Catch the moment ...

My Canon camera just died on me. First it was my Twinhead; then my car engine; now my camera.



So we bought a new camera. Now my daughter just dropped her mobile phone into a swimming pool. I thought if we were to buy a new camera, we would need to get one that is shock proof and water proof. So we got a Panasonic Lumix DMC FT1. Honestly the quality of the picture was not as good as my previous Canon. But we need a camera. We need a camera to capture the laughters that are slipping pass our hand, the tears that are drying, the sights that are fleeing, the friendship that will "move on" and "move away", and the moments that become more and more blur in our memory by the second.

We need a camera to capture the last few days we spend here before we move on; we need a camera to seize the warmth of friendship, the appreciation of our friends and colleagues, the prayer of our brothers and sisters from the church, the jokes of our usual coffee-shop kaki's, ....

There is so much to catch up with before we move on, so much to capture before it vanishes in the depths of our memory; so much to savour before it fades away, and so much to praise and thank God for before we forget.

And prayerfully, when we see these same pictures, the laughters will ring back from yesteryear to flood our eyes with tears again; the joy will spill out to cheer us again, the friendship will be rekindled to warm our hearts again, and the praises will ring out from our mouths to our God once again.

Yes, to praise God for friends, for family, for relatives, for our colleagues, for our brothers and sisters in church.

And most of all, to praise God for leading us on this journey of the last 15 years.

Yes, thank God for this 15 years.