“Whoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them,” (Proverbs 13:24, NIV). As a young parent, I used my parents’ discipline methods on my own kids. I grew up knowing that parents and adults were never to be questioned, and I found it difficult to […]
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My father died when he was 85 years old. He would recount his experience growing up as an only child, his mother having been the first wife of Mugo, son of Nderi. His father, Mugo, was considered to be wealthy enough to support his three wives and other sons and daughters. As the only child,
Things that seemed imaginary or a paradise in my generation are happening in the real world today. Science and technology have developed and have made those imaginary things a reality, doable, and possible. If I belonged in the current generation where the things that seemed mythical are possible, I would have planned my life in
One Sunday afternoon in December 1982, my husband and I had spent time with my mother-in-law in Nairobi, where she was visiting her daughter. We made it back home at 11:00 p.m., and I was notified by the gatekeeper that my supervisor needed me to report a theft to the police. My supervisor and I had
When my children were young and before they were of school age, I believed that only the teacher was supposed to teach them because they were trained to do so. Therefore, I focused on teaching them everything else except academic-related things until they started attending daycare at age three and four. Today, I know that
One Sunday morning, about fifty years ago, my sister said a derogatory word, and I reacted with intense anger. I felt lonely and had no shoulder to lean on, and my husband was far from home. Instead of going to church, I decided to visit my husband in Naivasha. He was a minister in the
I became a member of the Full Gospel Churches of Kenya (FGCK), Nakuru, in 1978, and for several years, I was taught the ways of the church and carried on an extensive study of the Bible. I became an ordained church elder ten years later and was charged with leading the neighborhood fellowship at Kivumbuini
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My parents and wife lived on George’s farm in Nanyuki, where there were no churches. It was a new settlement, but one elderly lady, Miriamu, was a member of Full Gospel Churches of Kenya (FGCK) before moved to the farm. She would wake up between 3 and 6 a.m., then spent the time preaching and
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