AUTUMN LEAVES

'Will you break a leaf, driven to and fro?

Will you pursue the dry stubble  ?

You put my feet in the stocks

and lookest narrowly upon all my paths.

JOB 13V23-24

I NOTICED THESE VERSES way back in the '90s.    I was struck by them, and by the images they conjured in my mind.       I thought of a leaf, driven to and fro, and imagined a leaf drained of its life, blown from its place by the wind, helplessly driven to and fro till it finally reached the ground, waiting to turn to dust. ,Fallen leaves are merely trampled under foot or left to molder away, back into the dust.    Somehow dead leaves can be of little worth, We crumple them up in our hand for the fun of it.  And even we can come to a place where we see our very selves to be of little worth, deserving of little more than to be spurned and perhaps forgotten, YET God takes notice of us all, not regarding our condition.   Will He break a leaf overwhelmed by the wind?    No!      'A bruised reed HE will not break, and a dimly burning wick HE will not quench' writes Isaiah in chapter 42v3.     At no time does God give up on any one of us whilst there is a sign of Life in us.     Somehow our Father in Heaven always sees our underlying value, and looks under the surface to find a hidden beauty, and a reason to HOPE.

Will HE pursue the dry stubble - the spiritually dried out husk, the fruitless stubble of our life?   Will interest Himself in a 'field', a life, past its best, already harvested of its fruit? Yes He will, and we should always endevour to continually keep the apprehension of the goodness and compassion of God toward us, so that we also treat each other in this way - especially, but not only, those that are of the Family of God.    God and us together must learn to love each other so that we believe for the success of one another successfully.    But often we grow neglectful, and find our 'old self' looking critically and even judgmentally at one another.   THUS we see a tide of 'hate speech' pervading our daily affairs.   Men and women opening their mouths to let all the evil that is in their heart flow out in injurious and damaging words.

ELDORET is said to have more than one thousand Pastors, even more church buildings, all described as Christian belonging to more than 240 different 'Christian' denominations.   Are all these Pastors praying together?   Do they love one another?   Do the Members of their congregations love those members of other, different, denominations?    Is there UNITY.      If the answer were to be YES, then surely this town must be seen to be like Heaven!   With 1000+ churches and regular evangelistic Crusades crime still flourishes, corruption is rampant, and immorality on the increase.

And even those supposedly representing God often find themselves with their 'feet in the stocks' unable to walk in His steps and keep to the Straight and Narrow way.     Aye!  And many of them mistrust each other as brethren and look NARROWLY, meanly and even suspiciously upon each other's ministry.     And everywhere there is blatant and determined competition relative to how big a church is, and how many members it has.     And most are run to make money and not to bring peace to the soul of a man or woman.

One Commentator stated some years ago that in Kenya the breadth of Christianity is WIDE, but not very deep.     Commitment is rare to find;  commitment to living the LIFE Christ gives us I mean.

A lot of nominal Christians of ALL denominations.    Drums, electric guitars, keyboards, and high powered loud speakers all combine to deafeningly blast the Bible, and not always the Truth, from every corner.    But do we love one another?   Do we enquire after one another? are we concerned to know our brothers and sisters across the Christian spectrum of dini?

SO on the surface we have peace and comparative quietness in the midst of severe poverty, with the majority living under the 'Bread Line' - but we do (even foreign missionaries) tend to look narrowly upon one another.      We find it easy to doubt each other's integrity and sense of purpose on all levels. 

And the TEACHERS, are still on strike, and many of them will testify to being Christians, yea, even Born Again.   But they have not obeyed the Government, have not laid down their complaint, willing to sacrifice themselves, for the sake of the children. Another sign of how truly un Christlike people are.    It is still ME first, and God and the whosoever afterwards.    Still not much better than unbelievers really.     We hear people say NOT MY WILL, but Yours be done, but we see more and more people DOING what they want, not what God wants - and according to Matthew 7 it looks as if a lot of people who think they are OK with Jesus on their lips, may end up shut out and cast out of Heaven - just because they did not DO God's Will in their lives.    Scary.

REASON to pray and re-evaluate our lives, our faith.  Reason to apologize to God in Heaven, and turn our lives around to truly demonstrate just how sorry we are.   Will God in Heaven hear the sinner?    Will He listen to the waster of life?   Will he look at us with a loving and mercy filled heart - just as we are in all our imperfections?    YES He will  - just make sure Jesus is with you when you talk to Him ( your Father).

