CAESAR’S SUNDAY THOUGHT
Deacon Julius Caesar Kamukama, a professional pharmacist is a clergy of the Archdiocese of Mbarara.
The process of building any structure requires more resources (time, money, creativity, effort, personal engagement, etc) than destroying it or pulling it down. Consciously helping another person to grow is likewise harder than destroying them out tearing them down. Most people would rather engage in the condemnation and destruction (in so many ways) of the “bad” person!
If we judge someone to be “bad” because they don’t conform to certain standards (objective or not), shouldn’t we, who claim to be better, try to help them (that includes preventing them from ruining the common good)? Shouldn’t we expend our energies in prayer, counselling, loving and rehabilitation of such a person? Isn’t this what parents, religious leaders, teachers, neighbours, believers, etc are meant to do?
May Jesus grant us the grace to see and accept human beings from the viewpoint of love. May we become builders rather than dismantlers. May we accept the unconditional love of God.
And may Almighty God bless you, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.