However if you have read Steven Covey’s 7
Habits of Highly Effective People, you will know that one of the things that
the writer advocates for is for us to always seek to understand before we seek
to be understood. It’s not that I am
questioning the wisdom of our dear president. Who am I to do that! I am just
saying that we should place this entire hugging thing in its proper context for
it is only then that we can understand why some Ugandans like I are still bent
on hugging our friends even when we know that by doing that we stand a risk of
contracting the deadly virus.
I will speak of those of us in church. How
can we survive without hugging? How? It is not possible. Hugs are central
element of what we do in church. The bible expects there to be fervent love
expressed among-st us. Hugs are just one of the ways through which this love is
channeled. That’s why even some praise songs have components where you have to
hug a sister or a brother for them to make meaning.
Besides some brothers think the only
opportunity they can ever get to hug the sisters they fancy is in these
Christian Fellowship circles because it is only in church where hugs are thrown
around so freely and with no strings attached. So, with all the benefits that
accrue to the practice, do you think people are simply going to wake up one
Sunday and stop hugging just because the President has scared them with this
Marburg thing? Even it were Ebola, I
don’t think such a threat would work.
And then speaking of some someone like I
who does Pastoral work, if I stop hugging, people will be like Musumba Zak you
have started being proud and they will think I am fallen.
Yet the bible says in Zion none shall be
sick. And we are the kind who have come before Mount Zion in the city where the
living God resides, the invisible Jerusalem, populated with festive angels and
Christian citizens. So Marburg is not our portion. Hallelujah!
That is why every time I am about to
receive a hug from a sister and think of Museveni’s words, in my heart I am
like I cancel Marburg in the name of Jeeeesus. I then cover my chest with the
blood of our lord Jesus Christ and receive the hug without any fear. It is the
only way I can get around this Marburg thing you know.
Remember faith without action is dead or so
the bible says. Therefore, if I believe that God has the ability to protect me
from any sickness, then why should I stop hugging because of Marburg? I can’t.
It is my faith.
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