Today is 20th September 2009. Glad that it is a holiday in Kenya, Id ul Fitr, courtesy of our Muslim brothers and sisters across the world. First congratulations to you all who have successfully been able to deny the flesh and discipline it during the past 30 days!

This weekend has been a blessing as i have been able to completely rest.This is significant for me as over the past 8 weeks i have been shuttling across different cities and for that i owe it to myself to update my blogs and journeys through these cities in Africa. It is also significant as tomorrow i embark on another burst of travel that will take me to Maputo, Johannesburg and Kampala. At the end of this round of travel i will have earned myself a good vacation and rest from travel for all the month of October!

It was quite an experience to team up with Janet and Flora to go visit Pastor Andrew (my brother) in Kiserian. Part of the experience came from driving my sisters little Vits! (a pink one at that) through the long journey to Kiserian. it went on really well and we were able to test the mettle of the car through the Ngong hills and the final steep descent in to Pastors residence.

Visiting Pastor was also significant as two days ago he had some "unwelcome visitors" who struck at midnight and in frustration of not being able to take away anything they extensively damaged Pastors car. Our mission was to encourage Pastor's family to stick to their resolve to stay put in the land they have set foot on to possess and dwell in.

I heard an interesting story from one of the neighbours who has learnt how to stay put in the face of the frequent attacks from the hooligans..apparently to discourage the new arrivals, the Masai developed a habit of stealing diary cows from this particular neighbour. this stealing was not for any economic gain as the dairy cow is not adaptable as the Masai cow is so the Masai would slaughter it not very far from where they stole the cow. this practise went on one homestead a week. the Masai raiders did the mistake of visiting the same homestead after 3weeks. by this time the owner of this homestead was fed up and had wired up his compound with TNT (the same stuff used in quarries to blast ballast...and when the raiders ventured in they were blasted off to kingdom come. Of course there was no chance not to repeat the same mistake again and ever since they have lived peacefully. i gather this happened 3 years ago.

Travelling with Flo meant leaving my nephews Malcolm and Jerry with Keith and Kyle. this worked very well as when we got back the kids had had their fair share of play and were so exhausted and ready for bed time.

The bible says in Psm 133:1-6 that how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity...it is like the oil that was poured upon Aaron's head, that flowed down his beards...it is like the dew upon mount Hermon.....for there the Lord commands a blessing, even life forevermore.
I claim that blessing today

So tomorrow the packing starts again as i head to Maputo for a series of meetings with customers and operators. That however will be the subject of another blog.