Silly to Serious

Today a funny mix up of words lead me to thinking about Lesotho's government in a new light. To give a little back story, this week Bryan went to a meeting with the Department of Health and Social Welfare. During this meeting, he became a bit frustrated because he heard a lot of really big words, but no conclusions. No action plans to try to fix the problems in Lesotho. The government recognizes areas that are lacking, but it seems that they lack the resources or planning to fix or prevent some of these problems. So they have meetings to discuss these problems, but they do not make the plans to fix them, or they fix something which is not the root of the problem.

Well, today I had a terrible headache and looked through the first aid kid for some pain medicine. I found some Motrin and when Bryan asked me if I found something for my headache, I told him that I took 2 Imodium. He began to laugh and asked if I really took Imodium which is for diarrhea instead of pain medicine. I also laughed and said, no I took Motrin but said the wrong name of the medicine. Then I laughed about how silly it would have been if I would have switched those 2 medicines, it would not have hurt me too much but it certainly would not have fixed my problem either :)

I began to reflect for a minute and I said that my mix up reminded me of Lesotho. This perplexed Bryan, which I understand, so I told him that I feel like Lesotho has some real pains in some areas and rather than getting the proper "medicine," they use the wrong medicine to treat their problems. They recognize that lack of proper nutrition, proper health care, and lack of education are hurting their country, but it seems they only have the resources to fix something else which does not even relate to these 3 areas. (I know that this is not entirely true and that they are trying, it just gets discouraging to us sometimes). Pray with me for their wisdom and initiative to find ways to bring healing and wholeness to Lesotho. Pray they will find ways to reverse all the talk of Lesotho being a 4th world country with no hope for it's future generations. We know there are those who are in the government who care deeply for Lesotho and those who are hurting and we pray that God will use them to create change. With God, all things are possible and He can reverse the poverty, poor health and lack of education. We are trusting Him and His plan for Lesotho!