My day in a discotheque

Christians can club!!!Am not talking about a Christian gig where we have gospel music being played and consistent “to God be the glory” interjections…am talking about this new joint I have discovered. It has no age limits. Money talks at the door. Drinks are allowed, provided you are not unruly, but smoking is within smoking zones; usually outside.

I need to mention what I was offered today. I had just sunk down a seat hoping the loud music will drown my exhaustion. I’ll admit am getting really used to this environment. So this guy who had sat next to me decided to give me some khat. Not the over the counter khat (average “shamba”), as he insisted, but that this was the legit khat (mirraa). Thoughts that were rushing through my mind at this time included isn’t this doing drugs? Am I intoxicating God’s temple if i took this? All this while the mirra is in my hands.

After the guy observed me for a while he asked me, “kwani nimekupatia maua ya Valentine!!KULA!!!” I laughed hysterically as I changed seats. So drugs are in this joint. Graphitti all over, some religious some of artists. If you sit in a two setter in this joint, next to a naughty girl, you can catch rubz. Fights are also common.

Last week this lady caused a scene when she boxed the ticketing guy claiming she wanted a refund. There are sections where there are screens and you can watch video djs do their thing. Trust me if you have virgin eyes, you will be corrupted. So how does a Christian bring him/herself to such a place? I asked myself this question when it was early morning and I was here. It is then that I noticed it had become my Nairobi habit.

My reasons are many but when I share them they sound like excuses. I think if I was to be real, the place gives me an identity. An identity of blending in with the world. So when Michuki wants to enforce the noise reduction laws, am very happy. I support the move coz now I can panda a matatu and am not in a disco. In fact I can panda any other matatu. No more boom-twafs. No more sitting next to mirra guys, naughty girls, obscene music videos…all just because you want to reach where you are going early.

najivunia kuwa mkenya

Depending on what history book you’ve read, you probably believe certain tribes fought for Kenya’s independence. You get this impression depending on the author’s tribe of your history book. I got this from the few books I’ve read at the Whispers Book Den. I want to narrate one story as one practicing the principles of the third liberation movement in Kenya. Post independence and post multi party Kenyan if you like. Let me give you a background to my story. The year is 1922, March 14th. A courageous young man named Harry Thuku is arrested and orders are given to deport him to Kisumu. On this same day, Indians in Kenya were holding a mass meeting in Nairobi’s Jeevanjee Gardens, protesting against the arrest on March 11 in India of Mahatma Gandhi.

So the morning after Harry’s arrest, the leaders of his affiliate Nairobi political party decided to call what amounted to a general strike in Nairobi. The striking workers marched in the afternoon to the police station (then located on the site of the present University of Nairobi opposite the Norfolk Hotel) to secure Harry’s release. The original crowd numbered 1000 armed with heavy sticks. The crowd turned several Europeans out of rickshaws, and ordered the rickshaw drivers to join them. At this point it was to number 2000. By mid day the next day the crowd was between 7000-8000.

What were these guys doing? The Rev W.J. Wright Vicar of All saints, writes; “the crowd there was mostly seated in groups and very orderly. I (Wright) walked through most of the groups and was struck by their apparent peacefulness. It reminded me (Wright) of a Sunday School treat…”

That is the background the story. Mary Muthoni Nyanjiru (from location 10 of Fort Hall District(Embu area) leapt to her feet, pulled her dress right up over her shoulders and shouted to the men: “You take my dress and give me your trousers. You men are cowards. What are you waiting for? Our leader is in there. Lets get him.” The hundreds of women trilled their clothes in approbation and from that moment on trouble was inevitable. Mary and the others pushed on until the bayonets of the rifles were pricking at their throats, and then the firing started. Mary was one of the first to die.

These are the movies Kenyans should be making. I can guarantee you they will sell. There are many other great heroic stories. My point in sharing this story was to talk about fortitude. Douglas McManaman defines fortitude as the virtue that moderates the emotions of fear and daring in accordance with right reason. It is not, as some are wont to believe, extraordinary daring. Sitting in a bathtub full of deadly snakes, or jumping from one speedboat to another, are acts of daring, not acts of fortitude. Had the person been attempting to rescue a little girl trapped in a pit of snakes, or a man unable to steer the speedboat as a result of a heart attack or stroke, we could speak of fortitude, but not without a pursuit of the good.

