PIKELELA GUTYUNGWA MEMOIRS

  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...

Fantasy! Fantasy is like dreaming with your eyes wide open and 100% fully aware of your immediate surroundings. You notice everyone, but don't truly see them. You hear all these voices like the four winds all going at once in four directions. Hey, why does it feel like I am standing stuck in the middle of the crossroads? Why are all these people ignoring my presence as if I were invisible like a ghostly figure? Wow! Clouds are flying lower than usual today, I can even touch them with my hand! What a day—I want to ride the clouds. Fantasy is the only thing left next to reality when all hope is gone. This is my one last spare parachute to break my fall when my castle in the sky comes crashing down! Oh kid, did I tell you that when my heart and soul are in this undetectable mode, nobody can hear my screams during my free fall? Fantasy. A benefit of this habitat is that you can always regain your footing, no matter how often you fall. Did you know that fantasy is t...

Ivan! Most things in life, like celebrations, come and go as they will. Even friendship between close friends dries up and dies like they never even took place. Friends forgetting friends, is only human and happens all the time. Why? Because people move on with their lives and forget what’s left behind! In my life as a lower grade pupil, I still have lingering memories I shared with my friend. Would you believe me if I told you that our life-long friendship stretches from childhood . Ivan and I were in the same grade.  I used to stop by Ivan’s house every school day to fetch him. Incredibly, Ivan lived only 100 meters from our school, but I never recall finding Ivan ready and waiting. Instead, I had to wait for Ivan as his mother checked him and made sure he was good to go. Ivan and I went separate ways when we got promoted to start high school. After this, we completely lost each other even when we were staying in the same area. Days, weeks, months, and years flew past over our he...