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ARE WE PEOPLE OF OUR WORD & ACCOUNTABLE?

HONESTY, in not a very fashionable word today.    It goes together with another word that is hard to find demonstrated in world society at this juncture; the word 'INTEGRITY'.     And without a working understanding and demonstration  of these words world society is seriously compromised, and without visible accountability.

Where are we to look, for example, for
plainness of speech; simple language which actually means what it says?     We have duplicity, insincerity, and even plain deceit blatantly spoken orally on our radios, T.V.s and other electronic media.  The world of commerce regularly presents misleading and even untrue descriptions and facts about what it is trying to sell.    The politician likewise uses words to make promises he or she cannot keep, and sometimes do not intend to keep; they lie more than admit the truth.      We present ourselves and our point of view dressed up and made respectable without reference as to the HONESTY of our words or presentation.    And without TRUTH, honesty, and the integrity to use them, the whole world's atmosphere can be changed for the worst, since lies and misrepresentation of truth can plunge us all into negative thoughts and ideas.    A very apt depiction of this can be found in the character of 'Wormtongue' as portrayed in the Lord of the Rings, and his effect as a councillor to the King of the Mark.      Wormtongue has a 'forked-tongue' and his speech was cleverly divided between Truth and Falsity.    He turned Truth into lies, and negativeness so that in the end he squeezed all hope and strength out of the King so that he despaired.     There are many like him in our world; men and women who will call Evil Good, and Good Evil.

THIS WEEK IN KENYA we find Kenyans throwing words at each other; words they claim are truth.
Yet there is no way each protagonist has the truth on his or her lips.   Some are lying, and lying willfully in order to mislead, and perhaps even divert the course of Justice.     Politics IS, for the most part a lying game, where words are used to manipulate without thought of Truth.     Indeed one can one wonder if ANY in our world's Governments can claim to conduct themselves and their cause with Integrity - putting Truth and Honesty first in all they say and do, rather than their point of view and ambition.       Something of the 'serpent' in all of us I suspect - and without much restraint if we are without the real conviction, planted by the Holy Spirit, of what is Right and Wrong in ourselves;  then we shall descend further into deep darkness.       We are already a long way into such a 'Darkness', and this can be seen in a description of our Age given in 2.Timothy 3v1-9 found in the New Testament of the Bible where St. Paul tells Timothy - 'In the last days perilous, (dangerous and risky) times shall come, for men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful and unholy........ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth .... men of corrupt mind.....'      Where can we look to find men or women of sound mind, and plain and honest speech?  

Where are the men and women of INTEGRITY?    Principled people whose 'word is their bond', ever living an honest and transparent life in front of their children and peers?   Men and women who can be counted on to DO their DUTY no matter how tempted to do otherwise?

JOB in the Bible was a man of integrity!    God asked Satan about him in Job 1v8.  God said -  'Have you considered my servant JOB, that there is no one like him in the Earth, a perfect and an upright man; one that fears God and keeps clear of evil?'    Satan was so annoyed that there was even one man so perfect that he set about his destruction.     He did his best to make Job curse God and die.  But JOB continued UPRIGHT and kept his INTEGRITY.   And God was able once again to draw Satan's attention to JOB in chapter 2v3.
Satan immediately brought a ruinous sickness upon Job, so that he lost his peace, and his popularity.     And Not ANY like him, God says.     His wife asked him ' Do you still retain your integrity?    BUT Job did not depart from his faith in, his honour for God.  (chapter 2v9-10)     In the loss of family, wealth, and health JOB remained true to himself and God.    He did not sin with his lips - did NOT lie or deceive anyone with words of blame or accusation. . But JOB was real.   He lived and existed on this planet, and HE managed to keep his moral integrity!      Surely one or two of us could make an effort to at least TRY to be like him?

Her Majesty Elisabeth 11 of The United Kingdom, is, I believe, an honest woman; a woman of integrity!     YES, I believe it.   For 63 years this woman has kept her promise, made at her Coronation to God, and to the the Peoples she was to Rule.   She had kept her promise, also to her husband for 68 years.   Although she has gone through personal tragedy, family strife, and public antagonism, she has remained TRUE to her Faith in God, and her Role Model to the People.    She has unwaveringly done her Duty, uprightly and fearlessly.      If we stop and consider we will find others, there is no doubt.     But WHO can we look to in Politics, or Religion, or even in every day life?     Can you or I trust in our own Honesty and Integrity of Life and living?     WHY not.     Can we trust our Leaders to be men and women of this ilk?    What of our President?      Can we be SURE they speak the TRUTH when they address us, and when they deliberate in the Cabinet and Parliament on our behalf?
Can our CHILDREN look up and SEE such adults in front of them with such quality of example and be moved to be like them, to their own improvement?       If not we are all sunk as a nation.   We are going DOWN rather than UP.         Oh, God - help us to enlist your aid to hang on to our INTEGRITY,  and be people in whom Truth and Honesty will for ever control and dictate our words and actions in every situation.