Najivunia kuwa mkenya. To be the patriot who will bring hope, reduce poverty and suffering in my country; the modern day colonials; PS: just in case some women read this and start the stories of strength of a woman, women empowerment…that is not my intent. We all have a role to play, and if men don’t play their role, nature will fill the vacuum. Lets all be part of the solution. Let’s make our grand children proud to be Kenyans. These guys died for our country 40years before we got independence. I believe with God on our side we, 40years from today, we can make Kenya a great nation with our various acts of fortitude.

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my favourite advert on Tv(local) presently is the AIDS awareness campaign. it features a narrative by Jimmy Gathu with the repetitive theme irrespective of the story. the theme is “wacha mpango wa Kando”>>>”stop having clandes.” the campaign targets married couples. the reason why i really love this ad, is not the creativity (which is good) but the stand of be faithful to your one partner. in fact my icing is actually what they do not say, which is characteristic of all their previous campaigns “in case you have or must have a clande(mpango wa kando) use a condom.”

so i can’t hep but ask, why tell grown ups to stay faithful to their partners and NOT have multiple sexual partners yet you tell children and the youth to use a condom just in case they can’t chill. who needs greater direction i ask?

men don’t cry

Last week I attended the global leadership summit here in Nairobi. It was a great experience. The networking opportunities were endless. With over 1000 pastors and missionaries and about another 1000 Christian businessmen and corporate world people it was really great.

The speakers were phenomenal. The president and CEO of Compassion International is the one speaker who didn’t move me much. He was sobbing all through his presentation. Let me say crying. At the top of my mind was the saying “men don’t cry”. I was very uneasy for the one hour. Two years back at the time I was seeing this summit’s promo material for the first time, I attended a session called “inner healing.”

Inner healing is about getting in touch with your unresolved issues especially resolving emotional abuse. I must admit I almost cried during this session, but I didn’t. Before you think am some cold heartless freak, I’ll just come upfront and say my conviction first then explain>>>men want to cry but don’t.

I don’t know about your world, but my world is filled with hurt, lies, conceit, lust…in my world, when you share an idea or an intention of what you want to do, I have people who remind me of my failures, the impracticability of the idea, my bank account status, while others just point out how less fortunate I am than them. In my world, when you are in a triad you will be the hen that the others will pick on. The laughing stock of the boys in your hood or your clique or even you bible study group. Others will out rightly show you that they don’t believe in you let alone your dream.

I don’t even want to start on the ladies and their maintenance demands with the “let’s be real” or “let’s be practical” crap. They are all the same; some hiding in the forest of Christianity thinking their wolves’ jaws and claws can’t be seen. Rejection is another horrible feeling some of these ladies extend to men in their quest for not settling for anything less in a man.

So when I wake up in the morning, I can choose to cry when people do these things to me or I can choose not to cry. When I go to sleep at night and thoughts of my day with my friends, clients, acquaintances, enemies cycle my mind I can again choose to cry or don’t and sleep like a baby. So I hope you understand when I say men don’t cry

If you’re crying about things in your life, get you thumb off your mouth, pull your pants up and bite the bullet. It’s a tough world out there.

Have a great week not crying nor grumbling.

PS: the writer is not a counselor.

THE HOMECOMING AND PYGMALION

I attended a great play over the weekend called “the homecoming”. The play is about the life of a politician. I loved the concept. The violent scenes, the cops casting, the lunje dances and music and I could go on. The tying of this modern day story to the Christian faith was just the icing of the play. WHAT!!!i didn’t see that one coming. It was really great. Am thinking how I can throw in that I know the writer/director of this master piece but I don’t know where to put this important info best.
Anyway if you didn’t get to watch it, get the DVD. Or buy for a friend if you enjoyed it like I did. I read a scene from George Bernard Shaws’ play, Pygmalion, where Eliza Dolittle explains to Freddie that kinda ties to the general theme I experienced over the weekend;
“You see, really and truly, apart from the things anyone can pick up (the dressing and the proper way of speaking, and so on) the difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she is treated. I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgs, because he always treats me like a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.”
Do you take time out to consider how you treat people?

