BETTER IS THE END OF A THING...

It was a Birthday Thanksgiving service of one of our elders in my church. He was celebrating his 70th birthday. You need to see him, he is very much younger than his age (start taking good care of yourself from your youthful age).

On the D-day, he came very early. What marvelled me was the fact that he didn't wait for all his well-wishers that came to celebrate with him, he came all by himself. They came in just right after the praise and worship session. (Lay aside every hindrance of getting late to your place of worship, work or an event. Punctuality is still the soul of business.)

The service commenced, and as expected, the photographer began his work (he is an elderly man; maybe a friend to the celebrant.). Lo and behold, he took out one small old camera and started capturing (its looks was that of the below image but not exactly as it). Personally, I was astonished. "How will one use this type of camera for an event as if it was for personal use?", I thought.

The funniest thing was that I was not the only one at this. As I was looking at different directions, I saw this surprise look on almost everybody especially the youths. As if that was not enough, Baba's position of taking pictures is not from here. So, after the service, we stood in twos and threes to discuss Baba's camera looking forward to seeing the outcome.

Well... surprise! The pictures came in the next Sunday, and you can't believe it was far above our expectations! It wasn't the present professional kind of, but then we don't expect anything other than being blurry. To our surprise, the pictures were clean, clear and coloured (we were actually expecting a whitish kind of pictures where we wouldn't be able to identify those on it).

Later, I began to reason on the event and I realised that "Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof." (Ecclesiastes 7:8a). What you have at hand now might actually be of a small beginning but you have to trust the process; it'll end well. Those pictures must have undergone some processes (laboratory processes) for it to come out that good.

Have you ever watched a race whereby the first person actually started out weak with some fallings here and there? Don't despise your small beginnings; continue at it (Baba was stylishly giving us his different positions without even minding his old camera).

Focus on how your end would be better than your beginning.

Good endings await you.

PS: At a point, I realised that I shouldn't be in the position of making jest of Baba's camera, so, I asked for God's forgiveness (whenever you realised that you have gone wrong, ask for God's forgiveness immediately).

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