JANUARY 1, 2022 | THE OLD HAS GONE; THE NEW HAS COME
2022 is here! Welcome, Friends and
Family! I love you so much.
My name is Robert Mugisa Abwooli. I
am so grateful to God for the gift of life and the New Year 2022. Wow! What a
privilege to be here, sharing a life with you. My Mother regularly tells me for
a fact that “obulamu kyekikulu”
literally interpreted as “life is the
most important thing.” I believe the phrase because as long as we live, we
can face anything and everything as it unfolds.
Twelve months or three hundred
sixty-five days is not a simple journey to walk. It reminds me of the song, one day at a time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBnZ8bmEOTM.
I think that’s why many of us wait for the midnight hour on December 31 of
each year as it is a time to cross over to another season or cycle; to start
again. We may never have found a perfect theme for than “the old is gone and the new has
come” that fits squarely into this message as we begin our walk into
2022.
2021 had its good, moderate and bad
sides. A number of people say that the year passed, just like that and that the
biggest challenge was the prevalence of COVID-19 pandemic and its attendant
effects. I agree. Of course, different people faced other challenges but we
also need to recount the blessings, opportunities and achievements that came
through in the year that has just passed. This will help us to plan and focus well
on what is ahead of us. There are people who married or got married; had
blessings of children; completed and moved into their houses; bought new cars;
completed their studies and; those who got promoted or moved on to new job
placements or better still, started their own businesses which have greatly
picked up. We thank God. Giving thanks to God is a virtue that opens doors for
more blessings and brings total healing and deliverance. Please read Luke 17:11-19.
"Now on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border
between Samaria and Galilee. As
he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy[b] met him. They stood at a distance and
called out in a loud voice, “Jesus, Master, have pity on us!”
When he saw them, he said, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And
as they went, they were cleansed. One
of them, when he saw he was healed, came back, praising God in a loud
voice. He threw himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked
him - and he was a Samaritan. Jesus
asked, “Were not all ten cleansed? Where are the
other nine? Has no one returned to give praise to God
except this foreigner?” Then he said
to him, “Rise and go; your faith has made you well.”
The message is simple. Let’s always appreciate
God for the past that and pray for a new start. It is good to remember where we
have come from and what we went through but we shouldn’t over dwell on it as it
may blur the image in the mirror and prevent us from seeing the clear picture.
If there are issues that affected us so bad, let’s take our minds away from
them and if there were good things along the way, let’s focus on how best to
improve them for better. Let’s accept the losses that befell us and work towards
restoration of all that the thief or locust took away.
Joel 2:25:
“I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten, the great locust and the young locust, the other locusts and the locust swarm - my great
army that I sent among you."
Remember, life is the most important
thing.
As a passionate human rights
defender and advocate, allow me conclude by calling upon each of us to join the
campaign of human rights promotion, protection and realization with knowledge
that human rights are natural entitlements that accrue or belong to all of us
by reason of being human. Let’s work towards true love for one another and
collaborate with key actors to see that we create a favorable environment for
all to live in harmony. Nothing beats peaceful co-existence. Let’s work towards
doing unto others what we wish them to do unto us.
Three things remain as faith, hope
and love but the greatest of them all is love.
Wishing you and loved ones a
peaceful and prosperous 2022.
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