It was February 20, 2020, one month before Covid-19 sent us into what felt like an indefinite lockdown. Geoffrey and I visited my daughter, Gathegu, and her family in the suburbs of Atlanta. It was a dreary, cold, and rainy winter day. Inside their newly renovated living room, we settled in for a relaxing visit […]
The right clothing for church or religious occasions is an issue debited in some families, mine too, as to the decent way to dress and hairstyle. In my youth in revival Christian group I belonged, the short hair and head covering and dress below knees was the accepted style. In a simple, easy, and understanding
I failed to share with my children my life’s struggles, and how I thrived. I wore a face mask while bringing them up the way I thought was best for them. I put it on this page to tell it as it happened in my day that circumstances led me to do things for myself
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