“Life Lately.

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding…” Proverbs 3:5-6

 

As usual we begin this blog with the phrase Its been a minute🤣🤣🤣my aim is to write at least once a month but at times life happens. We get overwhelmed or other things that need our undivided attention crop up.

Sometimes, most times life doesn't go as we plan. So much is happening around us. And life is going on so fast that sometimes we don't have time to pause and process the happenings around us or even process our own emotions. Sadly we just keep moving. Overcoming the obstacles and jumping through the hurdles. 

So many of us are carrying heavy burdens in silence. A friend told me she knew things were so bad the day she went to Uhuru Park and just slept. May being the month of Mental Health, let's take time and take good care of ourselves.

The past few days I have learnt the importance of having a support system. A person or people you can count on for their support when you go through a crisis. These are people you know that will be there to hold your hands through a difficult season. Walk with you and help where it is needed. Sometimes its not even about the money its the presences that really counts just to see someone by your side to encourage you and assure you that this too will come to pass. Its a plus just to know that somewhere there is someone praying with & for you. I am reminded of the scripture. "Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ" Galatians 6:2.

Appreciate your support system because sometimes they help you when they too are going through their own personal problems. And every difficult season God will always raise people to stand with you.

Let me talk about Grief that comes from death. So far this year I know three friends who have buried their mothers. 😢😢😢So Sad. We had this conversation with a friend recently and it dawned on us that we are in the stage where we are burying our parents its a sad reality. 

I remember when we were young we saw death to be a bit far from us. It was mostly our grandparents or distant relatives but it was mostly old people. Our parents most times hid death from us or we were too young to process it. 

We were kids and our parents never took time to explain to us. Probably the funeral times was a day when we would meet up as kids and just play. And Death was viewed as a taboo.

I grew up with my paternal grandparents. And I was so close to my grandfather. I remember when he died my grandmother told me he had gone on a Safari(Trip). I guess she didn't know how to explain or simply how I would have handled it. I remember during the funeral my Aunt hid my face not to see the body being lowered to the grave.

But now I understand the grief that comes with death. I have experienced it. And its a reality am slowly learning to accept this the reality of death. For a long time I feared death even my own. I wondered how the last few minutes would be. Would it be painless. For now lets be there for each other because I always say that we will all pass through this reality no one is immune to death. And if money could buy life then there would be no death. They say death makes us equal. Recently the former Governor of Meru lost his daughter and in his tribute he admitted that he had everything but couldn't save his daughter's life. The doctors told him the words that no parent is ever prepared to hear: they were sorry but Anita Passed away. 

I cant help but think of the parents of Utumishi Girls Academy that was in the news following a tragic dormitory fire in May 2026 that resulted in fatalities and injuries among students. Every parent has a cross to carry. For one parent the daughter is in hospital another one is dead they are awaiting DNA & sadly another is being arraigned in court. And each student has a story to tell unfortunately some died without telling their story.

Therefore this season let's be kind to each other & Support one another. Because we are all trying to carry our crosses. Everybody has a story to tell.