Promise yourself

Promise yourself to wake up every morning with a thankful

heart as though each day was thanksgiving.

Promise yourself to start each day with a new joy, joy that

is not affected by pain and, misery or doubt.

Promise yourself to make a decision as you open the door

each morning, am going to be happy to day.

Promise yourself to live in peace with every mammal you meet,

(if possible).

Promise yourself to respect he and she for they need it

although you think they don’t deserve it.

Promise yourself to submit to the other out of  

reverence to Christ.

Promise yourself to live out of the human nature of selfishness.                

but live for the sake others who need your selflessness.                                     

Promise yourself to always live with hope for tomorrow

for you die the moment you lose hope.

Promise yourself to be present for your own life before you

think of being present in another ones life.

Promise yourself to help those who need your help, the lame

who need your leg, the blind who need your eye,

the mute who need your mouth.

Promise yourself to respect you so that others will

respect you in return.

Promise yourself to work for everything you hope to own, don’t

wait for anyone to do for you something you can do yourself,

you will be more satisfied by your work than another.

( do everything you can do).

Promise yourself to hate injustice, love justice and be just yourself.

Promise yourself to speak good about others, encouraging the

hopeless, pursuing the unlovable and trusting your doubters.

Promise yourself to do only that which moves you forward leaving

that which seduces you backwards.

Life is too short to live in regrets, promise yourself to walk the                                          

journey of your life perfectly without regrets.

Promise yourself to open your inner ears for the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

Promise yourself to learn how to number your days alright

that you may gain a heart of wisdom.

Promise yourself live life so well that when you die,

it’s the only thing left for you to do.

Promise yourself to forgive and remember that you have forgiven.

Promise yourself to sleep with a hope that tomorrow is a new

day with no mistakes in it yet.

Promise yourself to be honest, telling the truth no matter its cost,

that you may be set free.

Promise yourself to smile to strangers, they might need it although

may pretend they've got it alright.

Promise yourself not to live in pretense of pleasing those around you,

no one will respect you, they will although do when you live straight.

Promise yourself to set your eyes not on things of this world but to

live in confidence that someday your life is going to end up in heaven

Promise yourself to have an open ear and after you listen,

speak a half of what you have heard.

Promise yourself to positively influence those around you instead

of them influencing you negatively.

Promise yourself to have a vision for life,

live a life out of the calling of Christ,

Promise yourself to stick to the vision you set in life,

let not ragging waves or wind divert you from your

vision and goal in life.

Promise yourself to live a life of purity, offering your body as a living sacrifice,

holy and pleasing to god, for this is your spiritual view of worship.

Promise yourself to be humble, you can’t be as humble as Jesus but

do your best to get as close as you can.

Promise yourself to do the hard, taste the tasteless just to get a feeling of

how doing it is, that you my fit anywhere life places you, you never know.

Promise yourself to locate the northern star wherever you are,

it will give you direction no matter where you are.

Promise yourself to do more than you are expected to do,

more than the words on your job description,

remembering that God is your employer, you won’t be fired.

Promise yourself to test the spirit, just to know the one which is from God.

Promise yourself to physically protect the weak vessels around you,

but they need your emotional protection

as much as they need your physical.

Promise yourself to love genuinely, not many love this way.

Promise yourself to point everyone to the saving grace of Christ,

don’t forget the saving image of the cross.

promise yourself!

                         BY: kiggundu wilson.

IS LIFE FAIR?

             Is life fair?

·         To the lame life can’t be fair yet not at any single moment, living helpless and vulnerable as if one deserved to be that different from others yet to those who have the ability to move and work are still living in poverty, helplessness and living as though they vulnerable.

·         To the blind there is no way to convince them life is fair especially when those with sight are the ones trying to preach the gospel. and how can the blind express to me the pain of not having sight in the way that I will understand.

·         Am listening to toby mac, I love his music, Without music I know not how life would be, This is because my ear drum functions, does music matter to those whose ear drums functions not like mine, how can I explain to him the beauty if music?

