LIFE AS IT IS

They say LIFE IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT,in other words you become what you planned and acted to be.In this case we assume that you are the input you applied in the previous you.Some one said,"There is no secret to success,you don't have to be lifted on an elevator,you have to climb the ladder of success." I am also a victim of positive Thinking and I believe that you can be anything you want as long as you are determined to pay the cost,For there is No Gain without Pain.The believers in God's Grace may think otherwise but the Good book is clear on this saying,'The wages of sin is death but the free Gift of God is eternal life through christ Jesus'.You see,God's grace is only accessed by Faith in His Son Jesus who paid the cost for all the sins of human kind.Our salvation was purchased by Jesus at a very high cost of his own painful and shameful death.Anyway that was a by-the-way.In the pursuit of a good life by all people,certain common denominators are not to be missed.All people want Freedom,independence,peace,

happiness,acceptance,Recognition,greatness and the like.
  Once I sat on the roof top and watched people from all walks of Life down the streets,everybody was minding their business,some were footing,others driving,sitting in fancy cafeterias taking their luxurious coffee cups whose cost exceeds a daily wage for people in the other class.You see God created us in the same class but while on earth we have formed ourselves in more diverse classes  even in churches where we go to meant our common creator,for those who have not very soon you will go to this church and they will introduce themselves as An English speaking Church.So what shall we say of this things?,shall we say that the Haves are more hardworking or wiser than Have Nots ? may be yes,but that can not be absolute.For everyone wants to attain something good,it is just that sometimes  what you expect is not what you get.Anybody who ever went to school had that hope of a good fancy career that would bring them to their desired destiny tagged with Happiness,Freedom,independence,Charity and a peaceful noble priced retirement.We have a Radio presenter who calls himself Jimmy Jones75,asked why he calls himself 75 he said he hopes to be happily retired at the age of 75,which is a good thing and I really liked his idea of being reminded by people about his retirement every time they called him by name.
I wish everything  was to be just as we had planned,but you see they say if your dream happens just as you planned,then it is not good enough.In other words ,Life is not a constant but a variable .Thanks to my Math teacher,I remember  her in those days saying ,"You may be given a number,say like X ,find the value of X ".Life is a variable ,we are not sure of it's true value,we just have to solve it out.If you had and still have problems with math,don't worry,unlike back then at school,here in real life you can copy because in some instances you won't have time to do corrections.So copy from other people's successes or failures.
you may have attained a college degree majoring in something just to find yourself competing with elementary and high school dropouts.

But never stress,in Africa we believe that a pen ( Education) is like a hoe,you may have a bad season on your farm but there is always something you can bring home.In life we should always learn to have the faith of a farmer.For they by faith sow even if there is no sign of the Rains with a hope that the rains,even if they may delay a bit,will come and the tiny seeds sown will bring forth fruit.
In this 21st generation we are having a lot of norms and traditions being redefined.say,men wearing Dreadlocks,women wearing tight pants I hear mbu leggings,morning clubbing ,we can as well redefine somethings in our own life,instead of 'Life is what you make it' we can have it as 'Life is what you take it' because sometimes what you want is not what you get irrespective of doing all the common methods to success.Never use someone Else's method of success as your own you could be called to be something else.
 Life is not about what you have done,but what the good Lord who gives us all good things to enjoy has done.In proverbs it is written  'A horse is prepared for the day of trouble but deliverance comes from the Lord'.A self made King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon in his magnificent palace  is brought down but a poor young shepherd David from the bush is anointed king.
The Bible describes worldly achievements as 'uncertain riches of this world'.The rich fool thought he had gathered what is more than enough for him to enjoy and have a peaceful prosperous retirement when certainly his soul was required from him by the Ripper.Everything was well with Job when certainly he received reports of how he had lost his all.And what of our own generation,don't you know that our very own king of kings Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi 

  no more?

For indeed Life is what you take it,there are no self made men,you could be a Have-Not today and tomorrow find yourself in Father Abraham's bosom watching over a man once a Have who always dressed in royal purple garments now being tormented by the Giant thirst