Our President is suffering a great deal of criticism in the recent Press and Media.    It is even bandied about that he should be 'Impeached', and that he purposely misleads his hearers in his speeches.  I think he is a man who has come a long way, and is still trying to go further.     But I know also that he will not always write his own Speeches - mistakes can be made.     If he can admit mistakes and continue to insist on what he himself believes to be right and true then we might discover a man at least as strong and visionary as his father was.    But he will not be liked by all!!    President Moi began his Presidency like that, but threats, and crisitism soon made inroads on that initial determined morality, and he flagged along the way.    Of course I may be laughed at;   I am not a very knowledgeable man when it comes to any Nations politics - BUT I may very well also be RIGHT.
We shall observe the President as days and weeks pass by.       It would be wonderful to discover him to be a truly UPRIGHT man.     His life confirming his words   to be honest and sincere.         But if not......well we just need to pray for someone to APPEAR!!

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FOR THE HARDNESS OF OUR HEARTS!

THIS WEEK I am thinking of DIVORCE, and how it has increased since I was a child.   Of course as a conclusion to a marriage Divorce has always been an option.     We have got used to it.
The Christian World for a thousand years based its permission for Divorce upon Unfaithfulness.
Only if one or the other partner in the Marriage were found to be Unfaithful to the other could Divorce be considered.     In being questioned about Divorce JESUS CHRIST said in the Gospel of Matthew chapter 19 v8-9  -  'Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, suffered you to put away your wives; but from the beginning it was not so.    And I say unto you, whoever shall put away his wife,except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery; and whosoever marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.'    Even then, in Jesus day, His followers  did not like this word, and their reply to His words were, in verse 10 - ' ...If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.'     Even the first Christians seemed to feel that divorce was inevitable!!  Certainly in THIS generation the assumption is even more universally held.    BUT it was not the original INTENTION;  not God's Plan or Purpose
However, one can assume that Moses was so inundated with petitions to allow Divorce, so that in the end he gave in to giving his permission, but only when the complaint accused the wife of unfaithfulness;  of fornication!     BUT NOWADAYS it can be ANYTHING that irritates, offends, or annoys either partner.     It is generally called INCOMPATIBILITY, and the Courts will usually grant the Petition, whatever the offence might be, with certain conditions attached.  

There has been so much increase in the incidence of Divorce in the last 50 years that it has caused young people to become cautious and suspicious of committing themselves to any long term relationship; the emphasis being on 'long term'!     Marriage was meant to be a life time commitment of one man to one woman.     In the average Wedding Service in the Christian Church the words 'until death do us part' forms part of the Promise made to each by the other.   I will NEVER leave you.......I will never look at another....I will always be faithful.....till death do us part - for EVER!       AND it is supposed to be promised in front of God as Witness of our sincerity.       But of course God has not been counting for much in recent years.    Who needs to get married in Church anyway?    We can do a civil Wedding in front of a District Officer or Magistrate!    Why we do not even need to get MARRIED!       Such a bore!     As long as we love each other, have lust for each other, what does it matter.       So LESS marriage candidates tend to marry in Church, and more just have relationships, unsubstantiated by any Oath or Public Promise to bind them together.   Yes, the whole idea of being bound together in front of God is slowly receding in the bulk of world usage.
AND EVEN MARRIAGE AS A WORD is in danger of disappearing from society, and with it also the understanding of Family, and thus the loss of the concept of Home, the very building block of our race and civilisation.     Home and Family!  They are both in danger of vanishing, and with them the foundation of our humanity.

