The Lessons of Dumsor for Ghanaians

BY: SESHIE, STANLEY

Dumsor is affecting every home, workplace and industry in Ghana. It is

corroding the economic gains of the nation, and crippling its

prospects. Ours is a generation whose comfort is inextricably rooted

in electricity. That is why if the light goes off, most of us become

restive and nervy as it means everything that makes life alive will be

cut off. Note that in this technology filled generation, the human

interactive family is beyond nearby biological ones as space and time

boundaries are being dissolved in electricity powered technological

devices. So, indeed dumsor is frustrating.

As it lingers on, the Government is nevertheless working assidiously

to bring it to an end. Or in the words of the President, "fix it".

Actions are defining steps constituting the works in progress towards

the solution. There are indeed visible signs to that effect, that when

all activated plans come on board, dumsor will be relegated into

history and will take a longer time to ever surface again. But this

article is not about the copious resultant economic fallouts of

dumsor. Neither is it about the Government steps and plans to fixing

it.

Rather it is about the general mindset of the average Ghanaian. It is

about dumsor in the place of worship of a prayer answering miracle

working believed existing God and, more importantly how it is

eventually solved there. It is about the largely stealthy

contradictory beliefs that they made the majority of us believed to

the benefit of the few perpetuating this grand scam business called

religion. Hence let us situate this persisting dumsor in our daily

worldview.

Ghana is a nation full of people who believed in prayer and miracle.

And there are people that are known for effecting miracle wrecking

prayers. Or so is the belief. There are traditional priests believed

to make money from anything, especially from blood of animals and

humans. There are Imams who equally can conjure up all sorts of

solutions for any mentioned problems using the quran. Hey, don't

worry; I won't forget the CEOs themselves. Yeah, Christians!! They are

custodians of all spiritual powers in this universe and can use them

for anything and everything. They populate every corner with their

pastors, priests, prophets, reverends, bishops, archbishops, all

wrecking miracles via the blood of Jesus Christ using the bible. With

these religious beliefs, of which we are convinced of their results

producing status, one must be of the view that there ought to be no

lurking problems facing Ghana as a nation.

Yes, why should there be? Aren't we assured by our imams, priests,

prophets, reverends, bishops, and archbishops that Gods answer prayers

and do miracles? That let us pray, and the rest is constellations of

miraculous solutions. That is why it is shocking but revealing that

this dumsor still persists despite all the uncountable supplications

of prayers in the name and blood of Jesus Christ by Christians to

Jehovah, Muslims to Allah and traditionalists to Mawu, Nyame. It is

revealing becuase if the entire nation is too big for these Gods to

miraculously restore sufficient electricity to, what of where they are

worshipped. The worshipping places of this prayer answering miracle

working God are not spared from dumsor either. But wait. Somehow

believers know thinking, and not prayer will solve it. So they resort

to generators to overcome dumsor at where God is worshiped.

Interesting. Really, really riverting.

So isn't it mindboggling that a group of people can aggregate at a

church, mosque or shrine powered by generator (effort of man)whilst

praying for miraculous(no effort man) solutions to problems in their

lives? Is dumsor not a problem in their lives since it is negatively

impacting on the economy? And if the prayer answering miracle working

God cannot even miraculously power the place of worship except a

generator is around, what then makes us think it can solve other

problems miraculously? Is it only for humans that charity begins at

home? If they can think to solve dumsor in the house of God, why can't

they do same in their own houses and affairs, rathe than expecting

miracle. Dumsor had revealed the deceits, lies and emptiness of the

supposedly spiritual powers of these priests, pastors, imams,

prophets, reverends, bishops, archbishops saturating the airwaves.

The use of generators to provide electricity to overcome dumsor in the

house of a prayer answering miracle working God represents nothing but

the effort of man as in thinking via conception to implimentation.

This reveals a lot that must not be overlooked about what we believe.

This by extension means, unless the effort of man comes on board via

actions individually and collectively, the problems shall persist and

keep staring us in the face. There is no miraculous solution. Nature

does not bow to wishful thinking. Reality is not moved by faith in

prayer. Nature is immutable to miracle. The persisting dumsor crisis

of Ghana calls for a serious national instropection of our general

worldview and how we approach challenges for a better future. The

simplest but overarching and revealing lesson this dumsor could teach

us is to continually be thinking of, and planning towards the future

whilst taking responsibility for our actions and inactions.

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