PIKELELA GUTYUNGWA MEMOIRS

  Twisted History Lessons! Winners in all wars get to write and dictate the history about that same war. The winners hold the full rights for the controversial narratives to the chagrin of the defeated! The truth is the first casualty of all wars, we are told! All the pre-war peace talks come to nothing after the first arrow or bullet has been fired. All wars are territorial! The land contested for, becomes the battleground. Power and gaining ascendancy over the opposite side is the real tug-of-war! Since the beginning of time, man’s greed to bite more than he can chew... is legendary. Greed in most wars is never driven by a lack of anything but by lack of peace! To conquer and be conquering, is the ultimate opium for destruction without cause! In most history lessons ever taught in any form or capacity, the real factual truth gets discarded inside the annals of disinformation. It is hard to believe what we’ve been taught since our first day in school is the ultimat...

  Please, Mind Your Steps! I believe life would have been a bed of roses had I been forearmed with a complete roadmap upon arrival. Is this even feasible in real life? I doubt it. One side of the brain argues I would have been in no position to translate even the simplest rule inside this dream roadmap. The other side laughs out loud and touts me of being a nutcracker even for thinking this way! Why not? Oh yes, you wouldn’t have the knowledge nor the wisdom to follow through all the advices dealt to you! Every single step we take forward in life is a revelation.. we don’t get to see what’s around the corner until the turn is completed! Please, mind your steps, is the least and the final warning you’ll ever get. Please, do treat this as the only disclaimer life will ever shout out loud! In my naivety I walked in with a shiny forehead and came out the other side with a bruised face. Life indeed, is filled with shocking surprises.. sometimes we laugh at ourselves fo...

  I Want To Believe! God has spoken once; twice have I heard this; that Power belongs to God. Also unto Thee O Lord, belongs Mercy: for Thou renders to every man according to his work. I want to believe that most Christians, especially the mega church members: know for a fact.. All Power belongs to God! David in this Psalm, reminds himself about what he heard and knew all along. Power belongs to God only! The Bishop. Eddie Long became the Pastor of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Atlanta Georgia, 1987. At the time of his takeover, membership numbers were roughly 300. Incredibly, by the turn of the Century, there were more than 25 000 regular members. In 2010, four young men came forward and accused the bishop of sexually molesting them over the years; since they were fourteen years of age. The bishop denied these allegations and tried to weather the storm by hiding behind his congregants. After a short while, Eddie Long agreed to settle out of court f...

  Alone In The Forest! In my mother’s womb, nature taught me to play with myself and by myself.. all alone! Little did I know that I was being prepared to apply these skills much later in my twilight years. Swimming like a deep-sea diver with my umbilical cord always attached to my sweet mother. Like a lifeline, this cord sustained and helped me to breathe freely within the waters of life. My life began in earnest seconds after my father’s seed caught up with mother’s runaway egg. Issues of life started to flow as my father’s blood began to develop my foetus from just a blob into a full blown baby.. Me! At birth, my highly anticipated arrival was received with song and a dance! I was loved and cherished by all my sisters and brothers. Growing up from crawling to standing and eventually; to stand unassisted, was like a dream. This one thing too, was celebrated by everyone who witnessed this milestone achievement. Wow, the small man can finally walk: they chuckled...

  COMMENTS.. The road ahead always equals the distance traversed! The total number of days in our lives defy mathematical laws! No matter at what age one’s life ends.. our days and years always fold up in even numbers! In these lines, I'm using the mathematical rule for circumference. Our life is never a straight line but always unfolds in  circular movements.  We start as a dot inside our sphere at conception and steadily spread out into the borders of our circumference at birth.  I drew the even number theory from the Book of Ecclesiastes.  Ecclesiastes 12:7 [7]Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. This is the only backward movement taking place when a man gives up the ghost. Returning to dust is like returning back to the dot in the center of the circle, where it all began and in equal number of forward steps taken.  I hope and pray that God will shed the Light of His Word even through the mo...

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 Recommended Narrative...  ONE WAY ROAD !  Back Then Is Now! Back then is now and yesterday is still today even though our shadows have moved to a different spot. Back then is now. Imagine how crazy our solar systems could get if the sun and the moon decided to run after the rolling earth! Back then is now. Our life has been set by God and activated on a sixty seconds countdown. This clock ticks on from the cradle to the grave! We can feel it ticking away through our heartbeats. Back then is now! Just why do I spend all my life tirelessly trying to catch up with all my yesteryears of yesterday? Back then is now! Sometimes the pride of life deceives a man to believe he’s in charge and a driver of his future. Back then is now. Sometimes I sit down at a busy marketplace and just watch life overlapping life. What a sight! If God would borrow me His lenses, I’ll be able see people of all ages walking up and down: with their longevity chronometers visibly stuc...