DO YOU KNOW HOW TO SWIM?

There is a season of one thousand days of my life that I will have to write a story about one day. One day in this season I happened to be at a distant relatives home. She is a widow who had just buried her husband and was in the process of completing her house so we went to assist her build. We worked as we listened to a sermon that has never gone off my mind- yet I was not born again then. This preacher who I can not even remember his name preached a sermon entitled 'Do you know how to swim?' in flawless dholuo that kept my ears glued to the cassette player.

He told a story of an Economics Professor from the U.S.A who went for a conference in India. He had to cross the Ganges River at some point so he hired a boat to take him across. He harassed the man with questions about globalization, world economic trends and big talk about the economics he knew. This Indian man kept telling him that all he knew was the river and his boat. Then all of a sudden the boat capsized and every man was left to his own means of survival. The Indian man swam across to the other side then saw his client pop out of the water then slip back in quick successions. He jumped into the river, rescued him then gave him first aid.

When the Professor came to, he reminded him of all the big talk he had told him earlier. Then he asked him the big question- Do you know how to swim?

The preacher went ahead to explain how we are becoming an information minded people, who do not know the simple things in life. One of the simple things he said is knowing Christ, who will help you know how to swim through the tough times of life. He said how our society is decaying yet more and more people are getting an education which does not teach about values.

You are an IT, Law, Sports, Environmental or Finance expert, but do you know how to swim?


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