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  When one's mind is made up, fear diminishes. She was never prepared for a quarter of what she went through, but she got thorough it. After losing her husband, she wondered how she could survive with her pregnancy and cater for all their nine other children. After giving birth, her prayer was "God , since my husband is dead , I know this beautiful son of mine can't grow. Just kindly help me and he makes at least one year. Please don't take him now , I beg you. Save me and take him after one year at least, I pray." This lady is my mother. All that, she was praying for our last born. Today ,the person she begged God to take at least when he was a year old, is 19years old studying PEM/ICT in senior six.  Its hard to learn from others, but it's harder to be the example. In this world, we can get whatever we need if we struggle for them, but to get those which will give us happiness, we must put our lives in God's hands. Having a spiritual relationship with Go...

 What to do or not to do in life is not a question of morality or ethics, it is a question of consequences. We are human beings and this means we can never be perfect. We hurt and wrong each other no matter how hard we try not to. Sometimes one wrongs and hurts you deeply in a way that no matter how hard you try to forgive them, you find a missing part. Some one said "when trust is broken, sorry means nothing" ,its hard to forgive sometimes, but the more you keep grudge on a person no matter how guilt he is, the more you keep the pain. Forgive people, not because they deserve forgiveness but because you deserve inner peace. Oprah Winfrey says " Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been different. Stress comes from thinking that things should have been different. But they have worked out this way for a reason. All you can do is keep moving forward." The reason why it hurts us to forgive people, is because we concentrate our mind on the problem: ...

 For so many times I have tried, but failed to have the courage to put this directly. I called this " poor and broken" in one of the inspirational posts, but that was cake coating a very  sour drug! I admit that our lives are different and tougher. One of my friends lost all his clan mates in one of the wars that happened in Rwanda. His parents and siblings managed to escape the war and migrated to Uganda. After a couple of years , this friend of mine was about 8 years old when his father died. After one year , even the mother died. The next life was worse than what you can imagine. I am not going to describe it , but let's go to the point of focus. According to WHO , about 450 million people struggle with mental illness or psychological disorders. 1 million of these commit suicide every year. What do you do when you feel stressed but have no idea where the stress comes from? What do you do when your own body fails you? From no where you feel you can't breath or stand...