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HAPPINESS: Clear The Clutter In Your Life (Reblogged)


What did your Pastor preach about last Sunday? This is a question many Christians might by now have forgotten.

Either they didn’t pay attention or the message failed to find itself in their long-term memory. I was touched by my Priest’s sermon. He made an analogy of the feast of ascension and boarding your international flight.

He referred to Jesus seated at the right hand of the father. The priest asserted that even when Jesus had a short ministry, he fulfilled his mission.

Whatever he could not do, he left behind his disciples to complete the task of building his father’s kingdom.

He concluded by calling on Christians to live up to this expectation that Jesus sacrificed his life for our sake.

In comparison, he referred to checking your luggage for an international flight. He said, for successful flight passengers are regulated on the weight and number of carryon bags they can carry along.

If you are not obedient to this regulation, you are denied your flight or else you are forced to damp your belongings until the required weight.

However, if you insist then you are over charged for the extra weight. This implies you have to identify what you want most and leave behind what you can do without.

If you are not to be denied your flight, you then need to be disciplined and follow the instruction to all passengers.

Having said this, just like Jesus’ death and ascension; as Christians, we need to clear the clutter in our lives to appear safe for judgment before the Lord when the time comes.

This means we must have priorities and drop the habits that deny us the happiness of going to heaven.

Every Christian wants to go to heaven but not all want to work hard to go to heaven just like we all want to be happy but not all want to be disciplined to work hard to find happiness in what we do.

Normally heaven and the skies where planes fly reflect happiness. We are either happy to fly in a plane or to believe we will go to heaven. But what we forget is that there is an opportunity cost to achieving this happy reality. CONTINUE

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Mukono Campus Girl Heartbreak: How to Deal with Rejection


By Aliker David Martin

“Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime. It’s what unites us. The trick is not to let it destroy your trust in others when that happens. Don’t let them take that from you,” said Sherrilyn Kenyon, Invincible

The feast of Palm Sunday reminds us of the betrayal of Jesus and his journey to crucifixion. This year it also coincided with the betrayal and death of Liz Namboozo, a second year student of Social Works and Social Administration at Uganda Christian University, Mukono.

Liz reportedly found her boy friend cheating on her and could not contain the ugly scene. She locked herself in her room and set herself ablaze.

Unlike Liz, most of the people who have overcome heartbreaks realized they could not change the situation but could change their responses to the situation.

This is what author Jack Canfield in his book, The Success Principles formulated to mean:

E+R=O (Events+ Response =Outcome). Continue


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