Noah Otis is ok! Hallelujah. Now home safe. #FathersDay was more dramatic than we had planned. Without going into details, just prior to lunch we had to rush the lil’ fella to hospital. He had an overnight stay & received wonderful care.

I want to thank our fam, friends, our global “Liberating Sunday School” community, our little collective we’ve started sharing Communion with on Sunday’s & @trinitychgo for their prayers, love and support.

We praise God for the brilliant medical team that attended to our little fella and, importantly, all those who have worked hard for socialised medicine in Australia. We paid nothing. Not a cent.

Our baby had world class access to specialists, doctors, nurses, x-rays, ultrasounds, our own room, meals, including a choice of meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner for mum, a bed next to baby, access to pastoral care (a pastor, priest, rabbi or monk)...

...access to a chapel in the hospital, world class medical technology... and it didn’t cost us anything. NOTHING. Im so thankful for all those who have struggled (and continue to!) for Australia to have a medical system that cares for all.

Can you imagine, that for so many in the poorest nations in the world (and scandalously, the richest), this all seems like a utopian fantasy?

Let’s continue to work for a world where grace is a social reality for all, where mercy becomes policy not a luxury limited to the rich, and where basic human rights like healthcare is universalised because we priories hurting people over corporate profits.

Miracles should not have to be depended upon because societies have allowed perverse Principalities and Powers to organise themselves against the Divine mandate to care for the sick.

To quote the Apostle James, “You foolish person, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless?” Any spirituality that resists the ‘royal law’ or ‘golden rule’ of ‘love of neighbour’ becoming how a society organises itself -while praying for miracles- is diabolical.

Every child deserves the kind of treatment our Noah Otis received in the last 24 hours. By God’s grace, let’s work for a world where this is reality for all.