Of eternity

 Friends

Death is around us. None of us knows how much time we have here

 *Question:* Since we are spirits that live in bodies, how are you preparing for eternity? When we leave these earthly bodies, that is not the end. *So, how are you preparing your spirit for eternity?*

_Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, 28 so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him._ *Hebrews 9:27-28 NIV*

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Shiela Karungi Mugyenzi

 To Keith, Matthew and Arthur

On behalf of the Monks

The young men who frequented your home in Buganda Road

Ate all your food and drank all your juice

On behalf of those adoloscent filled boys 

That took over your sitting room and made it their own

Slept in your beds and enjoyed your company

Those who joked on the phones and made prank calls to Mom at work

We cried and laughed in that house

When love relationships failed

We converged and strengthened each other

When jobs went right we celebrated at the kitchen table

At cleaned out the fridge

On behalf of those young men

Who looked up to Shiela 

Sometimes as sunday school teacher 

and then as tough big sister

But also as the one with rare jokes

And a beautiful smile 

We mourn deeply with you

Keith, Matthew and Arthur

Our sister Sheila was amazing and loving

We are all speechless and our Whatsapp Group is now silent 

We loved you Shiela

We respected you

We honoured you and enjoyed being with you

Yours was a melting pot

Where our Ganda, Alur, Toro, Nyoro, Kiga and Nyankole roots merged

We know that Shiela is in glory 

We know she will tell Mom 

About how far we have come

We still love the Lord 

We have grown to live our lives 

We honour our wives

We love justice, we are present fathers

We work hard and do mercy

and we bless the Lord for having known Sheila, her brothers Keith and Matthew

Their dear wives, children and extended family

Rest in glory Sheila

We are the Monks

Very grateful for the impact on our lives

Amen

WITH THEM

 WITH THEM

A fellow father lost a daughter

A dear first born

I mourn with him 

A fellow child lost her mother

A precious parent 

I cry with her

A fellow human being

Wakes up in pain each day

With plates of iron in his shoulder

I stand with him

A less known soldier

Lies in his tomb

Shattered by lead

Fired in rapid motion

I weep for him

Fellow human beings 

And more yet unknown 

Suffer in pain

Isolation and bitterness

I suffer with them

For they are me

And i am them

UBUNTU

I am human like them

I am

Because they are

08.06.21

JAILOR

 Jailor

You lock up my bones

And tie my hands behind my back

Your boots on my head

As you look down into my eyes

I am defiant still

I am free

For my spirit you will not chain up

My thoughts and voice

My song my speech

My resolve

You will not jail

You are imprisoned to your vanity

You are slave to your pride

To your greed and hunger

For power and the shine of silver

You are slave

Drunk and staggering

Intoxicated by the venomous smoke of primitive accumulation of wealth 

You poke my ribs with bayonets

And you grin as your gun butts into my sides

You taste the salty sweat of your brow

And think you have achieved

Yet the spirits of the souls you send to eternity

Hover around you

Keep you awake

Parentless babies

Cause your insomnia

Widowed mothers

Wail in your ears

Sonless fathers cry in the dust

For the men and women

You have jailed and emasculated

Jailor

My mind's thoughts soar high as the eagle

My freedom, you cannot touch

Whether you free me or not

Whether your metallic jails open free for me now or later

Am free

Yes

I am free

My resolve is free

My ideas are free

Am Mandela

You are apartheid

I am Luther

You are racism

I am peace

You are war

I am freedom

And fly i will

10.06.2021

Good Friday Message

*Good Friday* is the day when we Christians commemorate the death of Jesus Christ on the Cross at the place called the skull (Golgotha)

We  know that His death was the ultimate sacrifice for our sins. We nolonger have to shed blood of animals or birds to cleanse us. That singular act and gruesome death was enough to bridge us to God the Father forever 

His death meant that we could now be co-heirs with Christ in the Kingdom of God. All we need to do is accept Jesus as our personal Lord and saviour 

May we, this day, invest in eternity by confessing with our mouths that Jesus is Lord. For all will fade away save for our relationship with Him in eternity 

Will you accept him today?

God bless you all

Amen

Heroes Day

 Happy Heroes and Heroines Day to you

In all that you do, there is a life that has been changed and a situation made better. Thank you

Keep serving

Keep loving

Keep sharing

Wishing you God's blessings

 _For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure._

( *Philippians 2:13 ESV*)

June 9, 2021

January 2021 UCLF PRAYER WALK

 Dear Child of God

I would like to invite you to join  a  UCLF Prayer Walk for the Nation this Sunday 10/01/2020 in the Morning at *6am or earlier* in the following format 

1. Some can start from Kitgum House traffic lights towards the City/Constitutional Square via the Parliament Avenue

2. Others can start from Wandegeya towards the Constitutional Square  

3. Walk at least with one friend or more but do not crowd and remember to wear masks and observe Standard Operating Procedures (SoPs)

4. Do not shout or cause attraction but just seek the peace of the Lord over the land. Ask God for well organised and a peaceful process of the elections and declare that there will be no deaths or mayhem

5. We shall not be congregating at the City Square. Those who wish to continue to Kitgum Traffic Lights or Wandegeya might do so but that is ideally where your walk ends and you can go back home after that or meet up with friends for a cup of tea

6. Please be intentional about praying and not merely chatting about the latest trending news

7. It is not an exercise of walking although it is good for the body

8. Those who are unable to join in, can pray from wherever they are in the various towns. e.g there will be a prayer walk in Mbarara _From Mahembe Gente to Booma grounds and from Booma grounds to Mahembe Gente_ 

....if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. (2 Chronicles 7:14)

God bless you all

The Challenge

 Morning🙋🏽‍♂️

I got a challenging word this morning

Imagine this was our last day on earth amd we were going to meet our Lord and King Jesus at the end of the  day

How would we prepare? What urgent matter would you seek to clear? 

What would you tell your friends or acquaintances about where you are going? Wouldn't you want to tell them to give their lives to Christ?  Wouldn't you push hard _*anagkazo!*_ to bring in the harvest before you meet the King? 

_*Would you remain shy? Or too concerned about your reputation?*_

Imagine you are driving on a high way and you know that the road has collapsed. 

Wouldn't you stop any passing truck to tell them to stop lest they fall through to damnation?

Let us similarly *today* not waste a single minute to desperately tell our workmates, housemates, clan mate or even thar stranger on the street that the Lord loves them. Tell that nurse, that auber driver, rhe court clerk, the chapati seller, the street sweeper of the treasure in you

Preach friends. *PREACH!!!!!*

Tell them about the Lord

You have the words that heal!

You have the solution to the heart!

DO NOT KEEP THEM TO YOURSELF

Tell them about our Lord and King

Ignore the excuses. Ignore the reasons telling you not do it. Obey the call the make a Disciple today. Reach out and pray for that sick person. Offer the eternal water to that thirsty one. Let the Lord do the rest but do your part. 🙏🏽

God bless you 🙋🏽‍♂️

I await the testimonies today today today

AMEN