[kictanet] Is everyone okay?

[Eric Osiakwan]

Makes the morning a lot healthier and the day brighter with the freeing of hostages and the Military taking control of Westgate pushing back 'the gate of evil' -- they would be overcomed.....

Eric here 

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On Sep 23, 2013, at 6:35, Bitange Ndemo <bitange at jambo.co.ke> wrote:

> Eric,
> I am sorry for what has happened to our Ghanaian brothers.  News comes in
> in bits and every bit of it angers and leads to bitterness.  I pray that
> God will help us forgive these senseless killers.
> 
> I just came across a quote from Anne Frank which is descriptive and so
> wise for the moment.  She writes:  'It really is a wonder that I have not
> dropped all my ideals,because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry
> out.  Yet I keep them because in spite of everything I still believe that
> people are really good at heart  I simply can't build up my hopes on a
> foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world
> gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching
> thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions
> and yet, if I look up to the heavens, I think that it will all come right,
> that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return
> agaiin.'
> 
> She was only 16 when she died, but she had such a beautiful commitment to
> hope.
> 
> This morning a friend wrote to me and she said.  There has been such a
> negativity among good people in discussions that all of this negative
> energy has to have an effect on people who are really confused and opt for
> violence.  I was heartened to hear the latest comments of the Pope.  Every
> bit helps.
> 
> God bless us all.
> 
> 
> Ndemo.
> 
> 
>> Among the dead was renowned Ghanaian poet and statesmen Kofi Awoonor.
>> Ghanaian poet Awoonor, 78, who was once his country's representative to
>> the United Nations, was killed while shopping with his son, who was
>> injured in the attack, Ghanaian officials said......very sad but the
>> forces of evil would not prevail.
>> 
>> Eric here
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On Sep 22, 2013, at 21:41, Bitange Ndemo <bitange at jambo.co.ke> wrote:
>> 
>>> Warigia,
>>> We lost a CCK director, Mr. Simani in the tragedy.  Very sad to have
>>> lost
>>> a great Lawyer.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Ndemo.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Just seeing if all kictanet members are okay in Westgate shooting,
>>>> especially alice, who I know goes there often.
>>>> 
>>>> Rigia
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