Aguma's Story-- Part 3

On Monday, the day for the interviews, it was 7:30 am when I arrived. Before reaching on the other side of the school campus, I thought that I was the first person to arrive at school. On reaching the veranda of the school, I did not believe what my eyes were seeing-- "Is it a market, here?" I asked myself. Do you think that I still had hope? No, it all went away from me. You would see others looking up with their lips moving up and down as if they were possessed by evil spirits trying to remember what they had read last night. I thought of going back and eating my one thousand shillings than wasting it in these interviews. On this day, we were told to come on Wednesday and check our results at the gate.

On Wednesday, I went to check. Do you know what? My name was the first on the list of those who were to be sponsored! How happy I was that I even failed to speak. My mother was happy too. She was too thrilled with words and it was as if the government had come to visit us.

At Christ School, I found fellowship. A teacher encouraged me as a young Christian. He became a good friend of mine and indeed helped me to grow. At first I was easily angered, for a slight thing I would fight. Girls were my enemies. I never wanted them to talk or touch my things. Then I went deep in the love that God had for us and how Jesus was humble until the time of his death for an individual like me. I left all these wrong behaviours. Later on I was elected as the fellowship leader in the school. Through the saving powers and the love of God, I gradually changed. Though I still live in a world of suffering, I know that I am the richest person because my father in heaven is the richest God in the whole globe. To him who is able to keep you from falling, and to bring you faultless and joyful before his glorious presence-- to the only God our saviour, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, might and authority, from all ages past and now, and for ever and ever. Amen.

By Aguma Nicholas, an excerpt from a work entitled "God Sees." Posted with permission.