Fire Of The Lighthouse

I remember it like it was just yesterday. Running around the yard with my older brother, playing an invented game called "Shadows" to kill off the weekend boredom. I remember screaming my loudest at the age of 10 on a fun fair ride at Gold Reef City, South Africa (The Mermaid, if I remember its name!). I even remember the amazing feeling on 24th September 2016, when all my family and friends gathered around my beautiful birthday cake to wish me the best year to come. As I watched the clock tick into midnight, I recapped on the great things that have happened for the past seventeen years of my life and I felt joy settle in my heart. Then suddenly, BOOM! An idea dropped. How about I share some of them with you, my beloved reader? In this special blog post, I will share eighteen things I have been grateful for with a small sentence on explaining why I am grateful. I hope that whatever I share will inspire you and teach you to be grateful for the th...

Once upon a time, I thought testimonies were for selected people. Yes, honestly. I never thought I could ever have a testimony. I honestly thought something bad had to happen for my life story to proclaim God's amazing power and grace. Well, I never knew what this year had in store for me.  When I heard that 2017 was a year of favour, it was hard to believe. However, at the end of January, after the prayer and fasting season, I decided, Let me just believe . I completed high school at the age of fifteen in 2015, and after leaving, I was unsure of what I wanted to pursue career-wise. I watched my friends happily pack up their bags and leave to Universities abroad and wondered what to do next. I did AS levels in 2016, for 9 months and finished in December, but yet again, I had nothing to do. Well, at least I didn't know what to do. One day, on one of my daily Facebook binges, I was scrolling through my news feed and I found a page that a friend recentl...

It's not possible, I finally said, shaking my head. I looked down at my pages full of red ink and decided, Katai, this greatness thing is just too hard. Most times, when people see me, I move around with a big black book in my hand called "Written In The Stars", where I am always jotting down notes.(that is how much I love writing). This book is my personal journal where I write down my personal revelations, notes (most of them end up on this very blog) and most importantly, dreams. However, at this moment in time, I stared at this page and wondered whether this new thing is possible. Continuing from where I left off, after I decided to be great, I began to think big and great thoughts. I asked and inquired from God, asking Him, what do you want me to do with my l ife? How can you use my passions and gifting to bring out the best version of me? Days later, after constant searching and much thought, I felt my ideas flow. I grabbed my red pen and began to write d...

Dear Reader, let me tell you a story of a young lady I once knew. Greatness. "What's greatness ", a young lady asked herself. She sat down one free afternoon and asked herself that question a countless number of times. Alone at home, she was bored as ever. So to keep herself occupied, she decided to surf the Internet. After watching countless funny videos and scrolling through her Facebook news feed, she decided, You know what, let me search on the people who made good landmarks in history. She went through the archives of great names such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, even Jesus of Nazareth. Inspired by their life changing biographies, she wondered, "What made these people great and memorable?" Were they special? Were they marked out to be different and the rest of us not? Why is it that people were born in their timeline were not remembered until now? She found an answer, well part of it,  by re-reading a blog post she read from th...

One day, I sat wearily at my desk. I love thinking and most of my actions originate from a single thought. I try my best to tune into positivity, but today, I decided to think about life. I was bothered by the fact that life is too random. One moment you think you understand it, next it changes. In my journal of plans and dreams, called "Written in The Stars", there are plans I made in sheer confidence that they will come to pass exactly  how I have written down. But with the passage of time, either see they don't come to pass or something completely different takes place. One day, I got very frustrated and sulked the whole day thinking, " So what is the point of this "making plans"? What if my future isn't as bright as they say it is? Plans for good? Will that happen?" In an instant, thoughts of worry and doubt captured my mind, and it seemed like the worst was ahead of me. It was these thoughts that led to my weariness. This continued for...

When I was a child, I always wanted to be a royal. I grew up with Disney influencing my life and I loved the Disney princesses. With an active imagination, I would dream that I was Sleeping Beauty or Snow White, the Zambian Version. Growing older and mature, I realised that these were all fantasies, but the desire to rule or to lead still burned in me. When I got saved, I heard that under Jesus, we are "heirs to a throne" or "royal priests". You can imagine how I felt when I heard that! So now I get to have a crown, guaranteed respect and an endless supply of food and clothes. Certified awesomeness! This was my thought pattern until one day (it seems like I always have this particular day when I begin to see things as they really are!), it dawned on me that Jesus' translation of royalty was completely different. It was beyond being pampered, celebrated, or being what I call a "D.I.D" (Damsel In Distress, meaning waiting for someone to rescue yo...

Have you ever wanted to meet that one person who will dramatically shift your life to the next level? I know I have. Recently, I have been in a position where I have nothing major occupying my life. Finishing AS levels was great, but I found myself missing in action. I found myself binging on Facebook daily, watching my talented peers showcasing their talent (they know who they are!), making waves and getting connections....and there was me, watching them. So, to make myself feel better, I decided to imagine that if one person in this special setting could meet me, then they could transform my status as a writer and see me for the change I could make... but where is he or she? Clearly, I haven't been looking in the mirror often. Because I would have been seeing her everyday. In this blog entitled, "Kings and Priests", I came to change the thought of waiting for change when change is actually  waiting in you. It is time we looked at seasons we are in and increa...