FLOWING WORDS SWIMMING WISDOM: Feb 4, 2011

I have come to realize that it doesn't matter where u were born, where u grew up from, what matters is where ur love and heart is. Of recent, my heart and my love has extended to America, in homes I have never been, with people I have never physically met. I have come to realize we are not much different, we are all humans separated by distance, culture and what we have been made to believe. Our differences in culture and way of life are just a reflection of nature's beauty, as there are variety of fish in the lake, birds in the air, and flowers in the wilderness, all different but their difference does not take away the fact that they are fish, birds or flowers, but it just reflects the beauty of the almighty God. Sometimes I feel like I'm living in Uganda but, truly living in America with those I love dearly or living in different places from where I am.

I have realized that when we get together in love in the kingdom of God, we lose our identities we where born with, of being an American, Ugandan, Korean, so on, and become people with one identity found in God based on love. We start to feel that our loyalty is more towards our brothers and sisters in the kingdom of God than to the countries, cultures and people we are born. Our old self ceases to exist and the new self finds it's existence in Christ.

When I was praying in the morning, I realized that nothing is really very important if it finds no importance in the presence of my God. I realized that true importance and worth of existence is found in being at peace with God. When our vertical relationship is proper, all our horizontal relationships will find meaning and all we do will find worth. Have u ever felt so empty? down cast? and wondered why u are living? Sometimes life can make no sense, or make a lot of it that drives one crazy. Scientists, geologist, theologists among others have tired to make a lot of sense out of life from the human point of view and they have confused themselves.

We are born to live on earth to enjoy the fruits of God's love, peace, joy and happiness. All these will come as a result of how we relate with those around us in the name of the Lord. All that we do in His name will bring a sense of satisfaction and worth. Money, education, property cannot and will never get us what our souls truly need. What will really make life worthy living are the relationships we have or God has made us have and the way we handle them. When u love a young man in Africa, those teens in US, and some other person in some other place, and u do it in the name of the Lord, there is worth and peace in that, there is togetherness, there is importance. And u will feel at home when u think of what is even far from home. The kingdom of God has no boundaries. we the citizens live in no boundaries. We love and live everywhere, just in fellow citizens' hearts and souls.

A person's life is just as that of the caterpillar. It is born ugly, crawls in the dust, it's harmful to the people and everyone hates it. The hair of the caterpillar causes skin to itch. Sometimes the caterpillar doesn't intend to cause the skin to itch, but it has no choice, that's the way it was born. Or sometimes this happens in self defense. The caterpillar can easily be crashed on the ground coz it cannot run fast enough or it has no value. So, when we are born, we are just life the caterpillar, very dangerous, yet sometimes we don't intend to be. But what makes a difference in the caterpillar's life is when it decides to go into transformation. It becomes a pupa, it hangs unto a wall and seems to die off. To me the caterpillar seems to get weary of it's nasty life, and decides to wait upon God for a transformation. It will not move or do anything. But it just waits upon God, and surely God shows up and a transformation begins. The once a caterpillar becomes the beautiful butterfly. It never again walks on the ground but flies, it never again itches peoples skins, it becomes an object of beauty. It becomes changed and it feels the worth of living.

In all our lives, we need to reach a point and get tired of our dangerous lives. Lives both dangerous to us and to those around us. And then we have to go to the place of waiting upon the Lord intently for a transformation that will make our lives worthy living, that will bring us to the family of God and we start to become the object of his beauty. We have to choose.

We already made a choice, to belong to the family of God. we have had the chance to know God and be his children. We may not be able to love all the children of the Kingdom, but at least we can love those we have known. This will make life worthy living and everything we do will have importance. Put love in everything u do. Do whatever u do for love's sake. For we are past the early stages of the caterpillar, we might be at the stages of transformation and soon we shall become butterflies and fly away.

U want to feel worth and importance in ur years and all u do, do all things because u love. Look up to God for worth. Find ur peace in God's word. Sometimes we read the bible just to get instructions. we treat God as an authoritarian, but we should read the word for purposes of hearing and knowing what our good Lord has to say, hear his voice, and feel his love in his word. We may not have all we need in this world, but we have God, we have each other, we have loved ones around us. loved ones besides those we share a DNA, and that makes life worthy living.

For I feel worth and importance when I love, when I write to u and tell u I love u, when I feel like I want to hug u and tell u Christ our father loves u and me. I feel worth when I sit down on the table and eat with brothers and sisters in Christ, both spiritual and physical food. I feel worth when I do the work of God not as a task, but as a blessing that will bring joy to my soul. That worth is then reflected and follows me in other earthly duties and responsibilities I have to take on. Loving people, loving u, makes me feel worthy. That's y when I don't love as I should, I get miserable in everything I do. I thing that's y many people live miserable lives. Love is one big thing, that will make our hearts forever big.

I pray that Christ teaches us how to love as he loves, coz we need to learn from the master, as a Luganda saying goes that the older bird teaches the young ones how to fly.

I love u Sister/brother
Frank Love Kagulire 2011

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