I recently bumped into a very angry lady at the post office. From no where, she started talking of how she wanted to get back home as quickly as possible, take a shower, and put on different clothes. Out of curiosity, I asked her what was going on. With great anger and pain that unfortunately she would not hide, she started to narrate how she has mistakenly gone into a tobacco store and how, in a matter of seconds, she came out smelling like some one who had been smoking the whole day. ” I am so sorry,” was all that I would say.
On my way home, I found myself seriously thinking about spouses and children who find themselves in a similar situation: Think with me if you can on the following:
1. Think of a spouse who drinks alcoholic beverages and the impact it has on the other partner and the children.
2. Think about a spouse who smokes and the impact it has on the other partner and children.
3. Think of a spouse who eats garlic and the impact it has on the other partner and the children.
Well, this is one of those things that I find very challenging indeed! How they do it, only God knows.
My humble appeal to those who either drink or smoke is to take time out and ask yourself hard heart searching questions. Do you love your spouse and children? Do you care about your actions or it doesn’t bother you at all? What will it take you to get rid of the habit?
Do you need help?
Let us all pray for one another as we journey on. Shall we?
Just a thought
Pr Birai
612-386-4608
www.themaranathasdachurch.org
Professor,
Tushaa gundua you are a man of God and you are also an educated man. Kwa hivi sasa nchi yetu inaumia juu ya ukabila. Ukianza kuongea juu ya maneno “american” vis-a vis” walevi, wavutaji sigara, etcetera etcetera, you are losing focus on the issues. You are beginning to infringe on the rights of the people that CHOOSE to do that. Wewe kama professor, you are in this preacrious position kufundisha wanainch without necessarily trying to convert them to what you believe should be good for them because it is goo for you. After all, sisi sote tulipitia njia tofauti kufika Canaan. Educate the masses and let them make their own decisions and decide their fate. Ukianza kuwasomea, you are basically infringing on the rights that they are trying to fight for sasa. Si tukubaliane “mzee mwenzagu?” Kazi yetu ni kuelimisha wanainch ili waweze kujitetea wenyewe.
Mzee mwenzako
Texas