10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job

i was preparing a concept paper for a presentation due, when i came across this article by Steve Pavlina. it’s a great read and a fairly old article.i’d like to dedicate this to Karma(who couldn’t see how you can start your biz after campus) and all my pals who i stopped calling to meet during the day coz they have a job.PS: i stopped doing after 5pm meetings (except if it’s a church) with those employed people-thought you should know just incase you want to do biz and you tell me ati we meet after 5pm.any way, i hope you enjoy it as much as i did.the language was a bit strong so i’ve edited it a bit.

Just for fun I recently asked Erin, “Now that the kids are in summer school, don’t you think it’s about time you went out and got yourself a job? I hate seeing you wallow in unemployment for so long.”

She smiled and said, “Wow. I have been unemployed a really long time. That’s weird… I like it!”

Neither of us have had jobs since the ’90s (my only job was in 1992), so we’ve been self-employed for quite a while. In our household it’s a running joke for one of us to say to the other, “Maybe you should get a job, derelict!”

It’s like the scene in The Three Stooges where Moe tells Curly to get a job, and Curly backs away, saying, “No, please… not that! Anything but that!”

It’s funny that when people reach a certain age, such as after graduating college, they assume it’s time to go out and get a job. But like many things the masses do, just because everyone does it doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. In fact, if you’re reasonably intelligent, getting a job is one of the worst things you can do to support yourself. There are far better ways to make a living than selling yourself into indentured servitude.

Here are some reasons you should do everything in your power to avoid getting a job:

1. Income for dummies.

Getting a job and trading your time for money may seem like a good idea. There’s only one problem with it. It’s stupid! It’s the stupidest way you can possibly generate income! This is truly income for dummies.

Why is getting a job so dumb? Because you only get paid when you’re working. Don’t you see a problem with that, or have you been so thoroughly brainwashed into thinking it’s reasonable and intelligent to only earn income when you’re working? Have you never considered that it might be better to be paid even when you’re not working? Who taught you that you could only earn income while working? Some other brainwashed employee perhaps?

Don’t you think your life would be much easier if you got paid while you were eating, sleeping, and playing with the kids too? Why not get paid 24/7? Get paid whether you work or not. Don’t your plants grow even when you aren’t tending to them? Why not your bank account?

Who cares how many hours you work? Only a handful of people on this entire planet care how much time you spend at the office. Most of us won’t even notice whether you work 6 hours a week or 60. But if you have something of value to provide that matters to us, a number of us will be happy to pull out our wallets and pay you for it. We don’t care about your time — we only care enough to pay for the value we receive. Do you really care how long it took me to write this article? Would you pay me twice as much if it took me 6 hours vs. only 3?

Non-dummies often start out on the traditional income for dummies path. So don’t feel bad if you’re just now realizing you’ve been suckered. Non-dummies eventually realize that trading time for money is indeed extremely dumb and that there must be a better way. And of course there is a better way. The key is to de-couple your value from your time.

Smart people build systems that generate income 24/7, especially passive income. This can include starting a business, building a web site, becoming an investor, or generating royalty income from creative work. The system delivers the ongoing value to people and generates income from it, and once it’s in motion, it runs continuously whether you tend to it or not. From that moment on, the bulk of your time can be invested in increasing your income (by refining your system or spawning new ones) instead of merely maintaining your income.

This web site is an example of such a system. At the time of this writing, it generates about $9000 a month in income for me (update: $40,000 a month as of 10/31/06), and it isn’t my only income stream either. I write each article just once (fixed time investment), and people can extract value from them year after year. The web server delivers the value, and other systems (most of which I didn’t even build and don’t even understand) collect income and deposit it automatically into my bank account. It’s not perfectly passive, but I love writing and would do it for free anyway. But of course it cost me a lot of money to launch this business, right? Um, yeah, $9 is an awful lot these days (to register the domain name). Everything after that was profit.

Sure it takes some upfront time and effort to design and implement your own income-generating systems. But you don’t have to reinvent the wheel — feel free to use existing systems like ad networks and affiliate programs. Once you get going, you won’t have to work so many hours to support yourself. Wouldn’t it be nice to be out having dinner with your spouse, knowing that while you’re eating, you’re earning money? If you want to keep working long hours because you enjoy it, go right ahead. If you want to sit around doing nothing, feel free. As long as your system continues delivering value to others, you’ll keep getting paid whether you’re working or not.

