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El-Roi – The God who sees

El-Roi is one of my favourite names of God, if not my favourite.

It is a name given to God by Hagar, the mother of Ishmael. The account is recorded in Genesis 16. Sarah and Abraham and growing old and restless. God seems not to be aware that time is running out on His promise to make them father and mother of nations. So Sarah comes up with he idea that maybe God meant to give them children through another, and her another is Hagar who is her handmaid. Abraham, reminds me of Adam in the garden, goes along with Sarah’s suggestion and sleeps with Hagar.

August 1, 2020 1 comment

Christian

He has no advisor

written by Wanjiku J. Mwangi

I always get amused at my continuous unending tendency to fill in for the unadvertised, unavailable position of Chief Advisor to God. I am sure I am not alone in this.

I have ideas you know.
Ideas on how God should and maybe could answer my prayers
Ideas on the timelines God should work with
Ideas on where God should concentrate His efforts at any given point in time
Ideas on how God should be upholding the very world He created
Ideas on how to deal with calamities, disease and illnesses
Ideas on how to bring about justice swiftly
And the list could go on and on

July 31, 2020 0 comment

Christian Mother

Let the Little Children Come To Me

written by Wanjiku J. Mwangi

Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples rebuked the people, but Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.” And he laid his hands on them and went away. (Matthew 19:13-15)

Jesus loves the little children,
all the children of the world,
red and yellow black and white,
they are precious in His eyes,
Jesus loves the little children of the world.

These lyrics of this song Kikuyu, my mother tongue, were taught to me when I was under 5 years. I have a feeling that the disciples of Jesus did not get anyone to teach them this song in Aramaic or Greek, otherwise they would not have so vehemently denied little children to see the Lord Jesus.

In the Gospel according to St. Matthew we are told that some adults (I assume it must have been mothers) brought children to Jesus for two specific reasons:
1. That He (Jesus) might lay hands on the children
2. That He (Jesus) might pray for them

July 31, 2020 0 comment

Christian Friend

Spiritual Formation – Discovery

written by Wanjiku J. Mwangi

What comes to you mind when you hear the term ‘Spiritual Formation’?

What image is formed in your mind?

For many people ‘Spiritual Formation’ is a ‘step program’ that they undertook when they believed in the Lord Jesus and made the same confession with their mouths. It is an event not a continuous process. This is tragic to say the least.

June 26, 2020 0 comment

Friend

He gives seed to the sower

written by Wanjiku J. Mwangi

^{. . .}Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed . . .
(1 Corinthians 9:10/Isaiah 55:10)

If you ever attended Lightie then you must know this entire Scripture by heart – 1 Corinthians 9:6-11. When I attended church there it was one of those we recited during the giving time. I have loads of precious memories of Lightie so many. And they all came flooding back late last week thanks to my Mother quoting that part of the text up there.

So on Friday (5th June 2020) last week, my mum sent me one of her notorious cryptic messages. Her messages are almost always cryptic. They are so short form, short form has nothing on her. The words have no vowels, the consonants are usually merged together like a forced relationship. In most cases she will write a three line sentence to communicate fifty things and you are expected to decipher and action immediately. This particular message was true to her style and I had just one look at it and growled, why can’t she just write full words! I tried to decipher it and was getting mixed up and not understanding most of it. There was however one part of it that was very clear, I was to send some amount of money to a certain Child of God. I was busy trying to beat a deadline on something so I put that message in the ‘to do list’ at the back of my head.

June 10, 2020 0 comment

Daughter Friend Mother

I am the fulfillment of their wildest dreams

written by Wanjiku J. Mwangi

I am the fulfillment of their wildest dreams
My Grandmother
My Mother
My Aunties
My Godmother
My Sisters
My Daughters
My Son

June 7, 2020 0 comment

Beloved

Dance With My Beloved

written by Wanjiku J. Mwangi

He extends His Hands towards me
He draws me to Himself
I am infused into Him
I am Birthed in Him and from Him
Let loose still held by Him
Dancing with Him
Embraced by Him
One with Him

June 4, 2020 0 comment

Friend

Not yet free

written by Wanjiku J. Mwangi

I was running
Running for my life
When I crossed the border I felt safe
But that safety was momentarily lived
Because soon enough fear began to engulf me
Fear that even here, I would be followed and dragged back into slavery
So I began to search for a clutch to hold onto, a shield to protect me
I clung onto the first one that I saw, holding on with dear life
I never felt the spikes that were cutting through my flesh the closer I clung to my new found clutch
The closer the shield pressed onto my wounded body
I was enveloped in the fear of the past showing up at my doorstep
But while my mind grew numb, my body took the battering on our behalf
Soon enough my mind could no longer be numb to the fact that our new found saviour was nothing
But the living breathing mirror image of our past

May 19, 2020 0 comment

Daughter Friend Mother

Walking Questionnaire

written by Wanjiku J. Mwangi

I love asking questions. I ask a lot of questions. In one of my former work places one of the older employees (who has since died may she rest in peace) got tired of my questions and one day in frustration, raise voice and hands in surrender she told me:

Joyce, you are a walking questionnaire!

As you can imagine, I stopped asking questions unless it was absolutely necessary. Through this experience and many like it, I learnt early on two critical things about my questions:

There are spaces where you should not ask questions.
There are people who should not ask questions.

These two realities are a double tragedy because one of those spaces was at home and one of those people was my parents. The second space was school and the people not to be asked questions was teachers. And the third space was work and the people not to be asked questions was virtually everyone from bosses to the gatemen!

April 29, 2020 0 comment

Mother

6:4:2

written by Wanjiku J. Mwangi

By the grace of God today, I am officially a mother of a 6 year old, a 4 year old and a 2 year old; living children

If you know even a tad bit about my story . . . this is nothing short of a miracle!

I am grateful for the gift of these children that God gave me, O ŭgŭo tŭhŭ (freely given)

That being said, the reality is parenting is haaaaard. I have cried, I have silently auctioned these gifts to the highest bidder (never got any though), I have felt like a total failure! I have questioned my capacity to raise up a child let alone three. I have been exhausted, had sleepless nights, had everlasting days and nights. But God has been faithful through it all. He has carried us through.

I look at these children and remind myself, by God’s grace, I am a good mother. I am doing well.

April 27, 2020 0 comment

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