Thought Cycle

Today I attended the 24 hour Picha Mtaani photo exhibition at the Hilton arcade. I was on my way to a meeting. But I thought why not pass by and see what Boniface Mwangi, the CNN photojournalist of the year award winner 2008, had to offer. Least to say, I cried at the sight of the pictures. It was a photo exhibition of the 2007 election campaigns and the post election atrocity.

I had seen similar photos on the post election atrocity in the ‘Kenya Burning’ exhibition. But the photos Boniface took just hit a raw nerve. I was not looking at Rwanda or Kosovo or Sri Lanka. I was looking at Kenyans baying for each other’s blood. What shocked me, was when one of the organizers told me that some observes at the exhibition could identify the accomplices and the victims in the pictures, it was real.

As I walked along to see all the photos I heard one person say ‘Tuchanukeni bana’ (Let’s get our act together) and I thought yes, finally we are there. It’s all about the thought process. Think and then say it will be beautiful, and it will be so.

In the book of James 3:6 the human tongue is defined as a fire. And it has the ability to corrupt and sets a whole course of life on fire, a fire set by hell itself (paraphrased). It’s just dawned on me how important it really is to set all thoughts captive and obedient to God because from that abundance that my heart will speak, I can either contribute to healing this great land or destroying it further. If you look at the tools to help us deal with our addictions, it shows you just how extensive the patterns of our thoughts spread in our lives. We need to renew our minds daily. It’s not just to help ourselves but others.