This year I, and my wife Esther, have been married for 44 years.  We met and fell in love, and determined to stick together through thick and thin, and bring up a family (we were to have three of our own, and four adopted) in a loving home environment.        Neither of us were saints, and when we go married both of us had lived alone a long time.    My wife was twenty seven and I was thirty one.     We were only engaged a year before making our promises to each other in Church.    Then after the initial romance and excitement of the first month we began to discover exactly what the other one was really like.    We discovered we did not agree, or see everything the same, in so many areas of our life.    We each had habits of living developed over decades of living alone.   I was white and British, she was Brown and Kikuyu!     Did we have confrontations?  Of course.    At the end of the first year she was thinking of leaving me........It was Christmas almost, and we sat together before she was to leave - we were living with 28 orphaned boys at the time, and one of them, a five year old, came to sit between us lovingly, worried because WE looked so sad.       Esther and I looked into each other's eyes.    We loved each other.   Why could we not forgive each other's different ways? Why could we not suffer each other - after all we DID love each other, and wasn't that love worth more than all the imperfections that each of might have.       And so she unpacked her bag and stayed, and we have gone on suffering and forgiving each others faults, and grown in our love for each other right up to the present.     Because of this we have been able to see hundreds of children leave our home (Testimony Faith Homes) to make homes for themselves, knowing that they too can find a lasting relationship and build a loving home together.      No regrets, only Thanksgiving.      But I must be honest and say that we had one huge advantage together.     We both believed in God's Love for each other, and both wanted to faithful to GOD and not just to ourselves.

Regretfully, even in the Churches, marriages are coming unstuck - often in the first two or three months or years!.....Certainly this implies that when these couples married they had not learned much about loving each other in the highest sense, and were not prepared to be cheated of anything.  Today the quality of SELFISHNESS controls more and more of our lives.     Culture can in part be responsible for this..      Since the turn of the 20th Century Women's Rights have been in the ascendant, and Men have increasingly been threatened with take a back seat.   There has been a huge drive to give total equality sexually in all areas of human life.       Women want to be freed from male domination.    Men do not take kindly to being dominated by emancipated women who want to take the wheel in everything.     This poses so many problems in actually living together as ONE.
You see, when you marry, you are intended to become  ONE with the other.       TWO are to be ONE, not just in bed, but in LIFE.       BUT no!  The husband wants to be heard - and the woman no less. Same sex marriage is more than gender - it the both sexes wanting to have equal rights in everything, and to have it over the other!

IT CAN BECOME VERY UGLY INDEED.    But then the WORLD is becoming generally more ugly isn't it.       And perhaps at least some of that ugliness is developing from the breakdown of Marriage, and of loving homes and families.    I read recently 'The rate of divorce in Kenya is on the rise.....reports indicate that there is a divorce case in Court every day.   Married couples are now divorcing fast in Kenya than new couples are getting married.  WHY?  It was cited that lack of parental guidance had become a factor in failing Kenyan Marriages.'  Considering this latter point it may again have to do with the fact that parental guidance can itself be divided due to having been broken up itself by divorce!!    A vicious circle?   Perhaps, at least to some extent.    My parents divorced......the effect on me was to make me WANT a lasting marriage and relationship that would provide a lasting and secure home and family base for my children.    THAT stayed with me, and by the grace of God that is what I have been given.

MARRIAGE SHOULD BE ONE OF THEM MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF OUR LIVES, and one of the strongest foundations on which to build upon,      There may be exceptions, but for the most part every husband and wife should continually remember the love that drew them to the other, and to overlook the offences and shortcomings of the other;  no one is perfect and in fact no one will be MORE perfect than another.   My mother ran away from being battered to death by her husband, a drunkard, and at that time she was probably right - yet ten years later she was back with her husband, both having forgiven the other.     Be GLAD for your husband, and be Glad for your Wife, and ignore all reasons, temptations, attractions and even excuses to lust after any other.     Your love and your respect; your trust and reliance toward the other will establish you more and more.   Believe it!   It is true.     BUT you have to learn forbearance and merciful forgiveness in your attitude to each other's foibles and mistakes. There will be plenty of them as there have been on both sides of my own marriage experience.  But now we do not just love each other's bodies; we love each other's person, and have gained respect for each other, and a 'togetherness' we never thought possible.      Marriage is something planted, that needs time and space to GROW, develop, and flourish.

I commend Marriage, with no thought of Divorce as a an 'escape route. for any reason.     If our marriages cannot succeed and endure conflict and opposition then we should not expect Nations to agree and live in peace with each other either.    Dr. Martin Lloyd Jones emphasises this when he says 

'What right have we to expect nations to stand by their promises and to keep their vows to each other, if men and women do not do it even in this most solemn and sacred union of marriage?  We must start with ourselves, we must start at the Beginning.   We must observe the Law of God (not Moses) in our personal and individual lives..'       

