Every One In Your Life Is A Rose

Have you ever wondered what life would be like if it was just all you alone in your life? When you would have no one but only you owning everything? When no one would be there to wipe your floor, no one to nurse your small kids? Yeah! I guess you know what am really talking about. Life would really be sucking. That is why God made those around you and brought them into your life. There is no greater reward you could give to them other than making them feel appreciated for coming into your life.
We don't live forever. Every opportunity you get to appreciate these people who come into your life, use it. In a span, those people are taken away from our lives. How sad we are left in tears. Tell them you love them. Show them the value they impact into your life. As valuable as a rose,so are they... Thank God for them and make this world the best place for them to be in...

There Is Great Value in Failure Too

Life is at its prime and at its happiest moment when everything is just going our way ad we are celebrating our success. How else can we celebrate this success if we do not engage the entire society around us. Our friends and family come and party with us. They tell us how we are just too blessed. And the list goes on and on. But then when we are faced with crisis, we often find ourselves in a problem with those people we thought could help us. We are left all alone to nurse our own wounds. We are left to endure the pain on our own. And like Rabbit says in his KAFIRI song, ….

…Fake friends na kivuli, wao hukua na tabia moja, wao hutokeza saa zile jua yangu imechomoza…

It is this time of loss that we most need encouragement. Loss isn’t the end of everything. Sometimes we have to lose to learn how to stay humble. If every moment of our lives is just all about achievement and nothing else, how then shall we learn how to handle losses. How then shall we learn how to handle discouragements from those people we even think could assist us? That is the importance of loss.

Loss doesn’t  mean you did everything wrong, no! Sometimes it just means that you can do it in a better way. Sometimes it just means that you can walk the road of success more bold. 

Do not cry when failure comes befalling you, rather,

thank God everything has been burned down,

You can begin anew at least.

We lose to build again. We level all our past efforts, to build a new thing in the end.

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Its Not Enough To Dream

If there is an experience that each one of us ever wishes that it came back is the childhood days’ experience. When you just felt free to do everything with no restrictions(just incase you don’t pop into trouble). When we played freely like kites. But one major experience that I never cease to remember each time I look at my younger bro is the experience of dreams. Surprised? You too must have played this game. In the evening dad would come home and give us sweets, but our focus wasn’t the 5bob lollipop he gave us, rather the day’s daily. We would just Get it and scramble for a good place where you would get the best access to the paper. We would flip page to page and shout at the top of our voices, “Mine…” Hahaha! The best part about the game was when you grabbed the best cars, houses and of course toy cars(sorry I never had a sister to love dollies).  Dad would just laugh and enjoy the moment with these two small cartoons too new to the realities of the world. That was back in the day. How life runs fast. That is where we build dreams.

Right now, every other youth, if not adult has at least a dream. We all wish for an ever-after story of our lives. Then come knocking the demands of our families that the want us to really achieve. Our dreams are still intact inside us remember. Most of us dream of being C.E.Os and bosses at some big places. Being the next big thing in the Music, athletics or real estate industries. But most a time we forget the price we got to pay. For how long shall you keep reading the stories of the people who ever succeeded and you aint ready to go out there and make it big like they did? For how long shall you keep preparing for your big bang? For how long shall you keep saying what you want to be five years from now? For how long shall you keep crying that you want to begin but lack the capital? Like you read from the stories of all those who made it in the industries, begin now. Yes. Begin now and not tomorrow. It is not enough to just dream, there is a point of achievement called START! Even every computer or phone program has a point called START! Don’t just dream! Begin!

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With Such Fear For Tomorrow,How Do We Face Today

Ever wondered what it would feel like when those around you wake up to one sad surprising morning when you are no more. When the promising dreams you had for that day are just but a nightmare as people narrate about who you used to be?When the days seem to drag and the nights are long for them as they mourn you. When women wail at the top of their voices as men are on their backs putting you 6-feat below the ground? Ever wondered what this world would be left like, and most of all the gap you will have left in the world? Ever wondered about that? If not, just envision that today.

With this in mind, we realise that the days of man are few below the sun and he ought to do all he can ever do within the few days that they are given to live. Yesterday is gone and buried in the dark past that we can't go back to. Tomorrow is a tale of luck that we can never be sure of its outcome. Yeah! Today is the only we are so sure about. With fear of where you will ever get a job after graduating, how will you face that calculus, With the fear of when you shall have the chronic stage of that cancer you have how shall you be able to face the work that you must do to earn a living today? With such fear of where we will be tomorrow how shall we have the courage to confront the challenges that are always there in every day? For so we must learn to give our hearts an answer for today. Today is the only cash we have at hand, lets spend it well. Face the day as a hero! You are a winner coz you at least made it to today.

