Let us love one another in 2009
Jan 05, 2009
We thank the good Lord for giving us a lease of life as we start 2009. Looking at the events of 2008 in the realm of politics, religion, culture and the economy, it seems we are living in a vicious cycle of our own lives. Same old corruption, infighting b
Deo Tumusiime
We thank the good Lord for giving us a lease of life as we start 2009. Looking at the events of 2008 in the realm of politics, religion, culture and the economy, it seems we are living in a vicious cycle of our own lives. Same old corruption, infighting between traditional groups, unbalanced economy and game-playing by religious institutions plus the biting poverty.
For those still grabbing the most they can from the poor thinking that the world is about to end, theirs might end before their targets. It is about time Ugandans lived in harmony as brothers and sisters, stopped living as though the world is ending today, because we found the world here and shall all leave it when our time comes.
It is important we left this world a better place for the future generations to come or better still intact the way we found it.
As we start the year, let us search our hearts and ask how many people we have blessed in 2008. It is vital we clear our hearts of all the unbecoming acts such that when the spirit of the Lord is to come into out hearts, he finds us spotlessly clean.
I know a number of people had beautiful plans for the Year 2009 and indeed many years ahead, but because someone used his authority to deny them a chance, they never lived to realise their programmes.
Many innocent children were victims of child sacrifice, many women were hacked to death by their so-called loved ones, others died in accidents, disease and hunger. For all these, it could be said that their world indeed came to an end, but how cruel life could turn out for those that forced their sudden demise.
We all do not know how we came into this world, save for the fact that we were manufactured by our parents. This obscurity of our origin has made many people to take advantage by suggesting that all death is occasioned by the one who created us. Perhaps not; because it is not God who tells people to chop off a wife’s neck, and it is not God who tells Joseph Kony to murder people in hundreds in a church in cold blood.
God wants us to live happily and harmoniously and to treat each other in love and brotherhood. This is my prayer for all Ugandans in the Year 2009.
The writer is a journalist
We thank the good Lord for giving us a lease of life as we start 2009. Looking at the events of 2008 in the realm of politics, religion, culture and the economy, it seems we are living in a vicious cycle of our own lives. Same old corruption, infighting between traditional groups, unbalanced economy and game-playing by religious institutions plus the biting poverty.
For those still grabbing the most they can from the poor thinking that the world is about to end, theirs might end before their targets. It is about time Ugandans lived in harmony as brothers and sisters, stopped living as though the world is ending today, because we found the world here and shall all leave it when our time comes.
It is important we left this world a better place for the future generations to come or better still intact the way we found it.
As we start the year, let us search our hearts and ask how many people we have blessed in 2008. It is vital we clear our hearts of all the unbecoming acts such that when the spirit of the Lord is to come into out hearts, he finds us spotlessly clean.
I know a number of people had beautiful plans for the Year 2009 and indeed many years ahead, but because someone used his authority to deny them a chance, they never lived to realise their programmes.
Many innocent children were victims of child sacrifice, many women were hacked to death by their so-called loved ones, others died in accidents, disease and hunger. For all these, it could be said that their world indeed came to an end, but how cruel life could turn out for those that forced their sudden demise.
We all do not know how we came into this world, save for the fact that we were manufactured by our parents. This obscurity of our origin has made many people to take advantage by suggesting that all death is occasioned by the one who created us. Perhaps not; because it is not God who tells people to chop off a wife’s neck, and it is not God who tells Joseph Kony to murder people in hundreds in a church in cold blood.
God wants us to live happily and harmoniously and to treat each other in love and brotherhood. This is my prayer for all Ugandans in the Year 2009.
The writer is a journalist