Bits of the Gospel

A few days ago, an old friend called me to inform me that he was back in the country and he was really longing to see me. I was excited. "When do you feel ready to come to see me? I am able to adjust my timetable to have a few moments of relax with you," I offered excitedly. "I have just arrived at home. My mother is actually arranging my holidays already. She wants me around for a whole week. I will have to go to Mombasa for a week rest. That way I will have a chance to meet my brother and sister who are both working at the KPA. Anyway, can I come this Sunday afternoon?" he queried. "I think that is perfectly fitting for me. I will have celebrated my two masses by noon. Then, I will also have met the Junior Youths who are organising a prayer day. All that means I will have all the time for you. I am just eager," I hinted again. "Come ready to chat yourself dry. I am all ears already."   My friend arrived that Sunday at half past noon load...

I am not writing about politicians and the political situation in this country. I want to write what is flowing out of my heart now. I want to write about life and its many ways of giving you directions, its own "screen tips". When you cannot do anything, as in when a friend is grieving a loved one, something tells you to keep your mouth shut. Follow that tip. Accept to suffer silently. Accept the insolubility of the problem. Whenever you come to a very hot debate, when you cannot agree, there is an inner voice that elbows you to remain calm and even to shut up. Yes, follow that life tip. There is no need to be bitter because you know you are right. Actually, since you are cock sure of your knowlegde, you should be all smiles. Why suffer for being right? Why suffer under your own wrath? The greater the obstacle, the more glory. When you feel down and almost giving up. That very time, call all your strength that you may soldier on. You are about to become a hero or heroine. It...

Anybody who has been following the predicaments of this beloved country of ours must have suffered to some degree. We watched, horrified and mesmerized to say the least, as our own countrymen butchered one another for a flawed election. We have seen leaders duping an entire population and brainwashing others. We have seen MPS fight outside and inciting us young people to fight while back in parliament they are friends who hike their salaries and argue over power sharing as if that is what we had sent them in parliament to do. In sum, we have seen all sorts of evils land into our territory to devour us. Kenyans are a people with a unique sense of hope. While the Rift Valley was burning and blood flowing in place of water, we saw people of good will gather lorries of food and other necessities to go and console our very own Kenyans turned refugees in their own country. While the leaders were busy arguing over who should address the public first, we witnessed a section of private sector l...

The uproar caused by Ringera's reappointment as the chair of theanticorruption commission is, perhaps, what Kibaki's advisors wanted togenerate. Kibaki is a politician because he decides the course of the political wave in this country. He grabs the headlines by all means [for the wrong or right reasons]. His bold action of ignoring public opinion and the opinion of the parliamentarians is itself a move to draw the attention of the public and of the legislators from the urgent and pertinent issue of the Special Local Tribunal. For sometimes, we will be discussing this. By the way, it is not the integrity of Kibaki in question. It is Retired Justice Aaron Ringera being discussed. If Ringera's reappointment is quashed he willstill remain a friend to Kibaki. If he stays, Kibaki will have a friend up to the time he leaves office. We are, in fact, also discussing the Rt Honourable Raila Odinga. Is he in talking terms with the president? May be not. Those who told us that the two...