Dear Friends,
I am hoping you are doing well, I feel much more compelled to write since I have not been able to meet you in our regular meetings due to my weekend babysitting. For those who are away from the Metro Washington D.C area I am always pleased to get in touch with by this means of writing Since God knows when I will be able to see you face to face. Our baby girl is doing great smiling a lot and sleeping very well, she has changed our lives so much already Dinnah wondering whether to quit work completely or not! Currently I am the weekend baby sitter and Dinnah babysits for the entire week. I can’t tell you how much more I have come to appreciate my dear wife’s hard work and God given strengths these days that I have been with the children, trying to cook meals change diapers and so on. I am pleading with her to let me take a second job so she can stay at home; I think my boys would prefer that too.
I am hoping you are doing well, I feel much more compelled to write since I have not been able to meet you in our regular meetings due to my weekend babysitting. For those who are away from the Metro Washington D.C area I am always pleased to get in touch with by this means of writing Since God knows when I will be able to see you face to face. Our baby girl is doing great smiling a lot and sleeping very well, she has changed our lives so much already Dinnah wondering whether to quit work completely or not! Currently I am the weekend baby sitter and Dinnah babysits for the entire week. I can’t tell you how much more I have come to appreciate my dear wife’s hard work and God given strengths these days that I have been with the children, trying to cook meals change diapers and so on. I am pleading with her to let me take a second job so she can stay at home; I think my boys would prefer that too.
TUGANE I KIGALI!
I have just been reading about great things done by our president H.E Paul Kagame and about his joy of accomplishment s as he celebrated his 50th birthday. Though this man is largely known of his tough decisions and a man of a strong man who has fought so many war and surely knows how to win his battles, Kagame’s generous and compassionate side has been revealed in many ways.
His most recent acts of generosity was a donation of Frw 15 million (US $27,000) to Rwengoro primary school in Kamwenge district where he attended primary school as a young lad in the refugee camp. He also recently contributed money towards construction of a science laboratory to Ntare High School where he attended high school with his Ugandan counterpart Yoweli Kaguta Museveni.
Many of us who have experienced life in exile especially the kind of life in those refugee camps, it is not easy for a young refugee to imagine rising to such highs. If you asked me of my future in those days that I spent in the refugee camps I could have simply ignored you, how could I think about the future when I wasn’t even certain about the present? I had no food to eat, no school fees, no cloths nothing!!!!!
Though strong men like Kagame inspire us to look past our present and less promising situations and aspire for a brighter future, The word of God gives us even more reasons to have hope and face our future with courage and strengths. In Matthew 6:25 it says “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?
The last part of verse 32 tells us that our heavenly father knows very well what we need, He has our future well planned and he knows everything that the future holds. Verse 33 is a familiar one to us, with a condition to seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all other things will be added unto us.
As we look for every opportunity to advance in our different endeavors, struggling to achieve those life dreams, let’s never forget that seeking God and pleasing him should be the target of our efforts, Remembering the words of Jesus where he asks in Matthew 16:26 What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?.
His most recent acts of generosity was a donation of Frw 15 million (US $27,000) to Rwengoro primary school in Kamwenge district where he attended primary school as a young lad in the refugee camp. He also recently contributed money towards construction of a science laboratory to Ntare High School where he attended high school with his Ugandan counterpart Yoweli Kaguta Museveni.
Many of us who have experienced life in exile especially the kind of life in those refugee camps, it is not easy for a young refugee to imagine rising to such highs. If you asked me of my future in those days that I spent in the refugee camps I could have simply ignored you, how could I think about the future when I wasn’t even certain about the present? I had no food to eat, no school fees, no cloths nothing!!!!!
Though strong men like Kagame inspire us to look past our present and less promising situations and aspire for a brighter future, The word of God gives us even more reasons to have hope and face our future with courage and strengths. In Matthew 6:25 it says “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?
The last part of verse 32 tells us that our heavenly father knows very well what we need, He has our future well planned and he knows everything that the future holds. Verse 33 is a familiar one to us, with a condition to seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all other things will be added unto us.
As we look for every opportunity to advance in our different endeavors, struggling to achieve those life dreams, let’s never forget that seeking God and pleasing him should be the target of our efforts, Remembering the words of Jesus where he asks in Matthew 16:26 What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?.
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