The spiritual health of a country determines the thinking, the attitudes, and the character of a nation. And our collective national character determines whether we develop or whether we regress into petty existence.
For some time now, Malawi has been suffering a disease of the spirit. Something one scholar described as pneumapathology – a disease of the spirit.
We are a nation crying for transformation, yet we resist change every way it comes. We are full of cynicism and we have no faith in ourselves as a nation. We want change, but we don’t want to change the way we think. We want to take a positive direction, yet are blinded by negative attitudes. We want to see everything negatively.
This is a country in which someone can sit down and create a story that so and so has killed his wife, and spread the rumour on social media. I read this story about this young Blantyre banker in one of the papers.
I feel sorry for this young man and the wife who was murdered by rumour. But where is our national integrity? Where is our love for one another?
Where is our belief in the Truth? And because most of us don’t have the wisdom to question whatever we read on social media, worsened by our Malawian hunger for rumour, we have made facebook and Whatsapp our Bible.
But I will count on you the Church to teach us the old ways of believing in Truth. You are the people to heal the national spirit because the Church is the Guardian of Morality. Please heal our souls!
And I count on you as the Church to assist Government in making a Malawian culture of Patriotism, Integrity and Hardwork.
Make us believe that God gave us everything we need to develop. And God made us to believe in ourselves if we believe in Him.
Make us believe, that in the beginning, God made us to love our country, and to care for the environment that nurtures our existence.
Make us believe that God made us to be a people with high sense of integrity.
Make us believe that God made us to achieve anything with excellence, if we do whatever we do with all our mind; with all our soul; with all our strength. And with God, everything is possible.
Malawi President, His Excellency Prof. Arthur Peter Mutharika
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