Make Your Fortys Old Enough to Know, But Young Enough to Build (Dr. Muthoni Omukhango with Richard Mwebesa, Uganda)

I was in my teens and fully convinced that adulthood was a distant country—somewhere people went after many connecting flights and at least a midlife crisis. I wanted to visit adulthood, yes. Maybe wave at it. Borrow its shoes. But live there permanently? Absolutely not.
 
Welcome to Humour Meets Storytelling Season 2
 
I call this one: Make Your Fortys Old Enough to Know, But Young Enough to Build
 
When forty happened, Yikes! (Pronounced as ‘rikes’ by Scooby-Doo).
 
Forty sounded like a medical condition or a long prison sentence. People in their fortys so7nded and looked old. How do people even arrive there? Slowly? With warning sirens? With a committee meeting?
 
No. I blinked.
Okay, maybe I winked.
And there I was.
A mama in her forties.
Someone’s wife.
Three people’s mother.
Out here signing school forms with authority and buying vegetables in bulk. How now? Surely I was a child just the other day—one growth spurt ago, just ‘one thing’ ago.
 
What nobody told us is that life does not tap you on the shoulder politely and say, “Young one, please proceed to the next stage.” It simply fast-forwards while you’re busy becoming.
 
Somewhere along the way, while I was collecting experiences like fridge magnets—ministry, marriage, motherhood, mistakes, miracles—I received the greatest piece of advice. It came from my former boss, Liz Patten, who credited it to her former boss, Neil Wardrope (because all good wisdom must travel through at least two generations before it becomes official).
 
She said, and I paraphrase to how I understood it:
“At forty, you are experienced enough to know what you’re doing—and energetic enough to actually do something about it.”
 
That sentence sat me down.
 
It explained why my dreams suddenly became bigger and more practical. Why I now dream with my sleeves rolled up. Why vision boards now come with actual to-do lists. I am not just imagining change; I am working hard enough to partner with heaven for it.
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Three Lessons Life Taught Me Somewhere Between the Blink and the Bulk Groceries

 
1. Youth is not wasted on the young—it is invested for the future: Those teenage years I thought were “just vibes” were actually training grounds. Seeds were planted quietly. At forty, you begin harvesting what you once ignored, resisted, or laughed off. I do hope you and I enjoy the harvest with little regrets.
 
2. Experience without energy is nostalgia; energy without experience is chaos. This season is holy balance. You know better, but you still have the strength to build better. Wisdom now has legs—and running shoes.
 
3. Time does not steal life; it reveals stewardship. You realise you are not a passenger. You are the captain. The choices you make daily are steering something precious. No autopilot. No excuses.

Conclusion: Welcome to the Captain’s Deck. Your Deck.

This is where Inspired by Forty by Richard Mwebesa feels less like a book and more like a compass.
 
It is a collection of quotable wisdom—short, sharp, and intentional—written to ignite action, not applause.
 
These are not decorative words. They are directional. The kind that remind you that words can do more than comfort; they can command movement.
 
Like a ship’s radar, these insights help captains—yes, you and I—steer with clarity and conviction. Easy to remember. Simple to revisit. Resoundingly stirring. They help you build inner guidelines that keep you steady on the course you have chosen, even when the waters get loud.
 
At forty, you realise this truth:
You are not drifting.
You are navigating.
So welcome aboard the ship of the insightful.
The captain is awake.
The compass is set.
And the journey—oh, the journey—is just getting good.

Humour Meets Storytelling
with Dr. Muthoni Omukhango

Season 2: 52 Episodes

Hilarously Empowering

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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