I'm going on a safari!
I've done a lot of posting here anyway.
God keep you all and by His grace I'll catch you all when I get back.

Whispers with the almighty

She did not deserve it that way
She had it all going
The prophesies spoke it all
Her prayers spit out fire
She had the beauty, she was anointed
But why, Lord did you let her

She's safe with me, no more pain
Its this time , only this time
That you will prove my word, my ways
I'm no similar everyday


Written in memory of a close friend that went to be with the Lord a few days ago. She died at a tender age of 27 and left behind a beautiful daughter, Abigail, who calls me beautiful auntie. Even a few days before she died, a Pastor prophesied upon her life that she is going to preach the gospel. But she never saw it come to pass. Irene, i know you are in paradise like Jesus promised you one week before your death ''Irene, am taking you to paradise''. Rejoice in paradise!

Class

What does it mean to be classy?
Are classy women born or made?
Is class something Christian women should have? Does it come as we walk in God or can we take lessons or...???
And is it something we should pursue?
Thoughts, anyone?

Just Outlast It

Even on his bed he plots evil; he commits himself to a sinful course and does not reject what is wrong. - Psalm 36:4 NIV.

I was overthinking last night so, like I do a few times every day, I logged on to Uganda's Independent newspaper website. At first, I thought... why is it so purple??? And then I read on... and decided to hit PrtSc so I could share it with a friend. I almost called the paper to ask if they knew they had been hacked because it was only about 7am Uganda time and when I visited the site the day before, everything seemed alright. However, it wouldn't have been appropriate to call the only contact I have. It's a Sunday so people were probably thinking of church.



I know what it can be like to have to secure a website and restore months of information. I remember praying they had backed up their stuff securely. The purple is not there anymore; the page now says Forbidden, but hopefully with teamwork and prayer everything will be back to normal in a short while.

Who would take the time to hack a website unless they were threatened or offended by it? There has to be something the Independent is doing right, and I don't think I'm just a biased Mwenda fan. Whatever the case may be, hacking was not the right thing to do.

Maybe it's the same with our struggles. Nobody wastes time on things that are worth it. Generally speaking, if it blesses you, you try to get more of it and if it offends you, you try to rid yourself (or the world) of it. If someone is trying to get rid of you then it means they find you offensive. It could be that in asking yourself WHY this is so, you will find the strength to pick up and keep going.

As I went to sleep, God reminded me that evildoers never last. Evil is like a random fly, buzzing around you as you work. If you leave your work to attend to it, you'll waste time and not get anything done. If you stick to what you're doing, the fly will eventually do what flies do: FLY away... and if it doesn't, what's its lifespan compared to yours?

Evil is one thing we are guaranteed will come to an end. We shouldn't let it defeat us. There are times when we need to fight, but many times, all we have to do is simply outlast the evil and let it wear itself out.

Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage... Micah 2:1-2

Oh Uganda,

May God uphold thee,

We lay our future in thy hands.

United free,

For liberty,

Together we'll always stand.

If only we could live out that first stanza of our national anthem!

It's a beautiful morning. I lost all my work when someone tried to hack into my computer/server a few minutes ago. I have no idea where I'll start or what I'll do but when you hit God-is-in-control mode, some things don't really matter.

I'm getting mixed stories about Uganda. Hopefully everything is alright - I can feel God-is-in-control mode kicking in there too.

This week I want to know: what can I do for you? A friend of mine shared with me just how tired she is of being used, and we thought about it and figured if you're busy loving, you won't have time to notice who uses you or doesn't love you back. Enough with consciously or subconsciously making connections just for my benefit. Now I don't want to know what he/she can do or has done for me. For every person I encounter, in every aspect of my life, I want to wonder what I can do for them, give to them, how I can help them... and I want to act on it. I pray that the Lord will use us all in the lives of others and teach us that it's not about gaining, but about serving.