HEROISM PROVED

To win a marathon in Uganda
first you need to know that there is no secret society that will tap you on the shoulder and tell you how you are talented to make a good athlete ,here in Uganda you are supported  after you have become popular.That is when you will hear all the praises and contributions and as it is said in    Proverbs 18:16  of the good book that
"A man's gift makes room for him, and brings him before great men",you will also definitely receive a call from the first house in Entebbe inviting you for a lunch or dinner and the next day go to meet Hon.Kadaga and Hon.Lukyamuzi the man at parliament for stately congratulations,what are you talking about ? they will always treat you like this for as long as you keep being the best.if you all of a sudden grow weak you will be forgotten ,I mean where is Dorcus inzikuru and moses kipsiro Thank God at least I know of John Akii-bua because  there is Akiibua  Road in Nakasero Uphill,but who knows whether some Ninjas some time to come will under estimate that noble achievement and Name the road after someone else say like Gilbert Arinaitwe Bwana,by the way was that guy a civilian or a security officer? You know they say 'Yamba polisi Nayo ekuyambe' meaning help the police as it also helps you,may be he was just helping .Anyway it is good to name infrastructures after important people or events,it helps to remind us of how we have been moving towards our present.At least I can take touble to find out who Dowinton was because of dowinton road at National theater in Kampala.Recently while wondering in illusions about my future,I entertained dreams of owning a commercial building in one of our important towns and name it Y.K.Museveni Complex but I thought it wouldn't be a good idea as long as we still have the 4GC (For God and my country ) activism group formerly A4C (Activism For Change), some people don't take this guys seriously but if they are persistent like this,they might get power come 2070 after afande Sam Omara and Gilbert Arinaitwe Bwana have retired.
On a serious note as a country we should learn to remember and honorably reward our Heroes,there are many personal sacrifices we may never know that  they make just to make us as a country shine proudly.

  Secondly you should mind your last name.It should at least bear a letter 'K' and 'Ki' just makes it better,I mean we can talk of kiprotich,Kipsiro,Kiprop,

Inzikuru etc these  being from uganda .Abel kirui,Wilson Kipsang of kenya.Even in our Kampala MTN marathon take a look at the names which have been at the top since this event began,you will hear of Kimwetich,David Tarus Kiptui,Rusina Kiboino Jepkosgei and please be carefull while reading some names, you might bite your tongue,..... the least is endless.So I fell in love with running not so long ago and Iam looking forward to registering for the MTN Marathon 2013,so when I discovered the luck with letter K,I am contemplating of changing my name to Kiwanja, and when I am surrounded  with the NTV,BukendeTV and BBC and CNN guys later at the olympics asking me how all of a sudden I made it,I will tell them it is all about letter K attached to your name or Ki if you want a gold medal.

 The government has promised to construct a new high altitude stadium and name it after kiprotich
Anyway  Thank you so much Stephen kiprotich for what you have done,indeed we are proud of you,You represent the greater number of common Ugandans who are struggling to fulfill their heart felt desires of being somebody in this mother Land Uganda amidst external pressures and poverty drawing us to some other things that we have never planned to be.We have people whose desire was to be preachers,doctors,bankers,lawyers,artists or even athletes, but because they lacked mentors to believe in them,and support to relieve them of some burdens,they have ended up in fields so different.But your undoubtable championship is a great inspiration to us,The truth is that we may not all be athletes,but life in general is a race we have to win,therefore if we take your example,I believe we can   also improvise and be champions.We can win that political post,we can write that book,we can get that academic certification,we can....if we believe.For God and my Country.

Hi friend

After you have Lost

You have heard that "no state is permanent" that everything changes
and before you know it things are different.Now that statement is very
true and good to hear or believe when things are tight,like they say
"when you are found between a rock and hard place,at a time when your
options are very limited.But how about when everything is going on
just fine? when everything is just as you had planned it or even much
better than you had imagined? wold you wish for things to change? I
bet not.
probably you have heard someone say "Change is a fact of life" you
can't resist it,some people say we should always cause the change we
want,and partly I believe that though I think there is a debate on
that,but you see,even if you don't cause change,change will come by
its self.They say in life there is nothing constant except Change.You
won't be thinking like that forever ,you won't be young forever
,chances are you won't be doing that Job all your life.
In life there are things we always want to see changed,but then
some,we want them to remain forever or at least for some time,it could
be a Job,a friend,a spouse,an academic course et cetera .But certain
things we can't control because they are not into our hands,so many a
times we see people all over the world facing painful changes in their
lives,Time and again we are forced out of school,out of
competitions,out of relationships,out of business ,out of a job at a
time when we least expect it,so almost everybody feels they are out of
something.So the question is not whether you you will ever loose
something ,it is what you do when you have lost something .after a
loss,some people are filled with anger,fear,bitterness,

hopelessness
etc
I read somewhere that a certain old man was asked "In your own
life,what did you do every time you encountered hardships ?"

