Small Things Are Great

Ile season ya kukumbusha teenagers waoge imefika.🚿 (Yes, dear guardians—brace yourselves. The ‘Bathe-or-Perish’ season has landed.) I never used to get it—why Mum would walk in from work, bypass everyone, and go straight to fling open the windows like she’s chasing out demons. Then she’d leave the door open too, like she was giving " something " a chance to escape. 🏃 Kumbe kumbe, tulikua tunanuka. Not just ordinary nuktance— the kind that shifts atmospheres. That room had presence, my friends. Not Holy Spirit kind of presence. This one was... holy stench that can only be detected by adults. Sisi hatukua na house help BTW. You see, she was raising a small army—four boys, born back-to-back like a bad election cycle. My three elder brothers were born in consecutive years. Then came me, the lastborn, with a one-year breather. So yes, we hit teenagehood like a synchronized team—sweaty, smelly, and stubborn. Hapa ata mzazi anaanza kushuku if any of her children are born-again. W...

I'm thinking of something—let me know what you think. There are three men in the Bible who, let's just say, had a very unusual relationship with death. They didn’t exactly go the way of the grave like the rest of us expect to. You know them: Enoch, Elijah, and Yeshua . And when you think about it, these three aren’t just cool stories; they’re blueprints for how we ought to live. First, we have Enoch , whose name means dedicated  or consecrated . Genesis 5:24 drops a simple but profound truth: “Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.” No chariots of fire, no dramatic goodbyes—just a man who walked so closely with God that one day, God must have said, “ You know what, just come home with Me .” If that’s not life goals, I don’t know what is! Enoch shows us that a life fully dedicated to God makes death an afterthought. Then there's Elijah , the fiery prophet whose name means Yahweh is God.  You remember his exit—chariots of fire, whirlwind, the full cinematic ...