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Gloria April 2005.

Hi everyone!!! Thanks for checking with me again and again. It is great to know that you are thinking of me. Some people try to get in touch with me by leaving messages in the guest book! Thank you so very much for that. However, since it does not provide your email address, would you kindly click here to email me? That would be helpful.

Background music is courtesy of Paulo Mugarura. It is a wonderful song and has blessed me immensely. Thank you Paul!

Some of my friends have not been able to see what my apartment looks like. Check this out! What is there right now are pictures of things I am doing with silk flowers. Enjoy!

This year a bundle of joy was introduced in the lives of the Mugaruras. Jotham now has a little brother, Jeffrey who has a sweet sweet soul. I love my nephews and I am glad that they are in my life!

I used to have a new friend who has now become an old friend this weekend. Rachel Washington and I met a year ago Labor day weekend and her friendship has proved to be a great one. I am thankful that God placed her in my life and I make this public promise to her. You can count on me! God bless you dear Heart!

There is also a secret person who visits this site and I wasn't supposed to know that you do but the secret slipped out. I am glad you think enough of me to want to know what I say. You are a beautiful soul and other different circumstances I think we could have been the best of friends. Check here often M!!! (Huge grin on my face)

Guess who I found on the web recently!!! Limit X! Now anyone who knows me knows that I am KrayZ about Limit X. Visit them at their home on the web by clicking here and let them know you support them! They are actually good at getting back to you if you sign their guestbook, so visit them!!!

Visitors! You are also welcome and I hope that sharing this information with you will not offend you in anyway, but I do hope to keep in touch with lots of people (my friends mainly) this way. You are welcome to talk to us and find out information from us. We have a discussion board with different discussions that I hope would pique your interest. I have also included a new link to askmen.com and this one has been specially included for the ladies so we can take a peek into and try to understand the workings of men. It is a great site. Take a look!Please sign the guestbook!

A friend of mine (Jennifer Kizito) performed a search on Google.com and came up with my name! Think of that!!! She wrote and we have been in touch since then. I love the internet!

Thank you so much for keeping in touch and letting me know that you have seen the messages intended for you. Some of us were not able to view anything because we used Netscape Communicator. Unfortunately, I did not have that browser available and since I am a Microsoft Junkie, I didn't really mind. Try it our in MS Internet Explorer. There is the coolest version out. Will make your eyes roll! Gloria.

The most recent things happening in my life are in the Extra-Extra section which I hope you will find highly entertaining! Also please take some time to fill out the form to let me know what you think about this page and it's contents. I am open to suggestions and greatly value your thoughts!Talk back to people using the guestbook! This site is for your pleasure!

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Lately I have had the opportunity to be introspective… allowed myself to look inside to try to understand the way that I am created. The reasons for my passions, my fears, my needs and what I have discovered is in the process of changing my life.

This world is incredibly demanding, constantly requiring you to give of yourself to surrender a part of you so that something can be accomplished. Unfortunately, many times we are unable to prioritize and end up surrendering pieces of ourselves that are vital to our survival. You may think you don’t ever surrender, but never be deceived because you will ALWAYS have demands placed on you that are inconveniencing.

Friendship is not to be taken lightly, it is a responsibility that one claims for one’s self in order to give, to share, to reduce the loneliness that plagues the human soul. When two hearts acquire that special feeling of kinship, then the mind must be engaged to establish the boundaries of the budding relationship. At that time the minds involved claim the responsibility of friendship which includes surrendering a piece of yourself whenever the situation demands it.

My struggle hasn’t been with surrendering pieces of myself, and those who know me well will testify to the fact that I will surrender every last resource I have available to me to aid my friends. It is a responsibility I will not take lightly because a soul has now been connected to my own. Whenever that friendship fades/goes away/is torn from me by whatever circumstance I lose a little piece of me… that connection that was made.

I talked to God today about it for I am told that my very identity seems to be defined by the relationships in my life, which insulted me at first because it insinuated that I am void of character and substance without relationships. So I was forced to look inside and take stock of my current relationships, but not on my own because we all know where the mind can go if it is not directed by God. He and I talked about friends, loves, crushes, family, extended family, church family and a host of other relationships in my life. I was affirmed and what had been stolen from me by another’s opinion of me was returned.

I am Gloria Bwandungi, the second daughter of Ben and Joyie Mugarura Mutana.
I am Jackie’s younger sister and Rachel, Paul and Peter’s older sister.
I am one of the maternal Aunts of Jotham and Jeffery Mwesige Ruhanga
I am Lydia’s best friend
I am a friend and confidante to Lisa, Rachel, Anne, Julie, Sally, Aja, Mwenki, Grace, Anita, Saison, Message, Christine and a host of other people I cannot name in this little space
Most of all I am God’s precious child, whom He loves and whom He would have gone to the cross for even if I was the only creature on this Earth

I AM defined by my relationships, otherwise I am just a floating soul wafting in the wind, here today and gone tomorrow. We will all die and no one will remember the things we did, or the feats we accomplished, but those lives we have touched that have been brought to us by the grace of God will remember and will smile, or chuckle, or laugh out loud.

I am not apologizing anymore for loving and being totally involved with my friends and family. My relationships give me the roots I need to be stable, support me when I am down and allow me to grow and plant my own seeds in other places. They provide me with rejuvenation when my soul is weary and plant their own seeds of wisdom in my life. And this is who I am!

Be blessed, be bold, be strong. For the Lord your God is with you and He will never forsake you. Go out and love and be free!

Brethren, let us pray...