Your local bookstore is filled with books containing workable systems others have already designed, tested, and debugged. Nobody is born knowing how to start a business or generate investment income, but you can easily learn it. How long it takes you to figure it out is irrelevant because the time is going to pass anyway. You might as well emerge at some future point as the owner of income-generating systems as opposed to a lifelong wage slave. This isn’t all or nothing. If your system only generates a few hundred dollars a month, that’s a significant step in the right direction.

2. Limited experience.

You might think it’s important to get a job to gain experience. But that’s like saying you should play golf to get experience playing golf. You gain experience from living, regardless of whether you have a job or not. A job only gives you experience at that job, but you gain ”experience” doing just about anything, so that’s no real benefit at all. Sit around doing nothing for a couple years, and you can call yourself an experienced meditator, philosopher, or politician.

The problem with getting experience from a job is that you usually just repeat the same limited experience over and over. You learn a lot in the beginning and then stagnate. This forces you to miss other experiences that would be much more valuable. And if your limited skill set ever becomes obsolete, then your experience won’t be worth squat. In fact, ask yourself what the experience you’re gaining right now will be worth in 20-30 years. Will your job even exist then?

Consider this. Which experience would you rather gain? The knowledge of how to do a specific job really well — one that you can only monetize by trading your time for money – or the knowledge of how to enjoy financial abundance for the rest of your life without ever needing a job again? Now I don’t know about you, but I’d rather have the latter experience. That seems a lot more useful in the real world, wouldn’t you say?

3. Lifelong domestication.

Getting a job is like enrolling in a human domestication program. You learn how to be a good pet.

Look around you. Really look. What do you see? Are these the surroundings of a free human being? Or are you living in a cage for unconscious animals? Have you fallen in love with the color beige?

How’s your obedience training coming along? Does your master reward your good behavior? Do you get disciplined if you fail to obey your master’s commands?

Is there any spark of free will left inside you? Or has your conditioning made you a pet for life?

Humans are not meant to be raised in cages. You poor thing…

4. Too many mouths to feed.

Employee income is the most heavily taxed there is. In the USA you can expect that about half your salary will go to taxes. The tax system is designed to disguise how much you’re really giving up because some of those taxes are paid by your employer, and some are deducted from your paycheck. But you can bet that from your employer’s perspective, all of those taxes are considered part of your pay, as well as any other compensation you receive such as benefits. Even the rent for the office space you consume is considered, so you must generate that much more value to cover it. You might feel supported by your corporate environment, but keep in mind that you’re the one paying for it.

Another chunk of your income goes to owners and investors. That’s a lot of mouths to feed.

It isn’t hard to understand why employees pay the most in taxes relative to their income. After all, who has more control over the tax system? Business owners and investors or employees?

You only get paid a fraction of the real value you generate. Your real salary may be more than triple what you’re paid, but most of that money you’ll never see. It goes straight into other people’s pockets.

What a generous person you are!

5. Way too risky.

Many employees believe getting a job is the safest and most secure way to support themselves.

Morons.

Social conditioning is amazing. It’s so good it can even make people believe the exact opposite of the truth.

Does putting yourself in a position where someone else can turn off all your income just by saying two words (”You’re fired”) sound like a safe and secure situation to you? Does having only one income stream honestly sound more secure than having 10?

The idea that a job is the most secure way to generate income is just silly. You can’t have security if you don’t have control, and employees have the least control of anyone. If you’re an employee, then your real job title should be professional gambler.

6. Having an evil bovine master.

When you run into an idiot in the entrepreneurial world, you can turn around and head the other way. When you run into an idiot in the corporate world, you have to turn around and say, “Sorry, boss.”

Did you know that the word boss comes from the Dutch word baas, which historically means master? Another meaning of the word boss is “a cow or bovine.” And in many video games, the boss is the evil dude that you have to kill at the end of a level.

So if your boss is really your evil bovine master, then what does that make you? Nothing but a turd in the herd.

Who’s your daddy?

7. Begging for money.

When you want to increase your income, do you have to sit up and beg your master for more money? Does it feel good to be thrown some extra Scooby Snacks now and then?

