Thuita J. Maina's Blog: Reflections of a Christian, page 40
August 1, 2020
Skills I Never Acquired
Some of my earliest memories are seeing my senior brothers play with small toy cars on the compound of our home. Theirs weren't the sophisticated...
July 27, 2020
Cultivating Inner Peace
When I was in my second year at the university in JKUAT in 2008, I used to spend a lot of time alone. I enjoyed roaming in the university's...
July 22, 2020
Delight in Simple Things
It is a tale I have told again and again on this blog, but one which I seem never to tire of reflecting and narrating it in fresh words. And...
July 17, 2020
The Christian Life
As I wrote in my previous story on this blog, I used to religiously attend church at All Saints' Cathedral in Nairobi when I was at the university...
July 12, 2020
The Church Where I Belong
Sometimes when I listen to hymns on my laptop, I find myself waxing nostalgic on the times I used to worship at All Saints' Cathedral in Nairobi....
July 7, 2020
Wearing Decent, Clean Shoes
There was an evening in 2013 when I went for a leisurely walk to my hometown of Kiserian. I was clad in old, black leather shoes that hadn't been...
July 2, 2020
A Lass I Once Admired
For some students, universities are places of expanding intellectual bandwidth and trying out new ideas. For others, they are places of finding a...
June 27, 2020
Another Opportunity I Wasted
Back in 2005 when I was in my final year in high school at Starehe Boys' Centre, I developed a burning desire to learn computer-programming. I...
June 21, 2020
Appreciating Fathers
The great American president Abraham Lincoln once said, "All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother." As for me, if I ever become...
June 13, 2020
Loving People
She is a widow, her husband having passed away for reasons I have never cared to find out. Those who know her in my home area call her Mama...
