The image of that young mother from Ggaba Community Church daycare centre that was attacked last week, killing four toddlers, will take God to erase it from my mind!
The young mother, possibly upon hearing news of the attack, strapped her other baby to her back and dashed to the school. Getting there, she identified her toddler – at least that is how I interpreted the photo – and carried the lifeless, blood-soaked little body over her shoulder, hanging mere inches away from the bouncy baby on her back.
What a sickening contrast and irony. An evil man had on Thursday gone on rampage in the nursery with a machete, killing defenceless toddlers – the oldest was three years – and unleashing a torrent of pain on the nation.
About four days before the attack, Apostle James Kawalya had put out a prayer call, after he said he had foreseen in the spirit, violent attacks on big churches, schools and gatherings, in the run-up to Easter.
I only saw his TikTok video after the attack, but these are scary times. We need to pray for our country. We need to pray for the parents for those four children whose lives were cut short – literally – before they could even begin!
The image of that inconsolable father who seemed to be on the verge of death from grief himself, is something I do not wish on anyone. I also feel Rev Peter Kasirivu’s pain and possible confusion.
The lead pastor at Ggaba Community Church…how does a community, church leadership and congregation recover from this, save by God’s grace?
We have seen this country gradually regress to bloodshed and pain only comparable to the 1970s and 1980s, with torture, abductions, senseless bloodshed glorified right from high civil service ranks, down to the paver-wielding thugs on the streets, who probably never tasted how bad things can get, or how quick the downward spiral can be.
Most importantly, in the spirit world, blood is not a joke when it comes to covenants, and we should not spill it lightly.
Those mature enough spiritually will tell you the prayers and repentance it took to cleanse this nation from the years of bloodshed and turn a new leaf, only for us now to seem to be proudly marching back to the dark roots. God forbid. Let us take Apostle Kawalya’s call seriously and pray for Uganda.
