The soils that I drive my strength one was in the colonial Shamba (farm). I remember free skim milk for up to age eleven years. I recall shamba white man transporting us, my mother and sibling, to the concentration camp at Nakuru. How jubilant I was to have a ride from the white man. The […]
At far off, I could see smoke and the unknown people holding machetes and sticks standing, and strange people with machetes and sticks on church ground. The church structure burned down, and the stones not visible. Stones were thrown into a latrine pit deep. One hundred fifty feet deep to cover it. I stopped a
The Oprah Winfrey Show was my favorite TV show for many years. I learned one essential and helpful thing: washing the nose with water reduces a person’s chance of catching a cold and alleviates allergies. This practice is also referred to as Nasal Irrigation. Washing your nostrils and leaves them clean all the time. Warm
At the end of a busy day, a court summon was delivered to my house. The serviceman handed the document to me and left without a word. I appeared before a judge on the appointed day, and my accusers were present. In the judge’s chamber, the judge stated my offense, saying that I had a
The love of a mother-in-law. Her son, my late husband, and a young pastor ministered in Narok Nendeni area, Kenya, under the Presbyterian Church of East Africa (PCEA). I, a young wife and pregnant with our first baby, worked in Kirinyaga District, Kianyaga High School, Kenya, a distance of about two hundred miles away at
A great joy overwhelmed me last night, and I was overwhelmed with the love of Jesus when the following words of Jesus came into me: “…’ I am ascending to my father and your father, and my God and your God’” (John 20:17, NIV). This morning these words persisted in me. I am a sister
Geoffrey’s the only sister, close, loved sister. She was close to me. I carried her at my back whenever my mother walked to market from home to Karatina. I cried; my feet hurt from a long-distance walk from home to market and back home. My mother could not help me since she carried heavy farm
I struggled with heart burn long enough. I was fearful of being on routine medicine for the rest of my life for the problem. First, I stopped eating all my favorite foods that gave me heartburn. One day a thought came to me, “why don’t you make your stomach happy by eating something sweet before