Wishes - Ethiopian New Year

2016 has been a challenging year. We are grateful to the Almighty God for helping us through this difficult moment. There isn't a bad season or age. God has always created good things. It is not an evil age or era, but an evil generation emerges between the eras. When a generation becomes cursed, adultery, sodomites, greed, cruelty, and many other social evils grow between eras.

The last year of the 2016 Ethiopian calendar was unforgettable in Ethiopian history, particularly for the Amhara people. Many of our people have died this year. It would not be an exaggeration to state that this was a plague year for us living in the conflict zone sponsored by the wicked America. Because of the foolish Ethiopians' way of war, many left their families and orphaned their children when they passed away due to the fighting here. So sad!

I have personally experienced at least three key difficult events during the outgoing year:

1. The outgoing year was the year of wars in our place. It was a stressful year when the government blocked internet access for almost the whole year. We spent the New Year of 2016 in grief due to the war in the city where we live. Many of our people have been wearing black shirts during the previous year's New Year since there was an awful war in Bahirdar, just a few weeks before the New Year. We also spent the NY without wearing white traditional clothing as usual, recognizing the suffering of our fellow citizens, by standing in solidarity with our people in the community. We welcomed the previous New Year with a sad heart. After this era has passed, we shall discuss it as a story tomorrow, although it is heartbreaking that Amhara was massacred in his village.

Maicadra the second is close to my house, only 500 yards away, where many of our young people were slain in a neighborhood known as Kotetina.

I like to quote my sister Abaynesh Fanta: “Amhara is being massacred in his own country Ethiopia, which he loves more than anything else.” He is killed in his land where he fought colonial powers to dismantle and maintain the sovereignty of his nation for millennia.

Let us be clear and loud here. Amhara is being killed in his village today as a result of a war orchestrated by Western powers that are bitter about their defeat at the hands of the black people some years before. They have effectively used our feeble Ethiopians to harm the Amhara people. They are successful somehow but we ask Almighty God to intervene.

Beyond all things, I feel that we are discriminated against, humiliated, and detested by the world as it remains silent as we are being killed on our soil. Nobody cares about our misery and death. Of course, while I am not Amhara, I am one at heart. God has time for everybody and everything.

The most heartbreaking thing is that when we realize that most social media platforms, including YouTube and Facebook, as well as major Western media outlets, have banned the voices of the victim to let those aggressors keep committing atrocities in the Amhara, we will understand that our issue requires a spiritual war now more than ever in history. Some loudly dared and heard to say, "Stay away from people who act like victims in a problem they created" to undermine our outcry while they are the ones who created problems in our lives and beliefs.

We know that no one is with us during the passing year, except Almighty God. And when we hear some cruelties committed by our fellow Ethiopians on its own citizens, we know that the time has come for the devil; satan has controlled our consciousness.

Anyways, God has time for everything. The so-called great America will face significant consequences in the future as a result of the wrongs it has committed in our lives today. We don't have any power but we are assured to be saved with the help of Almighty God.

2. For the first time in my life, I was unfairly fired without warning from a job I had held for more than 18 years, in November this outgoing year. I believe that my pain is a sacrifice for the truth. I believe that this is an earthly punishment for publicly stating on LinkedIn that homosexuality is not God's will. Because of this truth, I am confident that God will not abandon me, even though I strongly feel I have lost many good friends this year because of my strong stand with truth. For me, my stand is a good service to my LORD... "Choose you this day whom ye will serve; but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD." Joshua 24:15.

Because of my position and beliefs, I now feel as if I am not just unemployed, but also an unemployable global citizen. Many people have gone to tremendous pains to harm me by reducing my visibility, including LinkedIn. After all, I see myself as if I am greater than the feeble LinkedIn itself, and my values are more serious than many fools on this platform. Time will tell all but I will keep the good struggle that will please only my God, not the silly men.

3. This past year, my two fathers passed away as I shared in one of my previous articles. Although we are heartbroken by the loss of our parents and an elderly blessing in our house, we thank God that they passed away peacefully, without difficulties and much of chronic illnesses. Death is life's puzzle that we should accept. Amen!

Finally, I keep my promise to share one more article with my fans and friends with a detailed review of my previous year, along with my new plans for the New Year.

We hope to the Almighty God that the following year brings all the best for Ethiopia.

Please pray for Ethiopia.

Though not really happy but, I wish all Ethiopians and our friends a happy New Year because the war here is actively going on here.

We welcome the NY with lots of excitement that our LORD will end our misery in the coming year and beyond.

Amen!!!

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