He said " I always choose to look at what God was doing,other than
what I wanted,on God's purpose other than my desires"

 you see in this life ,sometimes  we don't know exactly what we were
meant to be,so we just guess and try our luck in anything,or we just
copy someone Else's life and paste in our own,because John is
successful  by being a church pastor you also become one and yes you could also
appear to be 'successful' but in a wrong context out of what God
created you for. And so God always uses problems,set backs whatever
name you could name them to guide us back to his purposes,it is
because of this that the ancient Job,when he had lost his all,did not
curse God but instead praised him and said

The Lord gave and he has taken away,blessed be the name of the Lord.job 1:21

Normally,we hurt so much after we have lost something because we have
a deadly sense of individualism,where by we put ourselves at the
center of everything ,my car,my money,my this my that,we put a me tag
on everything .We want to try things on our own to satisfy our ego so
at the end we can say " I did it" .We tend to think that everyone
should be thinking about us,that is why after we have lost we are
afraid that people will laugh at us.If you didn't know,sometimes
people are not thinking about you,they are busy minding their
business,so after a loss or set back,just take that as an opportunity
to begin over afresh after you have learnt your previous mistakes.
Look it is not about you nor about them,it is about God,
Jeremiah 17:7-8

⁷ Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.
⁸ For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

That person who puts God at the center of everything is always in the
right position to handle any unexpected crisis.Such a person should
not use God to solve his problems but should let God use problems in
their life to fulfill his purpose.

The loosing time is not the time to run away from God,it is the best
time to run to God because he is able to handle anything however big
it appears to us.

The psalmist sang and said

Psalm 121:1-2..."I look to the hills from where does my help come from...My help comes from the Lord maker of heaven and earth"

Our God is bigger and greater than anything you will ever think of.His
name is a strong and might tower,the righteous run to it and they are
safe.
Pastor Rick warren in his book says
"A journey is always better when shared"
Will you allow God into your walk to Day?

ADULTIHOOD

When we are young we always yearn to be adults because of the freedom adults enjoy.interestingly after we have grown we fear to accept that we are adults,that is why you will see very many grown ups doing childish things.When I finished primary school I was told to stop playing with toy cars that because I was grown up now,another day I saw a certain new juice brand and wanted to buy but the shop keeper told me it was meant for kids.

A friend of mine received a call from her friend telling her that she was pregnant and immediately she was going to say "Oh my God,what are you gonna do?",but then after a quick thought in a second she said "Wow,congratulations " because she realized that they are not children any more,they had grown up and adults get pregnant and have babies.

A friend of mine came to me and she began telling me real personal stuff about her relationship and she need advice.At first I didn't know what to say but then after some time I realized I was a grown up and needed to say something.
When I left home for college and was left alone,at first I thought of blaming people for not helping me but then afterward I realized I had grown and therefore needed to find work and survive on my own.
To be an adult involves making hard decisions of life.people fear to be called adults because they fear responsibilities.When you don't have a home of your own,no Job security,no.....you pretend you are still young.For ladies if she is not yet married and desperately searching for Mr right,though she is 28 she will pretend to be 20.
We don't choose to be male or female but to be a man or woman it is a personal choice you make and acompany it with actios. (1 corithians:13:11) the apostle paul said "when I was a child ,I spoke as achild;but when I became a man,I put away childish things."
You may be old in years but your actions show you are still a child .Some of us need to be reminded that we have grown up and need to put away childish ways.Adults think about The Future,five,ten,twenty years from now.When live in a world where everything is done for today .fast food restuarants,holiday parties ,sex just for pleasure his unwanted pregnancies,lottery tickets,beting etc.No time for future plans.
Someone once said "if you have a girl friend and she begins to talk about future, just know she becoming spoiled." People of this generation fear marriage because they think it is some kind of prison.
(Heb:11:24-25) when Moses became of age,he decided to leave his guardian's home and join the slaves because he looked at his future and ignored the passing pleasures.
(1 kings:1:2) When king David was leaving this earth,he instructed Solomon his son to 'prove himself a man' .He said be strong therefore and prove yourself a man. In Bugisu region to be a man you have to go through the circumcision process.
They say change is inevitable,whether you pretend to be something you are not,you will change.Those old friends will change,you body will change.The strength you have now may not be felt sometime to come.Only one person can not change.
(Malachi 3:6) the good book says,"For I am the Lord,I do not change,therefore you are not consumed,O sons of Israel".
Him who created us male or female did that with a purpose,and unless we accept who we are and go to him for guidance ,we can not know that purpose,He knows you need a partner,he knows you need a Job.
A time comes when you stop following and you begin to lead so that others can follow you.
When Moses was of age he said to Joshua "Am old and can not come in or go out with you any longer,but be strong and of good courage,for you must go with this people to the land which the lord has sworn to their fathers to give them,and you shall cause them to inherit it.

