A candle for Charlie will bring to light the plight of other babies

Gordie Jackson
2 min readJul 24, 2017

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-40708343

You know sometimes your life gets interrupted when a news story becomes so big that you hear it. I was aware of the Charlie Gard story though so focused have I been daily writing that I don’t listen to news as much as I did prior to 1st April this year.

Cee and I were travelling back from Huntingdon today when the 5 o’clock news came on the radio. Charlie’s father was reading aloud a statement outside the Royal Courts of Justice. They, as parents, had decided that they would fight no more legal battles as time had lost whatever hope they had that Charlie could recover.

I heard Cee say, “ It is sad” as tears came to my eyes. It is such a powerful thing to hear a parent speak of their love for a child and in this case so much so that they had taken on the medics refusing to believe there was no hope. The harder decision surely must be because of your love you surrender. Yet having done all that can be done I guess love brings us to that point, surrender.

We are moved by the miracle and innocence of a child born into this world. Christmas is no doubt celebrated more than any other festival because it is about a baby from whom we can take no offence.

Charlie Gard becomes another baby whose innocence has touched us and for me, Charlie’s story moved me to consider what I could do to help a child live. I searched on line and found that Save the Children receive text donations. In the seconds it took to donate I lit, in my mind, a candle for Charlie.

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Gordie Jackson

Speaks with a Northern Irish accent, lives in Hertfordshire, England.