PIKELELA GUTYUNGWA MEMOIRS

  The Empty Room! I always find it shocking and unbelievable that even though we live in a crowded universe, one can still find an empty room to steal away. The empty room is Heaven’s way to lead us back to God after everything else has failed. Occasionally, we tend to believe that being surrounded or finding ourselves in a crowd of people, all is well. Depending on others is our natural baby instinct we inherited from our mothers. The busy world evolving around gives us a false sense of security. I still do not understand why it takes a lifetime for a man to discover his true self. We would have been wiser and graduated right early in life if wisdom matured in tandem with puberty. But alas, wisdom like a baobab tree takes years to settle in the belly of the earth. The empty room. I have been walking down these rough trenches of life, searching, and hunting for who knows what. After all these decades of sweats and pain, I still long for a day wherein I could say: fi...

  God Is An African! What would you say if I told you that all life forms began on the continent of   Africa? Unbelievably, the Garden of Eden was strategically placed by God in the belly of Africa? What would you say if I told you that Adam was a Black African and not a White man as depicted by the Europeans? Common sense says to me, if Eve the first woman was created from the bone cells of Adam; she too, must be African! God Is An African. The Bible says everything, or life forms reproduce after their own kinds. Africa remains the pivotal point in the mind of the Almighty God. Hello. Even Biological Science agrees that a Black parents can produce a 100% White baby complete with 100% genes of both parents. It is extremely rare for a White parent to produce a 100% Black child. Medical History cannot even count to three where a Black baby was born out of a White parent. Therefore, I put   it to you that scientifically and medically   speaking, it is ...

  Did You Know? Did you know that it was Prophet Moses, the first human before Civilization; who revealed that God had founded our earth upon many waters? In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. It was not to be until hundreds of years later that Science agreed and confirmed what the Bible had already declared as an indispensable fact. Our tiny world is only 20% solid ground and anchored divinely by God upon 80% of ocean waters. I am here to tell you that it was God before time, it was God in the Beginning as it is still God today. God is the Ancient of days as described by Prophet Daniel. Hello. It will be God right to the end of time: the end of this world as we know it! Did you know that it was not Pythagoras and Aristotle who first discovered that the earth was round, but the Prophet Isaiah? It is he that...

  Do You Remember! Like a typical farmer my father was, the man simply and passionately dropped his seeds into the fertile garden and left everything else to nature. It is never the duty of the farmer to keep digging out the planted seed, checking if it has taken roots already. Remember, some things are better off when left completely in the care and embrace of nature! Now, it takes a little while for the ground to bond with the seed before any germination could take place. Nothing will happen until the very seed corrupts and dies before any signs of new offshoots can be seen. Hello. This was me in the making and germinating within my mother’s blessed womb. Like in the case of my father, my mother too; remained oblivious to the volcanic swelling developing until one fine morning. She woke up feeling nauseous and extremely dizzy. This was me officially putting my mother on notice… I am coming! From this point onwards, my mother knew she was no longer alone and had ...

  Emotional is Spiritual! Standing on this gigantic rock on top of the mountain, I find myself staring at the life below and above me. The blue skies above still reminding me that everything remains pristine as it was since I was born. If possible, I'd touch the sky and thank heavens for her stunning beauty. All kinds of birds soaring above my head saying to me, “We are here for your joy and happiness, seeing us fly is like watching the angels at play!” The cool breeze rising below my feet right up to my head, is soothing and magnanimously calming like the first summer rains. I believe life would be even better if God had intended for us to live and survive on mountain heights forever. What makes a man forsake his fellow men and permanently migrate to wilderness to live like a hermit with nature? Emotional is spiritual. Only if we could discover the real part of our being and makeup. Man is both spiritual and emotional. Sometimes our emotions expressed through our...

My Space: My Place! My precious life began inside a blob of mucous: like a tiny seed inside fertile ground. I became matter and occupied space right inside my mother’s womb. Every step my mother took with me after conception, became my step. If my dear mom coughed it became apparently hard to count that as one. I got officially recognized and my feet planted on the ground on the day I was delivered to these shores. Whether you get this or not, God punctured my space and my place in the atmosphere thus adding my name to the list of the living! Hello. You just can’t dismiss me and write off my name from the roll of the living. I am down here through the water, blood, and spirit. In case you didn’t know this, here’s from me free of charge. Open your ears and listen up well now. God breathed into my mother’s womb right in the second my father’s seed collided with the prized runaway egg. Stay with me now. Can you count? At this stage of my yet-to-be life; I am already spirit...