The Agony of Romancing during the Snail Mail Times

Categories Emotions, Human Nature, Lifestyle, Tales From My Fertile Mind

Way back during the times before internet, email and social media, a lot of ingenuity went into composing romantic letters and ensuring that they reached the intended recipient.

Despite not caring about the broken English and the many weeks, and sometimes months, that it took for the letter to reach the intended addressee, there was lots of thrill, and love, that was packaged in these letters, as exemplified here below:

“My dearest Abigail Mueni, sweetie,
with many love in my heart,
I pick my golden pen
from the basket of love
to write you this letter.

You are my first thought
in the morning
and I hold you
in my last breathe
as I go to sleep.
I hope this letter meet you
physically healthy,
spiritually receptivated,
and emotionally adaptivated.

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I’m Not An Angel, But I’m Trying My Best To Be A Good Person

Categories Meditation

When asked, “How are you?”
I say, “I am trying to be good”

I am trying to find spiritual satisfaction
In the midst of the hopelessness, loneliness, and unhappiness

I am trying to encourage and to serve
When all around me are illnesses, pain and anguish

I am trying to work hard and improve myself
Amid the drudgery, labor and

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The Power of Courtesy; the Power of Nice

Categories Emotions, Lifestyle

The world is beautiful…, truly beautiful, but it is drowning in the selfish preoccupations of humanity.

Take, for example, the customers who are lining up waiting to be served; some are outright rude and inconsiderate of the feelings of the staff behind the counter just because the line is long, others are grumbling, shrugging shoulders, and some blatantly staring at watches and tapping their feet. They forget thatthe staff behind the counter work long hours and have to do it with a constant smile on their faces.

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Receiving God’s Favor Is the Biblical Path to Prosperity

Categories Meditation, Religion

We have most likely sometimes wondered “how lucky” others always are and never ourselves. How,unlike us, they possess all those things that we consider a success; financial abundance, a great career, a great education, always profoundly happy even when they have so little, always being at the right place at the right time, and how they are in a great, blissful, relationship. Such thoughts can be depressing when we think that we are not as successful as others around us.

It might probably, however, be consoling to know that every person on earth has their own definition of success and prosperity. Some see success as having lots of money, for others it’s how powerful you are, for others prosperity is when they and their loved ones are healthy, for others it’s just being happy, and for others it is when their emotional needs are fulfilled.

Having said that, it may help to realize that where there is prosperity in all its presentations, it is more than just luck, it is something more divine ….. It is God’s favor. It is God shifting and arranging things in their favor. It is God fighting their battles, and making a way even where there seems no way. It is God moving the wrong people out and bringing the right people in. And that is why everything they touch becomes blessed. When they touch, God commands the blessing upon it, be it a person, thing or business.

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What is Love?

Categories Lifestyle

My dear friends of the interwebs

Today I feel inspired by love.

That love that made Emperor Shah Jahan of India to build the Taj Mahal, a monument that took twenty two years and twenty two thousand workers to build, as a memorial and resting place of his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal, who died during childbirth.

That love that made British Lord Maurice Egerton build, in ten years, a majestic castle in Nakuru, Kenya to impress the love of his life, an Austrian lady whom he had deeply loved for seven years and to whom he wished to become engaged. He built it after she refused to stay in his six-bedroomed house, saying it was too small for a person of royalty like her.

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The Colors Of “Love”

Categories Emotions

My dear friends of the interwebs,

Today I feel inspired by love. But I am at the same time jealous. Jealous because my mother tongue, Kikuyu, just like my two national languages, English and Kiswahili, have only one word for “love” in all it’s forms, colors and presentations. This is unlike the Greek language, which has eight different shades of “love”.

That love that made Emperor Shah Jahan of India to build the Taj Mahal, a monument that took twenty two years and twenty two thousand workers to build, as a memorial and resting place of his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal, who died during childbirth.

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