December 25, 2025 / CLC Kenya / 0 Comments

A Village Girl, a City Boy, and the Blessing of Forgiveness (Dr. Muthoni Omukhango with Samuel Mwinamo Asena, Kenya)

I was in my late twenties and freshly married—barely a year in, already feeling like marriage had enrolled us into an intensive course on Letting Go 101. A village girl and a city boy under one roof. Men! Did we not have differences? We did. From how tea should be brewed to how silence should be interpreted. We had to reconcile, and then reconcile our reconciliations.
 
Welcome to Humour Meets Storytelling Season 2
 
 
I call this one: A Village Girl, a City Boy, and the Blessing of Forgiveness
 
That first year demanded that we loosen our grip on old histories and consciously build new traditions for our family. Love had brought us together, yes—but love alone was not enough to keep us standing. Forgiveness became our daily bread. Not the dramatic kind that announces itself, but the quiet, stubborn kind that chooses peace over pride.
 
Eventually, we found our footing. And I have never stopped emphasising the importance of premarital counselling—and even more so, couples’ fellowship after the wedding. Because marriage does not break in public moments; it strains in private spaces where grace is either practised or postponed.
 
The best gift we gave each other was forgiveness.
 
And on this day, that truth rises again in my spirit. Ultimate forgiveness did not arrive with noise or threats. God wrapped it in vulnerability. Heaven’s answer to humanity’s mess was not a policy statement—it was a baby.
 
The Messiah came crying, dependent, interruptible. Forgiveness took on flesh and moved into the neighbourhood. God chose approachability over intimidation. Mercy over spectacle.
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Three Quiet Lessons from the Manger (and the Marriage Table)

1. Forgiveness Is a Blessing Before It Is a Behaviour: Long before it fixes relationships, forgiveness steadies the heart. Like marriage, it is received before it is perfected.
 
2. The Ordinary Carries the Divine: A baby. A home. A conversation. A choice to let go. God consistently hides His greatest work in familiar places.
 
3. What Is Given Must Be Used Well: Forgiveness hoarded turns into bitterness. Grace unused becomes weight. Blessings are entrusted, to be distributed to others.
 

A Book That Names What We Often Miss

These reflections echo powerfully in Blessed to be a Blessing by Asena Samuel Mwinamo.
 
In this thoughtful work, the author gently dismantles the idea that blessing is rare, elite, or dramatic. He draws our attention to what we already possess—life, breath, relationships, capacity—and reframes them as miracles hiding in plain sight.
 
The book challenges readers to recognise that blessings can be misused, that misuse carries consequences, and that blessing others is not optional but essential. Whether believer or not, one is confronted with a simple, searching question: What am I doing with what I already have?
 
Like the baby in the manger and forgiveness in a young marriage, the book reminds us that blessing is not merely something to enjoy. It is something to steward. And when we choose to employ it for the good of others, we discover—almost to our surprise—that grace multiplies on the way out.
 
 

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with Dr. Muthoni Omukhango

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Meet Dr. MO

Dr. Muthoni Omukhango is a Christian publisher, author, and marketplace minister with a storyteller’s eye and a theologian’s backbone. She serves as the National Director of CLC Kenya, part of a global mission dedicated to making Christian literature accessible so that lives may be shaped, families strengthened, and faith rooted deeply in everyday living.

Through Humour Meets Storytelling, Dr. Omukhango writes from lived experience—ministry missteps, family moments, awkward holy encounters, and quiet victories…

—serving them with clean humour, African colour, and gentle spiritual insight. Her stories do not shout doctrine; they invite reflection. They do not scold; they smile, then linger. Each piece is anchored in Scripture, even when the verse is not announced, drawing readers to recognise God at work in ordinary, sometimes ridiculous, moments.

As the convener of the African Christian Authors Book Award (ACABA) and the founder of Mama Africa Book Box, she is deeply invested in raising readers, writers, and thinking believers across generations. When she is not publishing or mentoring authors, you will likely find her in a garden or library, plus-size and unbothered, sisterlocks in place, telling stories that remind us that God is both holy and wonderfully humorous.

Humour Meets Storytelling is her way of saying: faith is serious—but it does not have to be stiff.

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𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐠𝐞, 𝐚𝐬 𝐆𝐨𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝, 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞. Adam (male) and Eve (female). And before anyone starts a theological debate about how Eve messed things up for Adam and, by extension, all of us—another discussion for another day, please. The principle remains: 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐧, 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧.

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