ANOTHER KING, ALREADY CROWNED IS COMING!

ONE OF THE BEST photos of Her Majesty the Queen that I have come across for some time.    This week-end celebrates her Diamond Jubilee, sixty years as  Head of State of the United Kingdom, and the Commonwealth.    I was still eleven years old when she was Proclaimed, thirteen by the time she was Crowned.     My uncle RENTED a TV so that his family, including me, could watch the Ceremony.    AMAZING.   She has not changed her mind, broken her promises, deserted her duty in all the years.     She has seen change, seen others depart from what she continues to stand for.......but she remains determined to uphold what she has believed in from the onset of her Reign.     MANY have come and gone in Government of the United Kingdom, all with diverse views and opinions.   But SHE has remained as a bulwark against change........but the pressure has been growing against her, and against what she has stood for.
Perhaps she will be the LAST to rule a United Kingdom; the last of her forbears; the last of those called to do their Duty.  Not everyone recognises her worth!
We should honour her example and leadership under God.
I believe she has worked consistently and faithfully to fulfil her Coronation Vows both to God and to her People.     She has been a source of moral strength in herself even when manipulated by the terms of our Constitution to sign that morality away.     As a Constitutional Monarch she remains, though often the 'tool' of a befuddled democratic electorate, unblemished or sullied by any suggestion of ungodliness or hypocrisy.
For the most part devalued by the proletariat,  she might not be missed; might pass away unnoticed into uncertain history.     But I say today, with honest conviction and Thanksgiving 'GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!'.

YESTERDAY, Friday 1st June, was MADARAKA DAY, here in Kenya. a memorable National Holiday.  National and Provincial Parades in Nairobi and the major cities of the Republic.      What is so important about this Day?   It is the Day on which initial Internal Self Rule was granted to Kenya - the prelude to JAMHURI DAY when Kenya would become totally independent as a Nation, and free of the Colonial Government of the United Kingdom.  (on 12th December, 1963).      It is a very special Day.    The Day when Kenya came of Age, and the one to become Kenya's Head of State would no longer be the Queen but a man called Jomo Kenyatta, the 1st President of the Republic of Kenya.       A powerful and charismatic personality and statesman.   A colourful man, a man who could be ruthless in getting what he wanted.   A man to be feared.  

TODAY Kenya's Head of State is the 3rd President of the Republic, the Honourable Mwai Kibaki, now in his eighties, and soon to hand over to the one who will be the 4th President, God Willing.    Elections are expected to take place in March next year.      A lot of pomp and colour throughout Kenya therefore was expected and realised once again this year on the 49th Madaraka Day!    But the Day was peaceful and quiet.     But Kenya is also a Member of the Commonwealth of Nations and honours Her Majesty as its Figurehead.      The link remains, and there is still a very respectful interest toward the Queen of England.

IN TESTIMONY FAITH HOMES, all is continuing by the Grace of God.        The little girl that had been kidnapped, though safely restored to her family, has not yet returned to class.   Her brother is still with us, but her mother felt it good to keep her at home this last week - she is expected to come now on Monday next week.     Finally no parents re-acted un-towardly, and no children have been removed for fear of their safety with us.    We have made a few changes in relation to how parents drop and pick up their children, and we shall ourselves be putting up two or three cameras to increase protective surveillance.     Otherwise all remains the same.   The Bakery still baking bread, but not yet making general provision; this last week has been one of experimentation with various ingredients.    We now feel we are ready to start in earnest.  The chickens continue to lay, the cows continue to give milk, and the vegetables are growing well - the hale seeming to have given up.       AND it is GOOD that all of this largess has gone on producing food for us all since we had arrived at a distinctly difficult moment by last week, when I last wrote.     Funds generally had been dwindling, and by May 21st we had nothing in hand.     THEN on the 22nd we had word that at least some funds had been sent to us.......but they did not materialise, and we heard that the Bank had somehow lost sight of the transaction, and that there might be a delay.   There was, and we finally received hard cash at the Bank on 30th May.      Times like that, thought there have been many of them over the years, are often unnerving.   These nine days were not easy ones!  We could not have paid our way with food at all without the new projects we have begun, and even with them other matters had to go unpaid............ Creditors are quick to demand what is due to them.    I guess one can't blame them since in the main they are not living by faith themselves¬!!    BUT we also Thank all those, including Her Majesty's Inland Revenue, that God moved to help us.   We are Blessed.

Every Blessing be yours in Jesus Name during this coming week.   We send YOU our love and prayers as always, out of full hearts
John and Esther