Young People Can Now Find Answers To Life’s Questions, A Challenge That Amos Maina Struggled With In His Early Days

I loved books from a young age. I had a desire to write, but being stronger in sciences than languages, it was difficult to do it earlier. However, when I got to University, my experience strengthened this desire but I still didn’t feel ready to write meaningfully. Fast forward at Masters level, I did a unit called postgraduate research and writing, coupled with the many research papers we were required to submit, I got the confidence to go ahead and write my first book.

While doing my undergraduate course and being a young person, I had many questions whose answers i did not find. The case was not unique to me because we would share as colleagues and most of us were searching.

The questions ranged from religious to vocational to relationships and so on. (It is at this age that most young people are grappling with the questions of identity, meaning and destiny: who am I? what am I here for? where am I going? It is here that majority begin thinking about the prospects of marriage and raising up a family someday. Others begin to be conscious about death and eternity. At this stage, many of us are figuring out life, and the significance of getting it right or wrong.

Ministers would come to speak to us during Christian Union meetings and other forums. Some of the speakers were great and it really helped. Other times though, some of them would confuse us even more.

I recall wishing I could have a small booklet that would answer some of those questions that were so mountainous at that point in time.

I carried this burden and i knew that when I could write, my first book would be about looking for answers to some of those questions. The book is written in a simple language with interesting stories. Enjoyable and edifying. More complex theological jargons and views on the various issues discussed are intentionally left out for the purpose of maintaining simplicity, but without compromising on soundness and substance.

Though written with teens and youth in mind, it is not a waste of time for the older folk. Young Christian believers will find it especially useful, in grounding them, as well as a searching non- believer in helping them find God and purpose in life.