BeGer is 30 years old, and lives in LaGlah village. She is a mother of five – the youngest is only 8 months old. She has been addicted to alcohol and opium since a young girl. Most of the time she is going from village to village seeking work so she can purchase more opium. She is very pretty and her children love her, but she cannot take care of her children, her baby or herself, nor can she do anything worthwhile because all she can think about is getting opium. Her house is disintegrating, she has no firewood collected for cooking or for rainy season. Many of her belongings and blankets and clothes are strewn on the ground under her house, muddy and wet.
This tears my heart out because I love her and have known her a long time. Her brother, PaJew amazes me. He is night and day different. He has none of the bad habits and has just been baptized into our church and has been seeking a closer walk with God ever since, and here his whole family including his mother and grandmother are all in the same horrible condition.
Recently BeGer burned her entire right hand in boiling oil. I thought parts of it were 3rd degree burns because she felt no pain there. I cleaned and applied Silverderm cream and arranged to take her to the hospital in the morning, as it was already too late to go today. When we came for her in the morning she was not there. She just decided not to go!
We made a special trip all the way to MaeSot to buy cold pressed extra virgin olive oil so we could treat that burn and help her recover the use of the hand. When we returned – alas – she had gone to another village for opium! We returned on the motorbike that evening and she still was not home. The next morning we made the trip to her house again. Praise the Lord she was there! We treated her, debrided her hand, exercised her fingers and taught her how to take care of herself. As time passes by her hand is improving. In spite of her lifestyle the kind heart of Jesus is healing her hand.
Some of you have read about this in FaceBook and have been concerned, so I wanted you to have this update! Thank you for your prayers and your suggestions.
So many times we have travelled far to get the supplies needed for special cases, but when we return, the people either don’t want it, or don’t use it, or go to the devil worship rituals instead. Consequently they get worse and never recover properly etc. ect. Yet Jesus says:
“In as much as ye have done it to the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto Me!” Matthew 25:40
How encouraging is that?!! Let’s keep on helping others no matter what the cost!