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ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL

ELEPHANTS !!
Yes, today I want to spend a little time on the plight of the Elephant.
Recently Kenya has seen an increase in    poaching generally, and it seems little can be, or IS being done about it.
Elephants, it is predicted, may be extinct in Africa within TEN years if Poaching is not stopped.    These huge, wonderful animals are hunted not for food but for their TUSKS; for their ivory.   It is said that Elephants are being slaughtered in Africa at a rate of '20.000-25.000 per year out of a population of just 420 to 620,000.

In 2011 it was reported that more than 150 Chinese citizens were arrested across Africa, from Kenya to Nigeria, for smuggling ivory, and there is growing evidence that poaching increases in elephant-rich areas where Chinese construction workers are building roads.'

A Senior State Department official, Robert Hormats, has been put on record as saying ' China is the epicenter of demand - (for Ivory) - Without the demand from China this (trade) would all but dry up.' Some experts have said that the survival of the species is at stake ('we are experiencing the greatest percentage loss of elephants in history'). What is being done about it? Well some effort is being bade, but not enough. The Year of 2011 was perhaps the worst with hundreds of Elephants killed across the Continent. Even the calves were killed, apparently for no reason, and it was as if there was a settled intention to destroy every Elephant living. During 2013 and 2014 poaching continued at set levels with little change, and almost unchecked. How many Elephants does Kenya have left? I don't know. I saw a note recently putting the number at about one hundred thousand, but I think it is much less. EVERY day it is said an Elephant dies every 15 minutes worldwide.     Ninety six die in Africa every day!     How long can we expect the remaining few to last?     Truly the Elephant may be GONE in our lifetime!

I must admit that I like Elephants. But I am not just concerned for them because I find them attractive and fascinating creatures.   I am also aware they are part of the Plan of God in His Creation; they have a place to fill, and it is not just as a spectacle, or as a provider of Meat or Ivory.    They have a place in our environment, and affect the worldwide balance of our ecology.

WITHOUT THEM we would be the losers in ways we have not even imagined.    They are here for a purpose that may well affect us all.     Indeed when we treat the world echo system carelessly we endanger ourselves most of all, as well as every other animal and plant species.      Those who kill and uproot selfishly and without any discrimination are ENEMIES of us us all.    Enemies of God as well.        It is said that the Chinese value Ivory and might do almost anything to get their hands on it.   'It is said by experts that know, that as much as 70% of all illegally procured ivory is flowing to China.     It is also said that the Shabab and Darfur's janjaweed that are hunting the elephant for its ivory in order to pay for guns and to sustain their lifestyle.     Is it Man who is his own worst enemy, or is he motivated and misdirected by another greater Enemy?  He wants us all dead anyway, and is quite prepared, if he can put it into our mind, to help us destroy ourselves by pulling the 'carpet' of our echo system from right out from under our feet.

We should ALL be concerned for the world around us; not just OUR social comfort, but we should care to maintain and keep in good health the Creation, both animal and plant, that provides us with a stable planet to live on.     Right now we seem to have forgotten that it Man's responsibility to ensure this, rather then exploit it all for his own convenience.

KEEP GOD IN MIND!     In Genesis 2v15 it is written 'And the LORD God too the man and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it  (King James Version of the Bible)
The New International Bible says 'The LORD God too the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.'
Right at the BEGINNING of everything, God having made all the plant and animal life, He then commissioned Adam what to do with it all.
The Hebrew word Abad means 'to dress, to tend, a vineyard'.
The Hebrew word Shamar means 'to watch, preserve, to guard;
to build a hedge around'.

So right at the Beginning God gave Man a Mandate that involved tending and guarding Creation.      The word 'Dominion' which can be translated 'power' or more properly 'authority' relates to having God's trust and mandate to take care of, and to guard His property - His Creation.
MAN was NOT give authority to LORD it over everything in an effort to make himself more comfortable, richer,  or contented.  He was not told to USE Creation for his own interest, but to CARE for it in God's interest.       Neither was he given permission to KILL anything unless it was to satisfy his hunger.     BUT NOW Man has told himself it's OK to kill - anything, and anyone, even himself if it pleases him.     Yes Man stopped listening to God when Eve listened to the Serpent, and after that he went astray in everything he attempted - and instead of caring and guarding, Man has neglected and exposed to attack everything that God has provided.


