Cheer up for Things Could Get Worse!: Looking at the Adventures of Kibonzo

By John Balwigaire

Somewhere along the line, each one of us must experience some kind of adversities, before we can grow up to become mature responsible adults God intended for us to be. After suffering such a devastating rejection from the beautiful girl he loved so dearly, Kibonzos story is intended to help people of all walks of life, but mostly those who have experienced some sort of rejection, to understand how God can use different ways or methods to build a fruitful character in each one of us, which later could be used not only for our own benefits but for all mankind.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jan 15, 2016
• ISBN: 9781514438466

John Balwigaire

John Davidson Balwigaire was born in the Equatorial Land of Sunshine, raised up in the Northern Hemisphere Land of the Midnight Sun, and grew up in the Subtropical Land of opportunity. He is an Engineer, a Landscape Architect, and a child of God. He is also a father of two great young handsome men, a beautiful smart daughter and a Grandfather of two little twin girls.

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Copyright © 2016 by John Balwigaire.

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Contents

Acknowledgement

Introduction

Cheer Up For Things Could Get Worse

1.   My first life experience.

2.   Koko finds a new lover

3.   Mom’s reaction to my problem.

4.   My Dad is offered a job far away from home.

5.   Facing Koko’s rejection.

6.   Mom finds a way to communicate with me.

7.   I beg mom to hear more stories.

8.   I receive spiritual advice from Badu.

9.   At last, I admitted the truth to be always the truth.

10.   Paying a visit to our local town.

11.   Dr. Gambugo speaks about the Christian families.

12.   Dr. Gambugo lays out some important principles to watch.

13.   The Bar tender calls for final request.

14.   My returning back home in total darkness.

15.   Mom reacts to my late return.

16.   Cleaning up for family reunion.

17.   Dad returns home for weekend visit and family reunion.

18.   Arrival of family members.

19.   Dad preparers to return back to work.

20.   The day after reunion party was over.

21.   My friends and I discuss a trip to Gambowa valley.

22.   Preparation for a trip to Gambowa valley.

23.   My final decision to procced on with the trip alone.

24.   My first approach and reaction to Gambowa Valley

25.   My experience at monkey Town.

26.   My close encounter with the napping Lions.

27.   The appearance of the 300 lb. python.

28.   My determination to fight the monster python.

29.   The warthog mistakes the heavy monkey for a lion.

30.   The heavy monkey lands on the back of a Wilder Beast.

31.   The Wilder Beasts swim across the river.

32.   The lonely Wilder Beast loses its life.

33.   Rumors of lions fighting spreads in Bugabogo village.

34.   Mom collapses upon hearing the breaking news of me.

35.   Mom and a group of neighbors prepare for a trip to Gambowa valley.

36.   The group gets to Gambowa valley entrance.

37.   The lions retreat to avoid conflict with the hunters.

38.   The sweetest moment in Mom’s life.

39.   More people join our group to rejoice.

40.   People volunteer to offer helping

hands and material things.

41.   Dad arrives home after along none stop drive.

42.   Mr. Mafuta Mingi goes to jail.

43.   Koko returns back to make a formal apology.

44.   End of the party and people’s return back to work.

45.   Mr. Sweet Mambazo, prepares for the big catch.

46.   Dad prepares to return back to work again.

47.   Mr. Sweet Mambazo, surprises my family with his big catch.

48.   Koko asks her parents to spend Christmas with us.

49.   Mr. Mambazo receives God’s last promise fulfilled.

50.   Badu joins the Theological Institute.

51.   Conclusion:

BOOK DEDICATION

I DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO ALL MY GRAND CHILDREN.

THOSE WHO ARE HERE AT PRESENT,

AND THOSE TO COME.

IN FUTURE.

