Missed Opportunities

Have you had that moment when you felt and say to yourself, "if I had this or that with me?" It is the moment in your life when you experience something beautiful, but such experience would have been so much better if you had bought that thing, a camera where you can record and freeze the wonderful moment.

It happened to me twice in a row the last couple of days. I had a great moment to take some beautiful sunrise and a remarkable event, but I do not have my baby with me, a canon 30d. However, I still have recorded both events with the camera attached to my 2-year old motorola mobile phone.

An early morning drive to my office, I chance upon a beautiful sunrise along the roads of Al Ain City to the horizons of the Buraimi boarder. I drove slowly and finally pulled over to gaze upon that beautiful skies. I gnashed my teeth for a second and blame myself not bringing my camera.

Just not to miss that beautiful skies, I suddenly pulled my mobile phone. Set the cam to underexpose by about 2 stops in order not to blow out the highlights caused by the sun. Click it goes and I froze that moment and sharing it with you herein.

I hope that by sharing this photo, I had you feeling as if you were there at the scene. However limited the camera I have got, I hope I had done justice to that very beautiful sunrise.

Today, I missed another chance to photograph the events that transpired during the celebration of the Ladies' Ministry of Word International - Al Ain. The event just slipped my mind and again left my camera at home.

What a lovely presentation the Ladies had this afternoon. They had dramatized the lives of some very important women characters of the Bible.

An improvised spotlight, an ingenuity of our dear Pastor Edward, made my day. Seeing the contrast of the scenes, the shadows and contrasts plus the colorful costumes of the characters made me cringe upon my failure to bring my camera.

What can you expect a meager camera from a 2-year old phone can do. It is so evident by the image on the left. But, what else could I do. I do not have my baby that time.

Thank God for giving me brain that can store the wonderful scenes of the Ladies' presentation. Plus the fact that I could always review them by reading the printed words of God, the Holy Bible.

After all, it was not totally a missed opportunity. Still I was able to pull it off and make do with whatever resources I have at hand.

A good lesson learned here. Nothing in this world that is reliable. Only God is reliable, nothing else.