Grain Of Sands Sparknotes

The story of Grains of Sands is a fabulous story of a man named Benson M. Karanja. Leaving Kenya at the age of 35 years old, Dr. Karanja faced many ups and downs to end up being the president of the Beulah Heights bible college. Dr. Karanja’s journey throughout this book demonstrates the parable of faithfulness, obedience and humility. His character through difficulties and hard time as properly shows his ability of leadership. A model by his faith and educational achievements, Dr. Benson Karanja wrote this book to inspire young Christians who also aspire for greater achievements.
Reading this book, I found a lot of common point with Dr. Karanja. Beside that we both come from Africa, when I came to the United States I knew nobody. I was living in apartment with roommates that a barely talked to. I was mostly afraid to talk to
Karanja explained something that took my attention and also made me sad. Back in Kenya, Dr. Karanja was a successful businessman, he was phenomenal doing agriculture. His wife and kid were in well condition until he decided to come to the U.S to have a degree. At first he was quite excited to come to the U.S even though he didn’t really realize the necessity to have a degree since he was already a businessman. However, coming at the U.S with a student visa, he rapidly found that he was not able to work, besides doing some quick job as servant in a fast food restaurant. This was so unbelievable to me. How can a businessman, who affords to travel with all his family to the U.S ended up being poor? The saddest point is that he couldn’t work at all because he was a foreign with only a student visa and an I-20, and even if he could’ve worked, he didn’t have any degree for a high paid job. Even though he found after an internship at Beulah Heights Bible College, he was not able to provide for his family even the basic things. Some of his friend at Beulah helped him by buying for his kids and wife some clothes for the