Is life fair?

Is life fair?

·         To the rich, life is very fair, more than anything else,

but is it fair for me who survives on less than a dollar a day?

Can life be fair to both the poor and the rich?

·         When I talk, people listen, they obey and act the same time,

what about me whose mouth is shut the moment I open it,

surely life is only fair to those who are respected, to the “BIG MEN”.

·         The lord is good, I have not fallen sick in 10 years,

Is life fair?

Is life fair?

             but is he the same good God to the poor little kid who was born of HIV. AIDS in Burundi?

·         I have never got into an accident although I travel on the bad roads of this nation,

would you say this if you were the man whose legs were cut off in a crazy car accident?

or the poor kid who died after a drunkard bus driver lost control crushing him in his house,

or the lady whose boobs were pierced by sharp window glass when the taxi over turned,

or the little girl who was left fatherless because the accident didn’t favor her parents,

or the bride who was left widow after a car crush on the way  to their honey money.

Is life fair?

                Is life fair?

·         While those with fathers are being proud for them,

the fatherless are wondering what a hell life is without a father to be proud of

·         This 18 year old girl is tired of her parents deciding what she does in life,  

they get on my nerve, she says. what about a pregnant girl in Brazil who is regretting

 because her parents were too busy to guide her step, only if they were there for me,

 she says.

·         Why is it that some have fathers in their lives while others are born fatherless?

but even in having parents, why is it that some parents present

while others are absent even in their presence,

 it leaves little boys and girls missing them as though they are absent.

·         A once strong Christian denied God because He allowed his 60 year old

sweet and dear mother to die, how can a loving God let my mother die that early, he complained, what does a 6 year old boy in Nigeria have to say to the same God who allowed his mother die during his birth?

Is life fair?

                Is life fair?

·         Been married for 17 years, I have tried having a baby but it has all ended up a failure,

 I just need a baby. While a married woman desperately desires for a baby,

 this 16 year old girl hates the thing that is inside her,  she is barren yet needs a child,

 but a fruitful 16 year old hates that she is pregnant,

·         My womb can’t hold a baby, I have had 7 miscarriages, while she is weeping,

 a prostitute on the street has had the same number of abortion because she has to continue with her business.

Is life fair?

                Is life fair?

·         Grew up from a loving family, with good brothers, sisters and friends,

 my mother always told me my virginity was the best gift I could ever give to my future husband, am 45 still with the best gift to offer him, but can’t find the man who I will present this perfect gift I’ve kept for all this time yet those who have it not are finding them.

·         I was beautiful from the time I came from my mother’s womb,

 I grew up knowing I was beautiful from my parents,

 I have for long therefore believed and that I was more

 beautiful than all my classmates and friends,

but why do those I consider ugly getting married and me the beautiful still single?

 Does beauty matter? I thought I was the one to get married first.

 Still single yet beautiful, am beautiful but unlucky.

·         While this 20 year old girl is having sleepless nights wishing she was married and wondering what is wrong with her, there is 25 year old woman who has been married for 3 years but wishes she was still single, because she would be better single than married.

Is life fair?

                Is life fair?

·         It has rained for a long time, when is the rainy season ever so

we get rid of the wet muddy ground that makes our clean cars dirty,

I hate prolonged rainy seasons, we say, while one is busy complaining

 about the heavy rains, the natives in karamoja desperately need the rain,

they hate the dry season.

·         Water is life, only not in Bwayise- Kampala Uganda because every time it rains,

 it floods into people’s houses, while it is flooding in Kampala,

 the herds men somewhere need that kind of rain to

 give water for their thirsty dying animals.

·         Farmer’s crops are swept away by the hailstorm every time it rains,

so rain to them is causing famine, yet crops are dying in another district

 because of the lack of rain, people are living in famine because it is not raining,

 so what is better? Rain or doubt?

Is life fair?

                Is life fair?