Or are you free to decide how much you get paid without needing anyone’s permission but your own?

If you have a business and one customer says “no” to you, you simply say “next.”

8. An inbred social life.

Many people treat their jobs as their primary social outlet. They hang out with the same people working in the same field. Such incestuous relations are social dead ends. An exciting day includes deep conversations about the company’s switch from Sparkletts to Arrowhead, the delay of Microsoft’s latest operating system, and the unexpected delivery of more Bic pens. Consider what it would be like to go outside and talk to strangers. Ooooh… scary! Better stay inside where it’s safe.

If one of your co-slaves gets sold to another master, do you lose a friend? If you work in a male-dominated field, does that mean you never get to talk to women above the rank of receptionist? Why not decide for yourself whom to socialize with instead of letting your master decide for you? Believe it or not, there are locations on this planet where free people congregate. Just be wary of those jobless folk — they’re a crazy bunch!

9. Loss of freedom.

It takes a lot of effort to tame a human being into an employee. The first thing you have to do is break the human’s independent will. A good way to do this is to give them a weighty policy manual filled with nonsensical rules and regulations. This leads the new employee to become more obedient, fearing that s/he could be disciplined at any minute for something incomprehensible. Thus, the employee will likely conclude it’s safest to simply obey the master’s commands without question. Stir in some office politics for good measure, and we’ve got a freshly minted mind slave.

As part of their obedience training, employees must be taught how to dress, talk, move, and so on. We can’t very well have employees thinking for themselves, now can we? That would ruin everything.

God forbid you should put a plant on your desk when it’s against the company policy. Oh no, it’s the end of the world! Cindy has a plant on her desk! Summon the enforcers! Send Cindy back for another round of sterility training!

Free human beings think such rules and regulations are silly of course. The only policy they need is: “Be smart. Be nice. Do what you love. Have fun.”

10. Becoming a coward.

Have you noticed that employed people have an almost endless capacity to whine about problems at their companies? But they don’t really want solutions – they just want to vent and make excuses why it’s all someone else’s fault. It’s as if getting a job somehow drains all the free will out of people and turns them into spineless cowards. If you can’t call your boss a jerk now and then without fear of getting fired, you’re no longer free. You’ve become your master’s property.

When you work around cowards all day long, don’t you think it’s going to rub off on you? Of course it will. It’s only a matter of time before you sacrifice the noblest parts of your humanity on the altar of fear: first courage… then honesty… then honor and integrity… and finally your independent will. You sold your humanity for nothing but an illusion. And now your greatest fear is discovering the truth of what you’ve become.

I don’t care how badly you’ve been beaten down. It is never too late to regain your courage. Never!

Still want a job?

If you’re currently a well-conditioned, well-behaved employee, your most likely reaction to the above will be defensiveness. It’s all part of the conditioning. But consider that if the above didn’t have a grain of truth to it, you wouldn’t have an emotional reaction at all. This is only a reminder of what you already know. You can deny your cage all you want, but the cage is still there. Perhaps this all happened so gradually that you never noticed it until now… like a lobster enjoying a nice warm bath.

If any of this makes you mad, that’s a step in the right direction. Anger is a higher level of consciousness than apathy, so it’s a lot better than being numb all the time. Any emotion — even confusion — is better than apathy. If you work through your feelings instead of repressing them, you’ll soon emerge on the doorstep of courage. And when that happens, you’ll have the will to actually do something about your situation and start living like the powerful human being you were meant to be instead of the domesticated pet you’ve been trained to be.

Happily jobless

What’s the alternative to getting a job? The alternative is to remain happily jobless for life and to generate income through other means. Realize that you earn income by providing value — not time – so find a way to provide your best value to others, and charge a fair price for it. One of the simplest and most accessible ways is to start your own business. Whatever work you’d otherwise do via employment, find a way to provide that same value directly to those who will benefit most from it. It takes a bit more time to get going, but your freedom is easily worth the initial investment of time and energy. Then you can buy your own Scooby Snacks for a change.

And of course everything you learn along the way, you can share with others to generate even more value. So even your mistakes can be monetized.

