WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TODAY????

Author: Abdulai Braima

Our country is being savaged by, arguably, the most dreaded disease in recent human history. Our people are bleeding like dead hogs, and falling like rotten leaves in lonely graves. The dignity and care that should attend the dying have become practical impossibilities: more like paths to death. Hopes are fading fast as fear goes riding high. Being far from the scene where your people are helplessly succumbing to such dreadful malady is heart-piercing: it is an imperceptible form of slow death! From this distance, we may not be infected, but we are all seriously affected!

In spite of this, in fact because of this, we should not give up. We will not give up! This is a war- a war we have to win because it leaves us with no pleasant option.

We are a resilient race that have survived history's worst! We have, and continue to, carve our troubled path through empty deserts and dark oceans! We have conquered huge natural catastrophes and continue to bravely grapple with complex man-made calamities of every hue! WE WILL REMAIN UNCONQUERED, because the God of the universe will not let us perish in totality! We pray that he continues to clasp us in his gentle protective hands and completely shied us from the worst that there may be!

But even as we implore the healing grace of his merciful help, even as we continue to look up to his divine support, our mighty Father in heaven will be looking down at us to see what WE are doing to help ourselves.

THIS IS WAR: our lives are on the line! Our survival is under threat! We need to do THE BEST that we could do! When the situation of a people goes this bad, heroes emerge in their selfless stature and rise up high to answer to a call far greater than them: the call to help their people in times of a need immeasurable! These are men and women endowed with rare mettle and dare! We may not be blessed with many Umar Khans, but individually, we are who we are. We all have our many limitations, but we are not limited!

There is a lot that YOU can do, TODAY, that you may not be able to do tomorrow, or no one else may, ever, be able to do. Our individual circles are our terrains! Every pen mark, every spoken word, every prayer, EVERYTHING, is never too small to be used as a weapon to hit back at this menace!

Please do something Now, ANYTHING, to fight this war. Even a phone call to educate and/or encourage loved ones back home is a big stick against panic and hopelessness, which are the insidious instruments in the creepy hands of Ebola. May God give us the courage to answer to the call of our times! May he continue to guide us all! Ameen!!!

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