December 27, 2025 / CLC Kenya / 0 Comments

God Uses Your Pain Story to Answer Someone Else’s Prayer (Dr. Muthoni Omukhango with Zinhle Ramashala, South Africa)

It was 2013. I was expectant with our second-born, and for once—for once—life was finally making sense after a short stinct of single motherhood. I had being there and done ‘all’ that!
 
Welcome to Humour Meets Storytelling Season 2
 
I call this one: God Uses Your Pain Story to Answer Someone Else’s Prayer
 
Marriage? Settling nicely.
Parenting? Learning on the job.
Homeschooling? Brave but hopeful.
Business consultancy? Thriving.
 
I had mentally scheduled a quiet burial for The Past. No speeches. No mourners. Just a neat, respectable grave somewhere behind me.
 
Then God cleared His throat. He was about to hand me a hoe and spade instead of a comfort blanket. So He spoke.
 
Not softly.
Not politely.
Loud. Clear. Inconvenient.
 
“Write a book for single parents.”
 
I laughed. Properly laughed.
Surely You have the wrong number, Lord.
 
I had just started breathing again, and here He was—handing me a hoe and spade, asking me to dig up things I had carefully wrapped in emotional polythene and labelled Do Not Open.
 
Honestly, what is it with God and timing? 😄
 
I was not interested.
The past should remain… past.
 
But then Scripture betrayed me. You know the one—the one that says we comfort others with the same comfort we ourselves have received. I wish I had missed that verse. Skipped it. Blinked. But no. I had seen it. And once you see truth, it refuses to be unseen by you.
 
So I delayed.
 
Not for days.
Not for months.
For eight whole years.
 
Not because the book was complex or academic. No. It was slow because it was therapy. Sentence by sentence, God was healing me—so that He could use me to help heal others.
 
When the book was finally done, I launched it in November 2020. And in the year and a half that followed, I walked with over 300 single mothers (and yes—two brave single dads).
 
That, dear reader, is God’s pattern.
 
He never wastes pain.
He repurposes it.
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Three Lessons from the Hoe-and-Spade Season

1. God Never Asks for Your Past to Shame You—Only to Serve Others: What you survived is not a secret to guard; it is a seed to plant. God does not exhume wounds for drama—He does it for deliverance.
 
2. Delayed Obedience Is Still Costly, Even When It’s Understandable: Eight years taught me this: you can postpone the assignment, but you cannot cancel it. Grace will wait, but purpose will persist.
 
3. Healing Often Comes Through Obedience, Not Avoidance: I thought I needed healing before writing. God knew writing was the healing. Sometimes the pen is the prescription.

From My Story to Zinhle’s Story

This is why the book His Story, My Life by Zinhle Ramashala of Arise and Shine Heirs Centre resonates so deeply with this journey.
 
Her story is not presented as a performance, but as a living room conversation—honest, courageous, and deeply human. She invites the reader into her world with vivid storytelling that celebrates rural beauty, confronts injustice, and gently but firmly addresses wounds many prefer to keep hidden.
 
What makes this book powerful is not just its transparency, but its balance. In a time when conversations around gender, pain, and empowerment can easily tip into extremes, Zinhle anchors her narrative in Kingdom truth—using God’s Word as the premise, not an afterthought.
 
This is not a book you rush through. It is one you sit with. One that can be read privately, discussed in book clubs, used by ministers, couples, families, and counselors alike. It carries the kind of message that does not entertain wounds—but heals them.
 
Much like my own journey, His Story, My Life reminds us that when God asks us to revisit the past, it is not to trap us there—but to turn it into a bridge for others.
 
So do not hide your wounds.
Lay them before Him.
He is exceptionally good at making meaning out of what once made no sense.

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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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