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  Hello! Hello! It's been quite a while. I had to take a break after my wedding. I am back now and you will get reads often enough.  Now, today's read was a request by a close friend who's very passionate about men's vulnerability. She is working on something to tell men that it is okay to be vulnerable. She wanted me to share my experience, story and insight. I hope this helps a man somewhere. Let's get into it. If God created man from the soil and He did, He must have created the African man from the best of hard clay. He created him “strong and tough enough.” The unfortunate part about this kind of clay is, as it hardens, it cracks. The more it hardens, the bigger the cracks become. The best version of this kind of clay is when it is watered. It even becomes sticky – holds closer and tighter. Oh, how foreign this is for us men. Let us talk about men and vulnerability. Seriously, I am already feeling vulnerable putting men and vulnerability in the same sentence

Father’s Day is a great day to celebrate fatherhood. Unfortunately, for me, it’s not a day I have been celebrating for the longest time, maybe I will start soon. Today, I needed to share the story of why I do not celebrate it.   Buckle up because it’s gonna be a long read it might get a bit teary in here and I hope you learn and enjoy reading this – even if with tears. Today I woke up to lots of celebrations – lots of people posting their fathers on social media, paying tribute and honouring their fathers for how great they are or were and the great role they played in shaping them to the people they are today. It’s an incredible thing I have to say. I hope the fathers can see that and I cannot imagine how they feel. Now, because of peer pressure, I will also post two especially important men in my life; my father and brother but I will write more about the former. After all, this is Father’s Day. Now, I was born in a family of seven (a little background about myself for especial

 I have been thinking about the last post on trust; that there are a few things I could add that make it complete. Things like, so when I am hurt, disappointed, frustrated or betrayed what can I do to heal. As usual, I am not writing to give you answers but provoke you to think about it and if you find some here, great. To begin with, if you examine the title of this post; you will wonder how scars and wounds are on the same line with the goodness of God. A lot of people struggle with understanding how God can be good and loving yet there is so much evil in the world. That will not be my focus, but I will definitely touch on that. I love sharing my experiences and I wanna share about one I had this morning. After doing my devotion today, I wanted to pray and as usual, I put on some good song to just make sure my mind is aligned to that mood of prayer. On my playlist, I came across Nichole Nordeman’s song “You are good” and listening to it, somehow something shifted in me. I stopped t

I would like to write today about trust. Now, this can be a very sensitive area because many have wounds that haven’t healed and maybe this gets the wounds fresh. But you know what? Most times, wounds have to be cleaned up to heal well and that process is not so enjoyable but is worth it. Let us begin with defining what trust is (Please do not feel like you are seated in a lecture hall😂😂) The oxford dictionary defines trust as the firm belief in the reliability, truth, or ability of someone or something. I love Merriam Webster, it adds character into the definition; assured reliance on the character, ability, strength, or truth of someone or something. Look at these definitions. Trust is a strong thing. No wonder relationships cannot stand without it. Now, bringing relationships into the picture gives us a good beginning – of course knowing that the fabric of a relationship is in trust. You remove trust and there’s no relationship. If there is, it’s definitely either very superfi

I am back so quickly...I think that is a great thing. In my last post, I ended with sharing what is going on in my life - that I am leaving work soon and I am scared about it because I do not know what is next for me. Now, a lot of people, and especially the readers that know me, were asking why. Well…   Permission to have some little fun 🕺. Let us get into their heads for a little bit 🙈🙈 . I think I know what they are thinking, “this guy has a great stable job, earns some good money, has a good life and he wants to quit his job?” “Is he out of his mind?” I can almost tell that some even want to call or text and be like, " come on Andrew...this is a terrible move." “And with the whole Covid-19 thing?” “Do you have a plan?” Alright, look people I have already thought about all that. And I thought maybe, this is a chance to complete or do I say build on the previous post? So, let us get out of people's minds now. Let us talk. There are times that in the middle of

Good people!! Whooosaaaap!   So, today I want to talk about something that I am convinced a lot of you are going through or have gone through it at some point.  Especially the young generation, like me. This is something I am going through now and have gone through lots of times in the past.   But first, let us do a quick rick up and then build upon it. In my last post, I wrote about being grateful for where we are and what we have. Living in the here and now in contentment and thankfulness. This post is sort of closely related to that and maybe a buildup. So, let us get right into it…….   Have you ever sat down and thought, "men, what am I doing with my life?” … “I need something better to do.” … “I am longing for something significant.” ... “What does tomorrow hold for me?” … “What will it be like tomorrow?” “I have waited too long to have a job.” … “Will I ever have a job?” … “Do I even know where I am going?” …that lostness (if there is a word like that) that anxiety, th

Whoa!!!! I just used a "Uhuru" word right there. I mean, I know it's an English word - of course, unstandard. President Kenyatta uses it a lot...irregardless; someone say hi to the president. Alright, peeps, that's beside the point. I wanna talk about something else - something like, we can still be grateful even now. Who isn't scared by how uncertain everything is? How you have no idea how tomorrow will look like, whether you will be healthy or not or even alive. Now, that's really scary. It feels like the entire globe is on some sort of break; things are not moving, it's not business as usual. Well, it's such a time that I would like to remind us about being grateful. Of course, it doesn't make sense. Hey, aah, I know that already. Just hear me out.  Sometimes, I get these urges to just kneel down and pray and many of those times I don't even know what I should pray about. So, today, sometimes happened and as I knelt down, I started thanking

Whoosap people....... If you read my blog's description, then you understand that God forms all of me, not a better part of me. My perspective of life has greatly been shaped by Him. Well, now that you understand that, let's dive just a bit into the Christian world, on something that worries me.  And in case you are not a Christian and you are asking how this will build you, maybe it won't ( for most of you, it will) but it will open your eyes to something interesting. The world is evolving. It's changing at a very rapid speed. But in my observation, the Christian world never really changes. Look closely, and you will see trends as old as Jesus' time and far before. We still have the Pharisees and the Jesuses even today. We still have the Saul's that cling to the anointing and forget the giver of the anointing, and right there we have the David's that are after God's own heart - they know that the anointing is on them and they don't have to chase it.

Hellooo.....it's been quite a while since I wrote so I thought maybe, I can revive some old dreams of being a writer. The first purpose of this blog was to write about education in Kilifi county but now I realize that my sphere of influence is bigger than a county. It's the whole globe now. And in terms of the subject...let's traverse. Talk of growth! Now, I decided not to delete the previous old posts, they definitely will remind me of where I have come from and well, I still am passionate about education.  Soo....the change or if you would like to call it growth, gets me now to write about all the things in my list of interests: entrepreneurship, management, family & fatherhood, youth empowerment, God's design for humanity & creation, love, nature, championing for Africans and Africa. All of this founded on truth and honesty and with the end goal of building people - influencing and changing perspectives that in the end result to people becoming the best versi