Author Archives: Charlotte

I copy paste this from am email from Our Daily Bread, a story by Monica La Rose “As I shared with my counselor my roller-coaster of emotions after a stress-filled week, she listened thoughtfully. Then she invited me to look out the window at the trees, lush with autumnal oranges and golds, the branches swayingContinue reading “Standing firm in the wind”

Mothers’ day brings joy to the hearts of many. We all craft the best speeches and messages to our most beloved. But we know, no words are good enough for our mothers. Actually, I think no words crafted in human written and spoken language can accurately relate to a mother’s love. To all mothers aContinue reading “365 days and Only one is special”

I am perplexed as to why people choose to or act involuntarily violent. I have thought over and over about why I would beat someone. I think that the failure to do as I might have instructed or as they ought to have, in abilities and reasoning that is same as mine or that thatContinue reading “Violence is not the way! We can do better as Human Beings”

Last week, after reading my daily devotion I had great hope and energy that coronavirus I will beat. Of course, I still have energy, but the weight of how others suffer completely weighs me down. I called, to hear from one of my cheerful hosts in my relational work. She is a mother of 6,Continue reading “….I want to Hope Again”

A few months ago, my little sisters brought a strawberry seedling from school and planted it in a compound. We don’t grow much strawberry in Uganda let alone the country side. No one gave it much attention until… Boom one day, this little pink bud showed up and guess what, I am now thinking ofContinue reading “I am grabbing on what I want, letting go of what might be.”

Making Peace with bad things that have happened in our lives is not always possible for most of us. But living with it causes us more pain than we can ever recount and among which the lost and unknown opportunities. In this time of COVID-19, many are looking back on the past pandemics such asContinue reading “Making Peace with Corona”

Life has been so generous to all of us. In Uganda, we have lots of sunshine and rain, food and security and all these were our entitlement. It never occured to anyone that we might experience a global shut down that will put most of our dreams on a stand still and set us ablazeContinue reading “We must Pause and Rethink”

In my work as a social officer working with women in disadvantaged communities in Kampala I am so sudden by the unfolding eventualities on COVID 19. Our saving  groups are on a stand still, Our businesses frozen And mostly losing out on trainings and learning. Through mobile communications I have shared information on guidelines andContinue reading “… Leaving No one Behind”

Thanks for joining me! Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton