THE UNFAZED WILL

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We owe every strand of our muscle and flesh to God. We oftentimes sweep tragedies underneath and taking adversity as just a rite of passage, sometimes things we experience are the proverbial “last straw that would break the camel’s back”. When you feel the burden, the toil, the pressure, and the heartbeat increasing alarmingly, and the ground beneath curving in-you’re running the risk of going soft in the head. It’s that time when you question the purpose of life, why you exist, why things happen or misshapen while for others’ seems perennially on the fast lane, working perfectly- like the smile of God. Many things by then are funny when they aren’t happening to you.

The world order shifts abruptly when we least expect. Colleagues, friends and even family could at times be belligerent and arrogant. Adversaries could plan day and night to take you down with infatuated hate, business deals go sour, life’s ineptitude could tilt the scales on how you live, your targets could be missed, you could be a victim of an abusive affair, a botched marriage, a failed exam- name it! That fresh moment in melancholy when you see that life’s purpose is no longer useful and its objectives are nauseatingly reversed. Courtesy of all the ups and downs, whether you are a pauper, a professor, a business mogul, atheist, royalty or anything. The experience not only leaves a bad taste in the mouth but churns stomachs, too. When your stratagem has failed, you cannot allow the sepulchral mud of the dead to besmirch the spectacular mind of the living.

It is through the intricate personal experiences I noticed life doesn’t always give what we want. But it is only how we handle our moment of pressure that begets that one biggest break. The best thing God gifted us is the will. I read certain book I stumbled upon mysteriously called The Science of Getting Rich. Wallace D. Wattles postulates that when you want to get something, you only need to use your will power upon yourself. That, you do not have to use your will to conquer an unfriendly deity or to make stubborn and rebellious forces to do your bidding like breaking a glass when you are angry. The more steady and continuous your faith and purpose, the more rapidly you will prosper because you will make only positive impressions upon substance, and you will neutralize or offset them by negative impressions. For instance, if I wanted to deal away with poverty I don’t have to get pictures of poverty into my mind but pictures of wealth, abundance and possibility into the minds of the poor.

I go through a lot daily in my growth and at times when the hill is no longer ascendable, or a spate of anger rushes through my nervous system, I take a few moments even in oblivion and whisper something to God. After that prayer comes a certain inner strength, and renewed hope- that it’s gonna be alright, that everything will work out, it always does unless we lose the will. The complex melodramacy of life’s intrigues could at times overwhelm to the point I question God, or, ask myself what if there was no God? How would I have gotten through that desperate moment?

My fellow soldiers in the struggle, let’s not lose our willpower, because it’s always darker before dawn. I wish you good tidings in your life’s endevours. Alluta Continua…

Prayer for the Nation

Let us pray,

Dear Lord, as we mourn the departed leaders and rejoice at the onset of the dry season, I pray for your guidance and wisdom.

I bring before thee politicians who are known for their wickedness to stop their sinning ways and seek your redemption.

 What I have in mind are not small cheats who falsify mileage claims, but those who routinely gang up foreigners to plunder this land.

There are scandals as tall as Mt. Kenya, the holy shrine on which you dwelt before we cut down the trees, and many more are still being hatched in white-washed board-rooms.

In this regard I pray that, as we approach next year’s General Election, you will give them wisdom to understand that they don’t understand your son’s gift- the sort that helped him multiply loaves, fish and wine.

So when our politicians want to multiply paper money, and distribute it in sacks, may you curse them and unleash on them the curse of devalued currency that will haunt them and their children after them.

There are those who tell lies every day, and if their spouses are to be believed, even lie in their sleep. For such characters, may the deceit lure of sleep deliver them closer to the fireside till their bellies touch the flames.

Lord, there are many things that have gone wrong in this land, but there are equally many things that are going right.

You have revealed unto us, for instance, that it is wrong to fight over fruit. So when politicians brought oranges and bananas, people devoured them and smiled. But there are many others still fighting over water and pasture.

Some do it to provoke others, like in the Tana Delta, but then there are those in genuine thirst of you. For you say in your holy book that you are the fountain of the water of knowledge.

Dear lord, let that knowledge trickle down to us, that we may know you and learn to value fellow human beings, who you created in your own image.

There are those who say we deserve the leadership that we elect. But i also know that many have ascended to power through deceit, by pretending by pretending to deliver the children from the wilderness to the Promised Land.

Many others come and display their distended bellies, but fail to reveal the source of their wellness- if one can call it so- for their bellies are stuffed with public funds.

When the election period comes, Lord, help us separate the wheat from the chaff, and get to see through the aspirants lies.