God Begins From Where You Are

When Hon. Dr. Alfred Mutua(Governor) rose to power, everyone was all over with news that he didn't deserve to be on that reign. Men and women from all walks of clans, both young and old came out to claim that He out not to to have been put up there. But then Dr.Mutua didn't listen to their criticisms. He rather began working on the very first day he got into office. No need to day what this guy has acchieved in Machakos county over the past few years. His deeds unlike those of his Critics have been tested and verified. But, my main point isnt on his political affliations, rather am interested in his way of work. Dr.Mutua  didn't wait until he received a ceremonious start off bash from the people, no, he begun. 

And true to the words of the old adage in the bible, 

And I will bless the work of your hands...

What do you expect God to bless when you spent your whole day whining and whining about what didn't go well with your yesterdays. When you waste your tears crying over where to get the funds to run your projects. No! God needs to see that you are making a move and true to His word He will bless you. Begin today. Just gather the little resources that are at your disposal now, put your hands to work and begin. You can never expect God to bless something that He isnt seeing even beginning. And the point of beginning is right where you are. Do not wait until that moment you will get wealth and riches to start running towards your goal, like the famous Juliani, ....Millioni from ten bob, jiulize nilipata wapi extra zeroes.....(Exponential Potential)

...Kila mtu ana zeroes, the more ziko kwa result slip, the more unaccomplain, the more ziko kwa cheque ina increase smile...

You can never win the medal until you have the courage to leave the beginning line in the race. You got to begin. 

 

Keep Riding

Everyday we wake up to a new pain and adventure in life. Riding iile are crying and wish that things will change. But at times we look at life and see no other way out. Tears is all we can embrace. But then, where does it all end in. Sometimes we just listen to other people tell us their story and realize that ours isnt a  problem,

Rather ix jz a walk in paradise. 

Keep moving dear. 

Mungu anakuita mbarikiwa. 

You are more than a conqurer. 

Even the darkest nyt finally gives way to morning. 

Keep Riding

LOVE v|$ TRUST

Ever got to that moment you feel like you should not have said what you just said to someone?
Yeah! That's how it felt this day I came from running the day's errands, and went to the nearby coffee base to hang out with my boys. Obvious everyone couldn't wait to hear who we were going to tear down to the last drop of their blood. I couldn't wait to just give my generous contribution to this ideology-murder. Poor me! I was in for it tonight.
Grrrrr! Went of Ken's the noisy china-phone which he was contemplating on how to assassinate as of late it had become his number one point of humiliation! Aha! It was his secret girl friend calling, no need to say that he had to pick this one call. Long story short, Ken and His GirlFriend were in for our mauling that evening. Ken was just so certain that his girl was faithful, but then Vicky took the day home by proving him wrong. Vicky kept insisting that the girl is only yours when you are with her, when she is gone she is someone's property. In short, Vicky wanted to justify his Campus-Made habit of cheating, that why not cheat, after all she is sleeping on another man's chest. Of course we took sides with Vicky coz ofcourse how would you move to be brought to your knees by this quad team of accountants. But deep inside I knew one thing, Trust is not something you force into someone, God has it all in the making.

Sometimes we feel like we are being cheated on by those we love and mean the world to us. Suspicion grows into something big and as life has it, when we collide with these people we let the cat out. And that may just mean the end of everything just incase we do not happen to understand the people we care for. That aside, trust comes from high above. Ever asked yourself why that matatu driver finds it hard to follow all the rules of speeding, but yet they always keep left when on a heavy traffic jam? Is it for the fear of colliding?
If we do anything out of fear, some time later we find ourselves doing it the wrong way. But with a goal and when we believe in the passion that we have for that goal we tend to do things the right way. God's spirit always makes those people we love to look at the situation they are in and at least make the right choice. God's spirit condemns us when we are about to sin. For love to stand we must set aside time to give to God the best prayer for our love. If we dont, dear, you will forever be like Vicky, at least you now know I don't believe in his ideology,though that night I backed him.

Don't Facebook, Face Them!