One of the greatest fears you’ll confront is that you may not have any real value to offer others. Maybe being an employee and getting paid by the hour is the best you can do. Maybe you just aren’t worth that much. That line of thinking is all just part of your conditioning. It’s absolute nonsense. As you begin to dump such brainwashing, you’ll soon recognize that you have the ability to provide enormous value to others and that people will gladly pay you for it. There’s only one thing that prevents you from seeing this truth — fear.

All you really need is the courage to be yourself. Your real value is rooted in who you are, not what you do. The only thing you need actually do is express your real self to the world. You’ve been told all sort of lies as to why you can’t do that. But you’ll never know true happiness and fulfillment until you summon the courage to do it anyway.

The next time someone says to you, “Get a job,” I suggest you reply as Curly did: ”No, please… not that! Anything but that!” Then poke him right in the eyes.

You already know deep down that getting a job isn’t what you want. So don’t let anyone try to tell you otherwise. Learn to trust your inner wisdom, even if the whole world says you’re wrong and foolish for doing so. Years from now you’ll look back and realize it was one of the best decisions you ever made.

Final thoughts

While I wouldn’t recommend starting on online business for everyone, for many people it’s one of the best ways to generate income without a job. It has certainly worked disgustingly well for me. If you’re interested in learning more about this option, please check out Build Your Own Successful Online Business for details.

Flirting and darting

Fridah was a great friend. She used to work at a cellphone shop in my hometown. For the one year before I went to campus we met daily!!! Yes everyday. We always had new vybe at the time of our meeting. We had lunch together and even went to church together. We shared books, our dreams, hopes, plans, fears, our friends, our lives. When I turned 19 during my birthday party she told me I should never let any woman take advantage of me (I have toned this down).

I lost her contacts. For some period in time she was mteja. Then I lost my SIM and hadn’t memorized her number. I have tried to find her on FB in vain. I’ve tried getting her number back in vain. The fact that she was 7years older than me didn’t bother us one bit.
I’d really like to know what she is up to.

We met one time. It was an evening. I was heading back to campus from a date. I was still not familiar with the city so I can’t remember where which street it was nor which building it was where we met.I think God used Fridah to give me confidence in talking with women. You see I used to be very shy, especially towards ladies. Going to a same sex school didn’t help.

I have heard of alpha males and it’s said married men are polished. The best advice any young single lady can be given is to keep away from them. I am not at this game level but at least I can sustain a conversation with a lady without acting like an *** (read bad example to the male species)

For this confidence I am grateful. My confidence sometimes goes through the window though. I have met about two or three ladies who’ve made me act like that little boy who couldn’t help but be uneasy around a beauty. I met one who did this to me in the beginning of this month. I was so speechless. I couldn’t even ask for her number. Yea, I know guys, I kicked myself enough times. Then to escape I got busier. You can imagine my ecstasy when we became friends on FB last week. Then checking out her profile and seeing she is single:-)

was Jesus broke or poor?part 11

On Sunday i visited my home church’s mother church.i used to go here for sometime(in my final year in campus and the first year after before i moved to my present church).the pastor is a great pastor and leader.

Osacr Muriu (the pastor) is doing a great series on poverty. i have a feeling i’ll be visiting again this Sunday. the sermon really challenged me especially because i have been trying to undestand poverty since last year when i saw a homeless person in a different light. i had since realized if i didn’t pay these bills i’d be there with them eating garbage for breakfast.that is what i saw the homeless guy doing in my hood’s dump.

who are the poor?what is poverty?was my saviuor poor?

in my first post i mentioned a type of poverty. that of material lack.courtesy of Oscar, i have learned a bit more.even among the poor there are different social clusters of how well off one is.the ones who live in mud huts are more rich than the ones who live in card board house. there are other types of poverty though.

there exists spiritual poverty and relationship poverty.these two types of poverty are more deeply hurting, for one can have all the material possesion in the world and yet lose his soul.one can have all he material possessions in the world and not have anyone to share it with.Mother Theresa really pointed out to us the poverty in a relationship sense of those who seem to have their act together.

there are many causes/reasons of poverty including;cosmic,international,national,community,personal.these are chains that hold people captive.capitalisation may not just help.often times in Kenya people complain they don’t have capital to do a task.but even if given the resources and these other chains aren’t dealt with, the person will still be poor.