Acknowledgement

First of all, I would like acknowledge the ‘Holy Spirit’ of God, for all the inspiration and guidance I received from Him, not only to produce this book, but also His sense of humor and working through my publisher to keep on reminding me to get the work done. Without Him, it would have been impossible for me to accomplish this work and see the end result. Thank You Holy Spirit you are my best friend. Also, I would like to thank my publishing consultant Donna Traz for her utmost encouragement to get this story completed. Without her consistent effort to remind me with e-mails and phone calls to keep on working and get this work completed I would not have realized the dream of publishing this book.

BY

JOHN DAVIDSON BALWIGAIRE

Introduction

The journey of life, is like a learning Institution. We all start from the basics as little babies and as time goes by we develop into mature men and women. In the development process however, little by little we face new challenges as we grow older every single day that goes by. Some days are great and filled with all kinds of excitements. However, somedays can be really rough and tough, filled with different forms of obstacles and complicated challenges. Which then leads us to one of the most important principles of life. That is, Each one of us, rich or poor, King or common, Male or Female, both young and old, as longer as we live in this world filled with all sorts of surprises and miseries, somewhere along the line, must experience some kinds of adversities before we can grow up and become mature responsible adults God intended for us to be. Therefore, how we react, and handle those problems, is always crucial to the determination of our future growth and developments in life.

Kibonzo’s life started out like most of us in a home of loving parents where he developed into a young and strong adult man, always looking forward to learning something new from his Dad. However, after developing such a strong bond with his father who was the chief mentor in his life, he found himself facing his first challenge when his father left him at home with his mother, to take a job offer which was so far away from home. Even though his father loved to spend time with his family every weekend, but due to such a long distance from home, that job only allowed him to return home one weekend a month, to pay a visit to his family. Of course this created a lot of stress within the family and great confusion mainly for Kibonzo whose life was so much focused, and depended a lot upon his father for all things he did. As such, his communication with his mother was very shallow as he spent most of the time with his father. So in order to maintain a sense of security, he turned to his best friends Duma and Badu who were also still young at that time, and not able to provide him with concrete instructional wisdom.

To make matters worse, Kibonzo prematurely fall in love with the most beautiful girl in Bugabogo village, who was very much desired by every young man in the village. Walking around with the most popular girl in the village made Kibonzo like many of us, the most proud guy in the village, to a point of being hated almost by all young guys in the village. Unfortunately, though Kibonzo’s dreams for his beautiful girl was to get married in future and have a family of his own, that love did not last long enough to fulfill those dreams. And for the first time, Kibonzo was facing his second worsted fear of every human being. Besides death which commonly terrifies every human being, Kibonzo was facing a rejection. If you have for some reason experienced any form of rejection in your life, I am sure you know what I am talking about, and without any trace of doubt you can relate to Kibonzo’s story.

First of all, Kibonzo was still very young boy and basically knew nothing about love. Secondly, he had no job to provide for the needs of such an attractive and beautiful girl in the village. Thirdly, he had no place for himself to stay in, as he was still living under the protective roof of his family. The bottom line is, Kibonzo was still a child. Therefore, with all those disadvantages, the odds of losing his dream girl were very high.

I don’t want to reveal so much to you now, however, if you want find out how that young man handled the entire situation and the outcome of his final adventures, please read on, and enjoy the Kibonzo’s story. I am positive you will both cry and lough at the same time as I did.

Cheer Up For Things Could Get Worse

My first life experience.

The day we are born, we come into a world filled with love and confusion at the same time, and life becomes a journey on a road we travel. Most of us, our journey starts out as a gift of life to our parents, and the path a head of us appears to be totally unmistakable. However, as time goes by, the route we take turns out to be bumpy and our circumstances take different turns that are unexpected and confusing.

That is exactly what happened to me on September 25th 1984, when the majestic figure eight dream girl of my life, made a u turn, and embraced a change of heart that left me alone and totally devastated on bumpy road for her new lover. Her name was Evelyn Koko, the most beautiful girl I ever met in our Bugabogo