And when electing new leaders, make them understand that driving those monsters that guzzle oil like the air we breathe will not drive our problems away.

My heart is heavy with grief when I think of the hardships I have seen in our midst, as widows and orphans struggle to make ends meet.

We used to think that once the struggle for freedom ended, no Kenyan would suffer from want. But the multitudes of children in the streets, and those who suffer cruelty in the privacy of their homes, are too many for our comfort.

But you also teach us to remember to count our blessings. We are blessed to have our country, with all its imperfections.

About those people who risk life and limb to protect your children, may you embolden them even more. And give them extra valour to pluck from their midst the oil-sniffing policeman.

We used to think only street boys had an appetite for ngata, but now we know that fully grown, uniformed officers also do. They like a bit of petrol on the nose.

For, we pray this trusting in your holy name.

EMPTY TALK -The Unwritten speech

Ladies and gentlemen, and other people, hata mimi najivunia kuwa mkenya. Poor men, women and children, women and children who are dying from hunger and starvation and a myriad other diseases, I am proud to be a Kenyan because our Government of National Dis-Unity has made very many things possible.

I know you are not proud to be Kenyans. If I were in your shoes, I wouldn’t either.

Who, tell me, would be proud to be a citizen of a country where there are 40 billionaires and 40, 000, 000 beggars exclusive of numerous unborn and aborted children thrown in? Who would be proud to be and who are handicapped when it comes to running public institutions?

But thanks to you, I am proud to be a Kenyan you have to work to make this a Working Nation.

But just because you work doesn’t mean you can enjoy the fruits of your labour. Such fruits are for the chosen few and yours disappear between 30% taxation and the stratosphere, now that we have to get tax from every nook and cranny, including shanties and roadside vendors. I trust you catch my drift.

But you can always look on the bright side. My government has given you very many freebies. Free education, free tuberculosis and malaria drugs, and free poverty, meaning you are free to be poor without any assistance from my Government, which is dishing out poverty tokens. This is why our GDP (Gross Domestic Poverty) stands at 5%, a figure never before experienced in the 49-year history of this Great Nation.

Other freebies are the anti-retroviral drugs for people living with HIV/AIDS which my vice president once said huenda sambambana umasikini (goes hand in hand with poverty).

As for ARVs, you will have to cover long distances to reach the farthest Government hospitals and clinics to receive them. What is wrong with walking a mere 100 km on an empty stomach? To localize a Chinese saying, the journey of 100 km, to your suffering and painful death, starts with a single step- on an empty stomach. Take that step while the privileged are driven around in convoys of expensive fuel-guzzlers bought with your taxes.

Some wayward doctors talk about ART, as in Anti-Retroviral Therapy, meaning thast you need to eat well besides taking your medicine to prevent opportunistic infections, but that is their problem. My Government has gone past the T to the V, yaani ART to ARV. We are following the alphabet.

As you are aware, my government is trying to weed out corruption and we are getting to the point where corruption is not the weed, but the main crop because of its popularity.

Members of parliament are corrupt, as are civil servants…the whole caboodle. Why should we Waste time fighting the culture that drives our economy? Let it stay for the benefit of those who earn six figure salaries for fighting it.

Hapless Kenyans, it is during my error that a media house was raided by forces that I do not even know. Another was stormed by someone, all of you know, but I am not naming names. Everything was carried out in the interest of State security, as my capable minister told you. Whenever state security is threatened even from across our porous borders, he will raid a media house.

As for those Kenyans from Dukana in Marsabit who cannot walk to Kenyatta National Hospital, we will fry them for free provided they have been maimed by bandits from a neighboring country.

Some of them will die without flying and how they know our benevolence if we do not let them get maimed and killed? You will bear with me because the police are engaged in more important duties arresting cigarette smokers while the armed forces have to prepare for national day parades.

Starving Kenyans, there are numerous gains and we need more time to tell you about them. The biggest gain so far has been an influx of foreign dogs and investors whose countries of origin not even my minister in charge of immigration knows. To show how serious they were, the investors targeted the most gullible Kenyans and threw a party before, during and after an award ceremony in which winners were picked by toddlers and kindergarten children.

But their party was different from the kind of parties my ministers form every hour. Due to the increased democratic space, each one of them is free to form his or her own party and I am free to be a member of all, such so that I do not know which party I belong to. But that is a state secret and ours is a multi-party state. Anyway, never give away state secrets.

With those few remarks, poor Kenyans, you are now free to go and jienjoy. After all, hata mimi najivunia kuwa Mkenya.