·         I know of a guy who refused to take what his father left as inheritance after he died,

 the reason behind his refusal was because to him the inheritance was too small,

he felt like his dead father was mocking and cursing poverty on his life to leave him

the small house, yet am friends with people whose relatives took all that his

 father left as inheritance, if it wasn’t for the greedy relatives, his life would be at

a better level than starting all over again as if they had no caring father.

Is life fair?

Is life fair?

Do you live in doubt of life, asking yourself whether the state you are in is all that life has to offer, living with the question, is life fair? I know not if life can be fair if we are looking at both sides of life, the question will not perfectly be answered by one who is still weeping because of what life has presented him in the past or the present, nor can it be answered by the one who is at the opposite of life, who is filled with joy and laughter because of what life is offering him. if it can’t be answered by any of the sides, then who can answer the question? It is so fragile and delicate that it cannot be answered by the developing movement of democracy. The vote to this question is a one vote election, it is only you can answer the question, Is life fair? It has been a challenge for years, and I lay it as a challenge. The answer to this great question will actually depend on what kind of relationship you are enjoying with your god.

Is life fair? The way you answer it will grade your relationship level and how much of your hope is based on earth and heaven.

Is life fair?

Is life fair?

I live in an internationally unfair world which is fortunately owned and controlled by a fair just God who adopted me as his son.

How can a perfect fair just God own a world that is imperfectly unfair? It is because an imperfectly unfair world needs a perfectly fair just God to make the imperfect unfair world perfectly fair.

Is life fair?

A YEAR OLDER

From when i was in kindergarten i always remembered the even numbers and forgot the odd ones, now that am grown,the same principle applies just in different ways. as i have been thinking of it all. fear that am turning 23, not that i fear getting older but the fact that there is an odd number at the end of the first digit. it actually seems like i have been 22 for the last 22 years. i just pray that this year runs very first so that i become 24. well, happy for the last year, it has been great with challenges of its own. 

This is the first time in the last years i have actually taken time to think of 11 of November as the day i was born. I know this is confusing for those who have celebrated there birthdays from the time they were one. other people have helped me remember that it is the day i was born by celebrating it a couple of days earlier of later. last year i was very prepared to acknowledge the day a month earlier but the day missed me/ missed the day. i remembered a day later. these were my actual words that i wrote in my journal. "it was my birthday yesterday", last year this time, i was at Musana camps in mukono, ( a branch of new hope Uganda that is being established to handle manhood programs) i was alone in the house because everyone else was gone.  i spend the day in a work shop all day long from morning till evening. 
It is perfect that this time it is a Sunday  it has given me time to think of life for the last 12 months. i went to church earlier so that i get some alone time, After the service, i went to meet one of my great friends who blessed me.

A year ago i had made plans of being in school the year to come, i didn't know what God had in store for me concerning the future. I spent the whole of Christmas holiday contemplating and seeking God to show me what he wanted me to do with he life he gave me. I must say i heard no voice from Him concerning the matter, it was left for me to take a step of faith into the unknown.
After sharing the matter with people i trusted so dearly in my life, it was decided at last that i was to join the NEW HOPE INSTITUTE CHILDCARE AND FAMILY. That lasted for two weeks, on the 25th of may, i graduated from there and there came another phase in my life. it is during that course that i Matt and Jamie who picked interest in me and me in return. It was then that i realized what God wanted me to do. i moved to Gulu on the 31 of May. I knew not what to expect while on that slow bus to the unknown land.

Spending fie months here, i now have clips of what to expect. The lord has granted me favor starting from Him, Matt and Jamie and the people i come across my way. this is not something to go unnoticed. its a big thing in my life.

Teach me how to number my days oh Lord, that i may gain a heart of wisdom.
 psalm 90:12
For the years to come, i really need this verse right in my heart. especially for the world out there.
I have also just found out what my really calling and gift is, it is although something that needs patience and full devotion to the Lord, am already excited and happy for what the future has for me. there is a whole world out there waiting for me to harvest with joy and jubilation. For this i need God because i need to do it for Him, and without him i might as well not do it.