Even abroad, it takes God 

The mad dash for visas to countries that are welcoming to skilled immigrants is understandable, given how bad economies around the continent have become.

People are selling everything valuable that they own, to process these visas whose cost can go into tens of millions, but lately, not even a visa in one’s passport is guarantee to the good life they dream about. Hearts have been broken at Entebbe airport, and even further in when a traveler has just one more flight to his/ her destination.

Imagine being turned back to Uganda where you have already sold everything!

But hey, it is not the end of the world; the God of the mountain, is still God in the valley. The God in Canada is very much the same God in Uganda. If He chooses to bless you right here in our dusty home, so shall it be.

In fact, you getting on that plane for migration purposes without God’s hand in it, can prove quite frustrating. So, in everything you plan and do, ensure that God is part of those plans.

I heard a heartbreaking testimony in my church on Sunday, from someone who went on a six-month visa to try her luck on the American dream. She only managed to secure a semblance of a job four weeks before she was due back home.

But before she left USA, she reportedly met many Ugandans in Los Angeles, who decades down the road were still chasing a fast-running American Dream.

One of them, a woman in her 70s, reportedly told her she left Uganda as a young woman but has still not secured a green card, and neither is her dream taking any shape.

That she confessed, the only thing stopping her from returning to Uganda is shame; what will she show for the more than three decades she has been away!

This is what I have deduced about these kyeyo things. If it is in your godly cards, it will be the best decision you ever take. If it is not, you stand to lose everything, including your dream that you may abandon in Uganda to chase a non-existent one abroad.

Don’t you know at least one person that left Uganda decades ago but has nothing to show for their hustle? At the same time, there is one who left Uganda shortly before the Covid-19 outbreak, but has already achieved so much both in Uganda and abroad. I know one who owns houses in Uganda and the USA after just six years away!

Involve God. Ask Him for guidance, instead of simply selling everything, then packing up and leaving. Otherwise, those countries would not have impoverished and homeless citizens, if breakthrough there were a guarantee.

malita@observer.ug