This chiming wall clock, in our cottage bought in 1962 stopped functioning ten years ago. The repairing was not possible in spite of our earnest efforts as technicians were no more familiar with mechanical clocks. Even those older technicians who used to attend on such clocks refused to attempt as spare parts were not available.
About a month ago, we came across a watch shop of sales and service which sold the clock to my parents. The shop owner remembered the clock from a label of the shop that was intact on the bottom of the front of the clock. He accepted the clock to restore, if at all it was possible.
Now the clock is back on our wall where it was hanging earlier, for last three weeks. It functions well and chymes every half an hour. Its manual winding once a week keeps it functional.
A silent clock now chimes!
Its restoration takes us to a new perspective to consider!
Its silence was broken by one who cared to make it chime!
It is the intent and interest that would make difficult things possible!
For me it was an encouragement because helping a child waylaid with a developmental challenge to move forward is difficult! But there are prospects and possibilities in every situation!
The shop owner revived the clock what others thought was dead and a scrap to be discarded!
I salute him for the vision that he carries in his life. He believed in the robustness of the clock. He thought it had life left in it!
That is a call to see opportunity and opening in every situation, however difficult it might appear outwardly!
I offer this flower of greetings to the watch shop owner and people like him, who see prospects of hope in every difficult situation!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
And well done to you for rekindling his abilities that he probably thought he had lost. It is this belief in each other that keeps the world ticking, like the clock. Wishing you happy times ahead.
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