Kenya is at a crossroads and we the people are terrified. That is why we lash out at each other at the slightest hint of provocation. It is not really hate that is so pervasive on social media. It is fear. Fear of the unknown that expresses itself as hate for the Other.
We know that what we have is not really working, at least not for the vast majority of us. We are lost, but we have no one to show us our way home. We are in a dark place and we dare not take another step forward lest we fall into the abyss.
So, in our paralysis, we continue calling each other names in the dark, instead of reaching for one another's hand and feeling our way together, however tentatively, forward until we find the light of day.
But we are in a kairos moment for our nation. A moment of rebirth and we must summon up the courage to push until the new Kenya is born.
However, we must be careful. For there are all manner of people pretending to be midwives but whose actual motive is to carry out Pharaoh's orders to snuff out the new life before it takes its first breath.
So, let us beware of the custodians of the old order - the politicians, the diplomats, some church leaders, business people, civil society - who are desperate to hide from us the fact that we are at a moment of rebirth and who would substitute a version of the old Kenya for the new one we so long for.
The old is truly dying; the new is being born. Do not just stand there. Come and join in the final push so that you, too, may become an eyewitness to the miracle of our rebirth.
Change is coming.
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