Teach yourself AND your children and grandchildren to CARE and to GUARD Planet Earth, and NOT to exploit and denude if of every good thing that contributes to our well being.

I MADE AN AGREEMENT WITH MY EYES - Job 31v1

PORNO-GRAPHY -  Do we have a Board of Censorship in Kenya that keeps an eye on what we see, read, and hear, as we pick up a book, video, or audio tape to be entertained with?    What kind of Films are we being exposed to?    How much freedom do we have to watch unhealthy, unguarded and morally decadent material on the International Net? Do YOU have such a Board in your Country, and if so is anyone checking on what its standards are - just in case they have become too libertine, and careless?   Do you in fact care what you are allowed to feed on through the Media as a whole?    Are you aware how easily humanity is being dehumanised by the Media into eventually accepting standards of life and belief that erode everything our human experience and faith in God has, over the millennia, built up into what was once referred to with some respect and awe as Civilization?     

It is a sad fact that most Civilizations such as the Greek and Roman ended in moral and ethical collapse.     It has been said that this is t also true of the British and American civilizations.     Usually this is manifest in lifestyles and philosophies that descend to the uttermost abomination and degradation in their human behaviour.

I have been reading a book by one Michael Potter, Principal of Tyndale Christian School in Southern Australia.     The book is entitled 'We Have a VOICE!', and it deals with our world Society and our attitude to it.    An excellent little book that needs to be read.    The 15th chapter is entitled SEX, and on page 102 Potter says -

'THINGS have changed!  Today there are millions of online images of all types of sexual activity that can be easily accessed by our teenagers in the privacy of their bedrooms or on their smart phones.   These include not just naked images of 'conventional' sex acts, but also images of group sex, fisting, rimming, oral sex, bondage, sadomasochistic sex, and the list goes on.    OUR young people are seeing these things on a regular basis.   It is estimated, on average, that 70% of boys have seen online pornography by the age of 12, and close to 100% by the age of 15.       Over 50% of girls of 12 and under have seen online pornography, and 97% by the age of 16.'

Of course, it is not merely 'smart phones' and 'computers' that are a main artery of obscene material.    It is on Cable Television as well, and even in adult films and literature.     A good number of Magazines are close to being pornographic and can be obtained on our bookstalls.
Mike Potters book is very frank, and as I went on reading there were parts - even in the chapter quoted - that literally made me feel I had read enough - his graphic depiction of what is happening to our children, as well as to ourselves, made me want to vomit.   WHY?    Well just because to be confronted by such truth is like waking up to the reality that we are all living in a wormy and polluted world, where everyone is open to contamination,  until we all become as worms altogether, alive in slime and muck.         I don't want that for myself.     I certainly don't want that for my grand-children!   Yet much of what I would designate 'porn' is taken for granted as today's reading material - especially by our sons and daughters.    Ian Flemmings books for example are so 'graphic' that their content clings to one long after having read the print.    To NOT be made to feel 'unclean' can only mean that our moral conscience is already dead.    

Michael Potter's book encourages those of us who are concerned to SPEAK UP, and make ourselves HEARD.    I think this is brilliant.
We who have VOICES should SPEAK UP  - and not only about Pornography!      We need to find ways and means of making ourselves heard here in Kenya, and all over the world.     We need to lobby our Governments to take notice of what is endangering our society, our nationality and our humanity.      In England, when I was growing up, we had a lady named Mary Whitehouse, who rose up to protest about the diminishing moral standard of the Nation. She energized an existing organization to become the Watchdog of the Nation, and herself a household name.    ANY book magazine, film, video, or Internet program she vetted and inspected, and then worked hard to have what she considered indecent or obscene removed from the Market.    Of course she did not do this single handed; she had a huge team of helpers with her.    She did not end up controlling the Net, or TV, or even the rest of the Media - but she did seriously deter all of them from destroying US for at least three decades.    She was not a man pleaser in her opinions; she did it for God, and God alone. -  and NOW?     Well now she has gone. Things have changed!

Who is watching out here in Kenya?     I don't know.     I do not hear anything to suggest that there is any one Crying out.    If Moral Re-armament is HERE, it is silent as the grave.     Well even if nothing is accomplished we are all responsible to do what we can to uphold the Likeness of God in our Society, Race, and Kind.   Who knows the tides might be turned.

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