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You are back home Tai,
You are back home Tai,
You are back home Tai,
Forever.

You are back home Tai,
You are back home Tai,
You are back home Tai,
Forever.

God's love caught up with you,
God's love caught up with you,
God's love caught up with you,
Finally.

God's love caught up with you,
God's love caught up with you,
God's love caught up with you,
Finally.

And you are back home Tai,
You are back home Tai.
You are back home Tai,
Forever.

You are back home Tai,
You are back home Tai,
You are back home Tai,
Forever.

God' beauty caught up with you,
God's beauty caught up with you,
God's beauty caught up with you,
At last.


Now you are back home Tai,
You are back home Tai,
You are back home Tai,
Forever.


You are back home Tai,
You are back home Tai,
You are back home Tai,
Forever.

Dear Tai

Dear Tai,

I still can’t believe that you are gone. Yes, you are gone too soon. I can’t imagine that I won’t see you growing up and getting married and having kids. It’s all just unbelievable. I never in my wildest dreams thought that you would die, and die so young that is. You were so beautiful; you were amazing and utterly wonderful. I know that I didn’t grow up much with you, and that makes it all the more amazing-that in the brief moments God gave me with you, they were wonderful, and never wasted moments. I don’t know if you know that you were the only person I felt comfortable being absolutely honest with? You are one of the few people who saw the big dilemma that so often plagues my life…

Oh I can’t believe that you are gone? Why now? Why so soon?

It’ll take a long time for me to accept that you will no longer be there with me. Look at our lives Tai, how it’s been apart and the together and then apart again. I can’t imagine that the next time I’ll ever be able to see you, is when I breathe my last breath on earth. I can’t believe that you no longer breathe. You are not alive Tai, you are not alive…..

It’s so surreal, everything. Who would’ve thought the most beautiful of people would be the first to leave, who would’ve thought???







Truly, God’s beauty and love chased after you every day of your life,







And now you are back home in the house of God for the rest of your life. Psalm 23 The Message.
















When you died, I died too. And from then God has been living my life for me, I’m no longer living. I’m not happy, I’m joyful.

Tai, The Beautiful One

Tai,
The most beautiful person I knew
I never knew anyone who loved God like you did
Who passionately pursued him daily
You loved God with all your heart
And now that you are with Him
You truly are where you always belonged

My journey with you began twenty years ago
When we were both young
And death was foreign to all of us
We parted ways more than we joined
You left to live in Nairobi,
And I, in Eldoret
When our paths joined again,
It was as if we had never parted
Tai and Chero
Together again

I never knew you as Carol or Chemu
And you never knew me as Miriam
You are my only friend who calls me ‘Chero’
You are the only one who truly knows where I come from
Yes Tai, you are still alive
I can’t imagine my world without you.

Yet you are gone from me,
Your spirit is set free from this flesh
I grew up with you
And I was supposed to die with you
I wish I were there with you when you left
I wish I could have hugged you one last time
No, hugging you at the airport was not enough
I wish I could have embraced you one last time.

Tai,
You told me once that I wouldn’t wake up tomorrow
And everything would be okay
And I know that it’s going to be hard
For all of us
But if there’s one thing you taught me
One thing that I will never forget
Is to trust God
And to trust that in His time
He will make all things beautiful
Fly my beautiful one
Fly and be set free
I can’t imagine my eternity without you.