of these causes i’ll just talk of two.cosmic causes come about because we live in a fallen world.the only remedy is prayer, evangelism and the role of the church in society.interestingly enough, this is the same solution for personal chains of poverty-salvation.there occurs a social lift when someone gives their life to Christ eg the money that he/she could have used in drinking can be invested.

our response to the poor however is critical. God expects us to be generous, favour the poor, fight for their causes, show mercy…

there are many questions that come up though eg what about the risk of the poor depending on you, what about being conned…the one wisdom nugget to always take home; if you are to err, let it be to the side of kindness.

was jesus broke?doubt it.coz he was constantly in motion was jesus poor?which poverty; spiritually, materially, relationship wise…you decide.but i don’t think so.the one scripture that comes to mind is “he bacame por that we might be rich”talk about long term investment.

Fat and skinny people think

If you have been overweight all your life then you are not overweight. You are maintaining. Same thing if you are underweight. I have been “maintaining” my weight for the past 6 years until this year. i realized things have become different from the clothes I wear. When your shirt button line keeps shifting to the right when you are walking and you have to keep straightening your shirt to look neat then there is…your body.

I know a guy who often times entertains the Taye Diggs physic fantasy. Some of his statements when hanging out include;

“I’ll get ride of my two packs and get a six pack”

“I will lift all this mass up like Johnny Bravo”

One of my she-friends told me she is thinking of ways of adding meat.

Here is a random one; did Jesus exercise? I read a very beautiful article in response to this question that I want to share with you that you can tag your fat friends and skinny friends alike. I gather it’s not proper to call people as such-fat or skinny. My bad.
Before I share the article by Dr. Don Colbert,M.D. I’d want to say our view of Jesus say more about us than it does of Him. Some people think that Jesus was a guy with a six pack, fine kempt hair, well maintained beard, clean clothes….(this is the common portrait of Jesus in Christian art), others think he was a skinny guy, rugged, I actually read of how Christians in the early church believed Jesus to be a hunch back from the verse in Isaiah “that there was nothing in his physical appearance to attract us to Him”. Rarely do people think Jesus was a fatso. A chubby kid. These pictures of Him say more about us than about Jesus.

But did Jesus exercise?

Many Christians seem to believe that exercise is of very little value. They base their opinion, in part, on what the apostle Paul wrote to Timothy in 1Timothy4:8. However, biblical times were much different from today with regard to people’s need for “additional exercise”. When Jesus walked the earth, most people walked from five to twelve kilometer in the course of their daily lives and work.

Evangelist Arthur Blessitt once calculated that the total miles/kilometers that Jesus walked during the entire three years of His public ministry were 3,125miles. He added this mileage to the mileage from Egypt to Nazareth, as well as the miles Jesus walked from Galilee to Jerusalem, and he came up with a total of 21,595 miles that Jesus likey walked during his life.

In the case of exercise we need to do what Jesus did: get ample exercise daily. Don Colbert admonition;

The greatest admonition for exercise is this; start

The second greatest admonition is this; exercise regularly

And the third greatest admonition is this; keep exercising

i will find me a white girl

last night i saw the most memorable sight of.a jungu chick where i often times do supper.you might think this is not a big deal. or i need to travel more to see more white skin.let me fill you in first.

my eating joint has a maximum sitting capacity of 12 guys.yes it has only three tables, 4 seats and three benches.

it has no power supply, but the other day they hacked a power line so now there is a bulb that lights the place at night.

the place for paying and ordering is one step from the door.if you turn to your left, you will see white sacks stitched together to form a wall behind which the kitchen is situated.

the guy who takes your order is the same guy who bills it, cooks the other meals apart from chapati. there is another guy who brings water(coz there is no piped water) and does the dishes.he also entertains the visitors who have not yet been served.he does not bring orders.the one who makes chapati also makes the ugali.

i have endlessly tried to take my chick friends to this paradise of coastal dishes which is their flag meals to no avail. in fact, my joint re-branded the other day from coastal dishes to coastal hotel.i haven’t yet asked about accommodation details though.

so yesterday my jaw dropped when i saw this German lady with an African male company eating out here.i wanted to take photos but i was remembered how some white folks think black guys are monkeys and i put down my phone.

i however realized that a white girl knows how to play her position. she was actually serving the guy Kachumbari as it was served in one plate!!!no more Mr.Understanding.