I got married to my wife Tina in 2003 with so much excitement, expectations and hope. While on honey moon, I pulled a sheet of paper and we started planning ho we can have a colourful family and home. The list started with having three children, a four bedroom bungalow, two cars, have saving for d kids, develop our careers, etc. We were all engulfed in smiles and wishful hopes. Then the shocker came; we lost our first three kids at birth and all boys. We were alone in the house and my wife always crying and asking God so many questions. So many advice and stories stemmed d air. Some Pastors said it should be an ancestral curse. Some said spiritual attacks, some said may b we lived an immoral life before marriage, some an enemy at work, etc. Some proffered solutions; see baba, go to ......, endless list. The more the advice were heaped on us, the more the hurt and confusion on our faces, especially my wife who was taking d heat. Then came our beautiful daughter Ritjimwa who brought so much joy to us. But it was followed by another sorrow again. We lost another boy again at birth. Many stories again, advice, directions and we told u which was followed with tears, sorrows and moments of hurt again. I told myself I wish God never brought these babies our way. My late Dad, Rev Toma Yilwatda who was alive then visited us and shared Jeremiah 29:11 with us. For I know the plans I have for you says the Lord. They are plans for good and not for evil, just to give u a future and a hope. This verse melted our hurt and planted hope in our hearts. Again shortly before he died in July 2009, he called me two days before he died and reassured us of Gods promise and carelessly said Next year you will have a baby boy. He died July 2009 but exactly one year later, God blessed us with a baby boy and we named him Beji. It may not be our calendar planned kids but we are excited at how hope in God never fails. We are thrilled by how God used the delays to teach us lessons we wouldnt have learnt in life. We have known how it feels to be hurt, be in sorrow, wrongly accuse for sins never committed, etc. It may tarry but keep the hope alive. His word says Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. Great comforts awaits those with burden in their hearts as they read this and are prepared to cast them at the feet of our Lord and saviour Jesus.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 23:21:46 +0000
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