LONELINESS

Sometimes you never realise you are lonely until you are not busy with some thing,say work, school or friends.There are sometimes when you have some time off from work and you  just have some free time to enjoy yourself,so you try to read,watch a movie,walk around but at the end you find there is something missing.you try to call your friends so you can hang out and as if it is a coincidence ,all of them are busy and so they can't make it.You thought you were okay and relationships suck but then now you feel like may be it is time you rethink about it.I think God was not mistaken to say ,it is not good for a man to be alone.

we can immense ourselves into various activities  to find wholeness,

acomplishment,happiness but just as man can not be fulfilled without  God,so is he without a soulmate,we all need that someone,the one we care about and who cares about us,you can love your
parents,children,siblings,friends but there is that special someone who is meant to make you complete,with whom you will begin to feel you are enough.

For adam on seeing Eve said "truly this is the bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh".The point of having a relatioship is not necessarily to provide you with love but to keep you away from hate.As you grow older,life begins to show its true colors and sometimes those colors look like s*** that is why its important to have someone by your side who always reminds you of beauty no matter how dreary things may get.You start to see your soul wither if you don't have love around you.

In Africa food is meant to be shared it really hurts to the bone to always have your meals alone.

Morning glory or morning Clubing

We all wake up in the morning at different routine times everyday to do something.Mostly here in Africa people wake up just to go to work,either in office,farm etc.For those who don't have work just wake up in a random way to do anything that comes across (not all) for believers I hope you have heard of the 'Morning Glory or Morning Devotion',terms meant for communicating to God before kick-starting your day.Here in Uganda on most radio stations allover the country religious leaders wake up as early as 4:30 am to lead people into praying sessions.Some go to churches,For devotee moslem it is mandatory to wake up everyday to have morning prayers .I once worked near the Indian temple in Nakasero and a great number also go for prayers before work.So whether you pray on your own or in the gathering,whichever way you choose it is a good experience to begin a day in a spiritual mood trusting the super natural for guidance through the unpredictable day.Anybody however great,needs 'something' if I may call it that,which is greater than himself,it is this sense of the unknown power greater than ourselves that motivates us knowing that the new day will be better.

The bible contains several motivational,encouraging,comforting scriptures about this.Forexample (Jeremiah 29:11) God says he has great plans for our future.The unknown can be very scary,not knowing what to expect based on the uncertain present but it feels good to have someone tell you "...there is no need to worry,everything will be fine".(lamentations 3:22-26) after the prophet Jeremiah had shade tears,complained and got weary,he concluded saying "Through the lord's mercies we are not consumed because his compassions fail not,for they are new every morning".everybody needs this.
Though this seems to be a good thing,some people are short of time or have never had a habit of doing this.They wake up and do everything from showering,watching morning news,having breakfast,taking kids to school and later going for work but never praying.
As the world grows older cultures are changing and new ones are being made,they can be resisted at first but with time they always find their ground and following.I grew up Know Morning glory or Morning Devotion as referring to praying But I was challenged to hear Morning glory referring to Morning glory dancing .
In East london people wake up as early as 6am to get into a dance party before they report for work.It is not an after part from a night club.This people are very fresh from bed.they say they can't go to night clubs because they come from their work in the evening when they a very tired and they have to report for work the next day.They say to have a morning glory dancing feels good doing something new.You won't find there alcohol or any kind of liquor,instead you will see people in their office wear,dancing clothes,pajamas and coffee,tea,juice in their hands.Humans are curious and like discovery ,What a generation !.

A new club in London is offering an alternative form of early morning visitors, by giving them the chance to 'rave their way into day' with a new exercise programme of dancing to club music. 
'Morning Glory: Rave Your Way Into The Day' has just opened at the Village Underground in Shoreditch, and gives ravers the chance to 'replace the drugs and booze with smoothies and massages'.
Speaking to BBC News, producers Sam Moyo and Nico Thoemmes say the idea to start the club came after trialling it at festivals.
"It's us turning clubbing on its head," said Sam. It's on from 6.30 until 10.30 in the morning and the idea is that people wake up and instead of people going to the gym or pottering about in their rooms, they come here and drop in any time for a massage, a superfood smoothie, some coffee, lots of hugs and just general love and fun before going to work.
"You don't need all of the drugs and drink, and that was one of the reasons for doing it on a Wednesday morning - to filter out the afterpartiers. Not that we don't love a good party."

Not updating just testing something.something ,one two yes God is good people are crazy.

There is a mentality with humans that there are greener pastures the other side,so just like animals in a zoo,you can give them food,medications,water but they will never stop their struggle to get out.

Uganda

Nice evening it is in the banana republic