim Stanley, which I found quite moving. It provided the exact opposite effect to the normal negative and depressing fare served up daily by the media, and my immediate thought was to share it with others.
So here we go:-
"If you are looking for a good Christmas read, let me suggest Oscar Wilde's short story The Happy Prince. Wilde has not been served well by his posthumous reputation as an LGBTQ victim: it's one dimensional. He was also a father, a Christian and a socialist, the seriousness of these things softened with wit. Oscar was quite right to observe that socialism would never work because it takes up too many evenings.
In this marvellous children's story, a swallow on its way to Egypt for the winter stops to rest on the statue of a prince, decorated with jewels and gold. The statue is sad. From his great height he can see all the poverty in the city and he wants to fix it.
He persuades the bird to peck off his finery and donate it to the poor, which the bird does reluctantly at first but then takes joy in their mission and ignores the coming cold. Eventually the statue has lost all its colour; the swallow dies at its feet. The city elects to melt the prince down for scrap.
Wilde captures the agony and the ecstasy of Christianity. The agony is the fear that you have never done enough; the prince and the swallow give and give until they have literally given themselves. The ecstasy comes not in this life but the next. God asks one of His angels to bring Him the two most precious things in the city, and the angel makes for the dump, where he finds the body of the bird and the prince's lead heart. “You have rightly chosen,” says God, “for in my garden of Paradise this little bird shall sing for evermore, and in my city of gold, the Happy Prince shall praise me.”
W.H.Auden observed that human beings are taught life is “eat or be eaten”, but that in Christianity, the message is “eat and be eaten”, that we should present ourselves to each other as a gift, given freely. On Christmas Day, God gives us His Son and asks for what in return? Love."
Ack. Tim Stanley 'Daily Telegraph'
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' WISHING ONE AND ALL A HOLY and HAPPY NEW YEAR'