The Six Enemies of Greatness (and Happiness)

Courtesy Forbes Magazine

The Six Enemies of Greatness (and Happiness)
These six factors can erode the grandest of plans and the noblest of intentions. They can turn visionaries into paper-pushers and wide-eyed dreamers into shivering, weeping balls of regret. Beware!

 1) Availability

We often settle for what’s available, and what’s available isn’t always great. “Because it was there,” is an okay reason to climb a mountain, but not a very good reason to take a job or a free sample at the supermarket.

 2) Ignorance

If we don’t know how to make something great, we simply won’t. If we don’t know that greatness is possible, we won’t bother attempting it. All too often, we literally do not know any better than good enough.

 3) Committees

Nothing destroys a good idea faster than a mandatory consensus. The lowest common denominator is never a high standard.

 4) Comfort

Why pursue greatness when you’ve already got 324 channels and a recliner? Pass the dip and forget about your grand designs.

5) Momentum

If you’ve been doing what you’re doing for years and it’s not-so-great, you are in a rut. Many people refer to these ruts as careers.

6) Passivity

There’s a difference between being agreeable and agreeing to everything. Trust the little internal voice that tells you, “this is a bad idea.”

Dear Comrades,

After a long, deliberate and consultative spell of time I have searched my conscience and let the past be gone. We must take the bull by its horns and face the reality that we all need each other for the sake of tranquility and peace to prevail. The election has been hotly contested and the winners triumph by a meager 57 votes shows how it was too close to call.

Albeit, despite irregularities, happenings and mishappenings there is the need for continuity and peace – a prerequisite to the smooth flow of the exam period. There is also the need to address pertinent issues affecting the students that will never be solved through bickering, back stabbing, hell bending and blood shade.

Stars don’t struggle to shine, rivers don’t struggle to flow and we will also not struggle to excel in life- but we must struggle to ensure that the dignity of Chepkoilel students is brought back by ensuring the leaders we elect perform according to our expectations. Our dreams as a campus will never die, neither will our plans for changes fail- our destiny will NEVER be aborted. We must stay alert with the militant righteousness and bring every incapacity to book.

To my worthy supporters- to lose one battle is a preparation to wining many battles ahead. Even a child stumbles before he manages to stand and walk straight, we are still strong and God is always on our side. Don’t give up, have that strong will and courage to move on because we are winners no matter what. It’s hard for an empty sack to stand upright, let’s all heed this clarion for peace, togetherness and brotherliness. Maintain that wisdom to lead by example, even under provocation, because I know had we not held to these ideals the outcome would be unimaginable. We should do all to avoid the ugly orgy of violence that erupted in our country in 2007.

For my opponents, please let’s embrace each other and work together for the betterment of Chepkoilel. No competition is worth its salt without an opponent. Let’s forget the past, heal the wounds and move on. We have a future to take care of.

Alluta Continua.

Love and Blessings…

Yours Sincerely,

Benard Limo.

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Thursday, 22 April 2010 at 01:33 ·

The path through life is often a bumpy one. There are few who have made it without a lot of mistakes and bad decision making. And while, its optimal to keep yourself out of trouble—its honorable to face your bad decision making, mitigate your damages and turn it around. Too often we see bad circumstances or bad decision-making as a death sentence that crushes our goals and motivation. We use our misfortune as an excuse and a life-time reason to gripe about what we don’t have and what we cant get.
There are too many ppl that become tangled with the system who are never able to regain their lives and lose all hope and vision. They allow their past to define them.If any, you should represent the best of the human spirit. No one gets through life unscathed and its such a joy to see someone face their obstacles and not only overcome them, but excel and become a positive example for others. The past is not a badge of honor, but overcoming it is. I am willing to overcome mine, are you?

My favourite Qoutes from Osama bin Laden

1.“And he moved the tyranny and suppression of freedom to his own country, and they called it the Patriot Act under the disguise of fighting terrorism
2.“Bush the father did well in placing his sons as governors and did not forget to pass on the expertise in fraud from the leaders of the region to Florida to use it in critical moments.”
3.“We love death. The US loves life. That is the difference between us two.”
4.“We treat them in the same way. Those who kill our women and innocent, we kill their women and innocent, until they refrain.”
5.“I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don't want to die humiliated or deceived.”
6.“The dream to kill me will never be completed,”
7.“I heard about the bombings the same way everyone else heard about them, from the television or radio. I did not order them but was very glad for what happened to the Americans there.”
8. “It appeared to him that a little girl's talk about her goat and its butting was more important than the planes and their butting of the skyscrapers.”
9.“I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans.”
10.“Victory and glory or misery and humiliation.”