Sometimes our lives are just a story we never wish to tell to any one. Some times we just stare into the vast space and are locked into the one undying and ever there reality of what our nest day could just into. We shed the tears all night long when each single minute seems to drag so slow like it aint in a mood to move. Then the morning comes. At least we are thrown back to a new day where we will put on the mask of pretence.

But at some point we realise(If we dont get tired) that the longer we put on that mask the longer we will run away from the one truth that we must face. And that is REALITY. No matter how far we run away from we can't forever run forever from the reality. Our each single heartbeat is our reality. My brother my sister. Life sometimes hits us real Big. We gotta learn that some lessons are just meant to be learnt the hard way. Lets face our fears no matter how big they happen to appear. Worrying about tomorrow will never solve the problems, rather it takes away today's joy and happiness. Dont waste your precious energy and time posting your problems all over the social medias, NO! Dont Facebook Your Problems, Face Them!

by Titus M.

Sorry I Did Not Trust You

 

Submitted by shaheen 

Sorry I did not trust you…

This incident happened around 7 years ago . I was not married at that time: I was seeing this guy(my husband now) for quite a few years and we decided to marry.
Before marriage, my family is a lower middle class one , We all are attached and share a close bond amongst all the family members. I wanted to help my father ever since I was graduated and hence I took small jobs to take care of my fees and other expenses. My father was very proud of me as I got a job in one of the MNC’s and since then I have been taking care of my younger brothers and their needs.With my job, me and this guy(my husband now)have started a small office as we want to do something in life on his own: With our regular jobs, we were investing time and effort on our new office which was doing quite fine by then.
My family was more important to me .. and I want to show all the luxuries to my parents and younger brother who always had adjusted with the little pocket money and little comforts my father provided them…yet we were so happy together. Once I got a job, I wanted to change everything…I wanted to buy everything that they deserve , at their age .. Im happy that yes I could do everything I thought .. gifting them everything they need at the proper time… and sometimes their friends envy being my brothers and ask me sometimes to adopt them as my brothers….I felt proud too…
Two of my brothers are humble and caring towards me. I share a motherly bond with my younger one as he is too younger .. and I was his teacher from his school days….On his birthday, I wanted to gift him a bike as he used to travel by bus to his college….I had half of the amount ready to be paid as initial amount and the remaining amount I want to take two wheeler loan …Hence I gave my other brother the amount and ask to book the vehicle and to get the vehicle ready to be delivered by his birthday… We both invested 10 days to get him his favorite bike,,, searching for the agents who could deliver on the special day and to get the amount gathered…. On the day , my brother had to pay the initial amount, I got a news that someone has stolen the amount from the place they live and quite a few things have reported missing.. I lost all hopes, shocked.. at the same time angry .. seeing that I could not get him the best gift of his life….
I did not tell this guy( my husband now) all this cos I don’t want him to interfere, tell me not to spoil my brothers with gifts as such and blah blah….
On the day I lost money .. I was so depressed ….he asked me what happened why I was so low…. I burst out in tears and told him that I wanted to gift my brother a bike but could not do it as im having no money….i may accumulate it in the next 2 months.. but I want to do it now… He took out the debit card and gave it to me and told me to fulfill my wish..and that is the company amount and I have to return as soon as I can cos we have to pay the salaries as well to the employees….
I thanked him and told him that I never believed that he will support me… He told me “ I did not do it for your brother, I did it for you… I cant see you cry.. not the debit card,I may have given anything at the moment which makes you happy”.. God.. how can I thank him… I did not even trust him…I returned the payment in the promised time
Till now.. I continue giving my family whatever I can whatever I thought I should.. to make them lead a decent life….Thank you love .. for being with me.

Sorry I did not trust you.....
Thank you that you chose my happiness over money…
May death take over me before anything ill happens to our beautiful relationship…

I am Living To Tell

My name is Laurie Beck and at the young age of 42 I was diagnosed with an incurable cancer...non Hodgkin lymphoma, marginal cell leukemia and it was in my spleen. I was told immediate chemo. I sought not just two opinions but decided on a third. Two doctors said immediate chemo and the third said "watchful waiting". I chose watchful waiting. This is where my true journey begins. For the first time I needed to be quiet and listen to my inner voice. I have written two books one called Eight Little Lessons of hope and healing and I am Living to Tell. I am on a mission to get my story out there and spread the message of HOPE! I am considered a "one percenter".