11/12/2025
Some people are so ruthless they do hurt you and even add pepper on the wound. Have you ever been betrayed by someone so close to you? Maybe abused by your parents, r***d by an uncle, robbed by a business partner, brother illegally converts your property, cheated by your fiancee, your assistant pastor walking away with your flock etc... it is not easy sometimes to overcome it.
There was this time I was living at Kiserian just immediately after clearing my university education. One evening when going home from Nairobi the matatu I was in broke down. Before we got to Kiserian and we were forced to alight and walk. Along the way we got a crowd of people and when I went to check what was happening we found out that a lady had been rapped by a mad man(mwenda wazimu). Those guys who walk around carrying heavy stuff in tattered clothes. It was so humiliating and the lady was in shock. Immediately we organized help and she was taken to hospital though she didn't want to, actually she had made decision to commit su***de but in the hospital she got psychosocial support.
About 4yrs latter we met in Rongai around former Turkys Supermarket and she recognized me(she marked my face because during the incident I mobilized the team to help her, encouraged her and got her into a good Samaritan car that took her to the hospital). She came and introduced herself. She was so happy and full of life holding a very lively and handsome boy. She said that after the r**e she realized she became pregnant and by the help of counsellors she decided not to abort it though it was a painful journey. You can imagine pregnancy from a mad man. She gave birth to a healthy bouncing baby boy who became a blessing and joy to the family. She was around 39yrs and had suffered two breakups because she couldn't get a baby but now miraculously in a funny way she got a baby. She had to later Accept, Adjust and Advance and is enjoying life. Though there was a scar, being divorced twice and then r***d by a madman, she chose to accept herself and now using the scars to encourage other people. Remember the story of Joseph in the bible being betrayed and sold by brothers? He later appreciated the fact that they did it for the dream to be fulfilled. It was for the good of many.
See, the situation you have been going through is not for you alone but for the benefit of many. You are work in Progress. Allow God to finish up with you and you'll appreciate the end up. Your enemies will soon be the ones sharing your story and testimony. They'll watch you on TV and news papers and share about how they knew you. Just Accept, Admit , Adjust and Advance. That fire you are going through is refining you and you must become that pure and precious gold you are meant to be. Persevere a little bit. Endure for a moment. It will not last forever. Your story is changing. Your song and status is changing.
The scars we incur along the path to our great destinies are the stories of our pursuits, evidence of overcoming odds, and not our life. It is our story. Your scars are battle wounds to remind you that you are an overcomer and an evidence to show to other people that they too can overcome. In any case, who do you want to go through that situation if not you? It is not by bad luck that you are in that situation and going through what you are in but divine purpose. In that pain lays your mandate, assignment and purpose and later you'll appreciate it. In those scars is your glory. Keep your hope alive! Keep pressing on! Soon it shall pass.
Ambassador Steve Mbugua
