PIKELELA GUTYUNGWA MEMOIRS

The Heavenly Pattern! The Children of Israel.  After spending about four hundred and thirty years in Egypt: they still had to go through many repressive years under Pagans oppressive rule and blood-drenching slavery!  After rebelling against God, Israel had to spend another seventy years in Babylon during the same time the first Temple was destroyed. The Pagan Romans rule over Israel lasted for four-hundred years and followed by Christian’s Rome and Constantinople reign over three-hundred years.  The bitterness of remaining and treated as underdogs left this gull of hatred for Israel’s enemies which stretched over the years for all Jewish people. As if that was not enough suffering for the Jews: the Ottoman Empire took over from the Romans and ruled over Jerusalem for another period of four-hundred and one years: from 1516 to 1917.  In total, Jerusalem had been oppressed and lived under slavery occupation for well over one thousand years: incredible but true! It is s...

  From Me To Me! What a day this was. When my mother was due with me, every close member of the family was put on notice. All my four sisters lined up in a circle of love around my mother’s bed. This was the  greatest day of my life. After all, it took my chariot of fire the blitz speed of 2 million km per hour over nine months for me to touch down on these shores. After countless painful screams and exhausting pushes from my mother... I was set to go! Once out.  I violently shook my head and struggled to breathe and coughed out loud. I must admit.  It was not easy to disembark from my celestial chariot and not to mention all the break-down force needed for my safe landing.  I cried with terrified fear because I couldn’t figure out exactly where I had landed. For a while I thought all of my life was wrapped up in my soft baby skin ...  Hey.  Don’t forget I am the only baby in this house.  Poor me.  Nobody whispered sense into my soft ears t...

  Got A Minute? Ring... ringing, ringing... ring! I have been holding for two minutes straight for the  guy on the other side to answer my call. He knows that I know he’s just staring at my name. I know he will finally answer once his proud heart lets him. What do you want? If it’s money you’re looking for.... I don’t have it. I am a busy man. I was expecting an important executive call any seconds before you butted in! Hello Rufus.  Got a minute? Crickets. The guy has just hung up on me without  even giving me a minute to explain the reason for my call. People will always be people. Nothing can be done to save some from their mean spirited uncouth attitude. Now. From the moral world in which I was raised... everyone deserves  to be treated and handled with some iota of respect. This has nothing to do with your social status or the number of digits in your bank balance. Got a minute? Rufus, like many of his ills, has actually buried me alive. This dingily failed...

  City Swindlers Here they come.  And before you know it, one or more pieces of your valuables have been snatched from you. In a group of four plus thugs, there’s always one who will give you the widest smile. While you struggle with this bizarre fake smile.. The other criminals using both directions, will intentionally bump you... while the smiling devil helps themselves with whatever they can snatch from your beg. In just zapping seconds the same thief has handed over the stolen items to their passing conspirators.  Quickly, like skilled soccer players your missing item  has been passed to more than two criminals.  Did you even notice how they played you? When walking in the public spaces, don’t be too kind and too trusting.  Always keep a safe space from strangers who walk too close to you. Taking a few steps back whenever some pickpocketers  pretend to be lost and seeking directions. Tell them to their face to buzz off. Sorry I don’t have time to l...

  What If... While walking alone inside the busy mall... my mind began asking me questions I had no answers for. It is one thing to be put under heavy scrutiny by your mind and completely another... when suddenly, the other members of the body join in. After walking up and down these planes of life for so many years... I still lack the necessary intelligence which comes with using the turf. They say that life is a give and take situation but the same life unashamedly standby and watches on as I fumble to forge the way forward. Scratching my head... yielded no pleasure or relief. What If... One can’t even identify the right action to take. Yes I know, it’s a give and take but... When and what am I supposed to know I must give no matter what even if it means a dead-end for me? What If.... these same moments were booby-trapped by time and set up for my inevitable utter failure. I remember the years gone by when I was just a naive boy. Oh God, how I wish to live in that lost world of m...

  For You... What is God’s day like and just how does He go about each time?  Does God keep a to-do list like humans down below? If you asked me these questions. I wouldn’t be able to answer them.  Why? Because I am no expert on God and frankly speaking... nobody holds any monopoly  on God! I love you!  I whispered these tender words to her across the counter.  It was very classical to watch her careening and almost losing her balance.. Her beautiful face lit up as she gave me the most beautiful smile I have ever seen... mumbling some dizzy words. Even though I uttered these words with good intentions and no malaise hidden in my heart...  I had just witnessed the power of words in real time. Caring for someone isn’t as good as vocalizing it to their ears.  Everybody needs to know they are loved and thought of in a special way. Stay with me now... To be prophesied on in the midst of hundreds of fellow worshippers... is a miracle from Above. Right? ...

  If Tik Tok Were A Drug After spending another receipt-less day yesterday. Receipt-less? Seriously speaking! If God were to demand I give account of how I spent my twelve hour day...  Guilty as charged! Gracious Lord.  Please have mercy upon my poor soul.  It is hard to keep track of 86400 seconds of my life each passing day. Impossible even for guard dogs to stay awake and keep them peeled all night without dozing off. What can poor Pikelela do when faced with so many challenges all round? Last night as usual. I dragged my legs up the bed... another  playback to reclaim all my lost minutes. Wouldn’t it be easier if our lives were just a whistle and a wink away to whichever direction? If Tik Tok were a drug...  This world will be filled with happy and smiling faces everywhere. Tears. What tears? I have not seen sad tears in a decade. People are happy... they hug each other to Paradise! Feeling sort off: my friend?  Why would you be sad when you are su...

  The Message  The message is everything in anything for everybody who bears the same address for which the message is intended. The message seeks to establish the point of contact based on the context in which it was written ... between the messenger and the recipient. Most of the time, the messenger is limited to delivering the message without the authority to interpret the meaning thereof. It is commonly believed that the recipient of the message will find it easy and palatable to decode by virtue of their foreknowledge of the source. The mood expressed within the message always determines or presumes the unpredictable emotional responses from the addressee. The mood of the message is the urgency triggered by the seal on the letter. Hello. Every letter has the original date and the date of expiration.  The authority behind the message dictates the relevant response anticipated by the sender. Hey Sydney, what in God‘s world are you talking about? Damn. Look at me now. H...