House Arrest

With everything going on in my beautiful country, this I did not see coming! I was on my way to town and I got a phonecall telling me not to go into town. Riots gone bad and turned violent. And I freaked out!!!

So now most Ugandans are on house arrest for God knows how long! I wish I could understand how we get ourselves in such messes but here we are and the only one person we can look to for safety and help is the Lord.

So......

Lord I pray that you will protect you country an dyour people, birth in us hearts of compassion and peace and love, let us be united for there in lies our strength. Break all barriers of tribalism and pride and anger...free us form ourselves. Have mercy on us oh Lord. You are not a God who takes pleasure in evil; with you the wicked cannot dwell. The arrogant cannot stand in your persence; you hate all who do wrong. But by your great mercy we come to you Oh Lord, pleading for our land and for it's people, it's children and it's future. We take refuge in you, our hiding place.

We palce our leaders in to your hands and all the decision makers...that You will have your way in their decisions. Arise oh Lord, Awake and take your place, in Jesus' name I pray, AMEN

I must be the most unserious omumbejja. Am i the last to do a post? And this may look like a most unserious question, but I still would like know; is it possible for the house to have scheduled times for getting messy, so that we can have fixed, scheduled times for cleaning it? My sisters tried to invent such a schedule at home. It's hard to tell if the problem is a probable inadequacy to be efficient housekeepers, or the fact that there always 7 to 15 people living in the home at any time. Why is this important? Well, because some do want to get married, and no woman wants to get married with even the slightest fear that they might be, well, inadequate; right? Does an occasional, inevitable, messy household render you inadequate?

Too few letters

But I am poor and needy, yet the LORD thinketh upon me… (Psalm 40:17a).

It’s always a blessing to me when someone randomly sends me a text to say, “I’m thinking about you, just prayed for you!” I don’t know about you reading this but I usually picture the person sending the text and if it’s a friend I’ll think, this woman is supposed to be getting ready for an exam, how touching that she has set time aside to pray for me!

It’s even more amazing to me that I am always on God’s mind. Can you imagine how many things God thinks about, how many billions of people He has on His mind? Not just today, now, but also in the future – those who have not yet been born, but who He already knows before they are in their mothers' wombs. Those saints of His who are now in His presence. Those of us who look around and wonder what plans He possibly could have for us. Totally amazing, and yet He thinks of each one of us as though we were the only, only one on His mind. I’m imagining the miracles He organizes – person A will be at point B at time C, person D will leave destination E to get person F so they can leave location G for their meeting with person A at time H, event I will be happening to person A, but as soon as persons B and C arrive, event J will interrupt event I… and because of this, prayer K will bless person L across the world at time M… lol, I will soon mix myself up and run out of letters (evidence that a human being definitely can't orchestrate a miracle!)… but God is glorified in it all!

I can go on and on about this! Things like Nicodemus going to Jesus at night, the woman touching the hem of His garment, Lazarus dying while Jesus was away, Martha getting irritated that Mary and the Lord just “told stories” while she worked… I will never forget the snowstorm that interrupted my surgery… to many people it was just another day when they couldn’t go to work, but the night before, my sister and I prayed, and I was thinking, “God, are You really going to let them slit my neck?” And it snowed!!! I woke up that day and it was all white outside. All over New York and the East Coast! People remember that snowstorm to this day and they look at me and want to roll their eyes, thinking, “yeah, right” when I tell them I think it was for me. :) And honestly, sometimes my mind thinks, “yeah, right,” too, but then I remember the prayers and the peace and the miracle. My very own Valentine ’s Day gift.

One day I thought about how God’s eyes are constantly, unblinkingly on me, 24/7/365, and it really kind of spooked me! ALLLL the time, God is watching me! But this should be more of a comfort than a source of fear. In my afflictions, He is afflicted, in my joys, He rejoices, ahh… so amazing… Tonight, God is saying to me (and to you!), “I’m thinking about you.”