The World Health Organization will hold an emergency meeting tomorrow and Friday to deal with a tuberculosis crisis in South Africa. They're finding deadly strains of XDR-TB, extreme drug-resistant TB that are virtually untreatable with standard drugs. The high rates of HIV in South Africa exacerbate the crisis.
I always feel so overwhelmed when I think about the people of South Africa, but I always try to remember that God loves them more than I do. When I read about XDR-TB, my heart sank. The suffering in Africa makes no sense to me. I don't understand how we, as the world can allow all the suffering to occur in Africa or in any other part of the world. I suppose we have to do our part as opportunities arise.
Could you take a couple of minutes to lift up a prayer for South Africa?
Remaining hopeful,
Grace
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Last Sunday, the pastor said the western world eschews the existence of a higher power because we don't experience, to the same extent as other countries, the widespread atrocity that requires divine justice.
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