The World We Live In...

On Monday, about an hour before I got to the area of the market, two deaths had happened there. It seems that these two men that were killed who were known murderers and they were finally caught. So the public took it upon themselves to punish these to men.

They found them, caught them and in broad daylight, in the middle of the afternoon, in the middle of town, they put tires over their bodies to around their hips with the hands trapped inside the tires against their bodies, dumped kerosene on them and lit a match.

Then they burned the two men to death.

In the middle of the street, people: men, women AND children, cheered for the burning alive death of these two men. This is the world I live in…

On Tuesday, one of our grocery stores was robbed at gun point in broad daylight, 30 minutes after my dear friend Eva and her mom LEFT the grocery store. Praise the Lord they were not in there at the time.

On Wednesday, a store next to our other grocery store was rubbed at gun point as well.

This is the world we live in…

The presidential elections are being held December 27th. This is a fairly high dangerous/rioting time in the country, the election year. This election year, unfortunately has brought a lot of the “tribalism” back in to Kenya.

The worst time will be the few weeks leading up to the elections and the day after the election when the president is named. We have already discussed the possibility of having lock-down in our compound at that time.

There are promises to free the country of corruption; promises to better the lives of Kenyans; promises to remove poverty from the country. Broken promises, broken hearts.

This is the world we live in.