editorial
It is New Year. Now that the feasting is done, it is time to draw up new resolutions. Again!
But unfortunately for me, I have forgotten the ones I made last year! There was really nothing to evaluate at the close of last year. I have realised a year is so big for me to meet, let alone remember my resolutions.
So, this New Year, I am simply not making any! I am setting a minimum of a week and evaluations will be at the end of each week where I will look back and marvel - the way God did in Genesis - at my work. It will be good, I know.
Otherwise, congratulations to those who met their resolutions last year. No rain or sunshine or people's negative energy could stop you. You have beaten the odds and you deserved the banquet of the previous festive season. But seriously, other than drawing up targets, we will quickly forget mid-way the year. Why don't we invest in things that bring genuine happiness instead?
Haven't you heard the adage, 'beautiful things can neither be seen nor touched, but can only be felt with the heart'? Let us give more love; invest in our relationships (work, social or spiritual), choosing none over the other. Let us nurture each of them to the extent that no algae or weeds creep up.
True, though we are defective beings, with many faults and few redeeming points, we should not tire doing good and improving ourselves so that we create a good interactive atmosphere. You and I are great people. Great people are merciful to the people who annoy them. They neither fight them nor murder them. Great people understand that provocative people are beneath them, and so walk away from trouble before it erupts.
We keep our consciences intact from pornography, taking sex videos in the name of being drunk in love, and the like. If any part of you becomes a menace, you will surely be stooping to standards of a lesser person.
We want to celebrate the next festive season as greater people. Greater! Instead of being behind bars, we should be giving ourselves big thumps on the back for being good friends, parents, spouses, spiritual leaders, and above all, good examples to the generation below us.
How shall we achieve this? Making amends in our relationships will require some conscious efforts, such as taking time to appreciate, give and receive with grace. Appreciation involves calling them so often to find out how they are and acknowledging their efforts; giving involves, not only providing the basics, but making conscious efforts to remember birthdays, skipping bar time or any such hobby to give your family/ friends time to bond with you. And receiving involves accepting gratitude with humility. So, plan around them this year without expecting any returns.
All I am saying is unrelenting love to others will be the best satisfaction you will give to yourself this year. And that conscious effort will surely reignite the flames of love back into your relationships.
You who have been job hunting and searching, it is time to look for that vacuum for you to fill. Where can you be helpful in Uganda? This year should not end just like that without you having no employment and money of your own. You who cut congregating, always saying that you pray in your heart, stop! Think about the waters in their vastness and every beautiful thing not man-made.
Marvel. If that does not give you enough reason to gather and pray, then you are a gone case! Praying first thing each morning or praying together every night as a family will be the fuel to success this year you need. You will not believe the results from these obvious but usually overlooked tasks at the end of year.
Great people, cheers to the New Year!