In a quiet corner of Enugu, there was an elderly man who repaired clocks. His small shop was filled with ticking sounds. Big clocks. Small clocks. Old clocks that most people had given up on. One afternoon, a young graduate entered the shop looking discouraged. After a long job search, nothing seemed to be working out. As he waited, he watched the old man carefully repairing a clock that had stopped working. The graduate asked, "Why spend so much time fixing one old clock when you could just replace it?" The repairer smiled. Then he held up the clock. "Because sometimes, something isn't broken. It's just out of rhythm." The young man paused. The old man continued. "People are like that too. We all have seasons when things don't move the way we planned. It doesn't mean our purpose has stopped." Those words stayed with the graduate. Months later, he finally secured a job. Looking back, he realized the old man was right. Many people quit too early because they mistake delay for failure. They assume that because progress has slowed, nothing good is happening. But growth often happens quietly. Opportunities often arrive later than expected. And sometimes life simply requires patience while things fall into place. The clock repairer wasn't just fixing machines. He was preserving time. And unknowingly, he had helped repair someone's hope. Have you ever experienced a delay that later turned out to be a blessing in disguise?
