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In one of my home visits shortly before Dad died, my father was in the house, in bed complaining bitterly about pains on his legs and in fact the whole body. I was in the workshop, tidying up Moses Onah’s blacksmithing tools. As I handle the scissors used in holding hoes, I thought about the wonderful things my father had made with it. Though the workshop was next to the house, which my sister has converted to temporary kitchen now, I knew that my father would never enjoy the rigorous hoe making process again, never again hold the tools that he was so skilled at using. That time was past.

I thought of the scripture at Ecclesiastes 9:10: “All that your hands finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in shoel [the grave], the place to which you are going.” I knew that scripture very well. In fact, I had used it many times when teaching others the Bible truth that death is a state of inactivity. Now the force of Solomon’s argument struck my heart – We should live life fully and enjoy our days while we can because the time will come when we are no longer able to do so.

As I was about putting away the last tool from Moses Onah’s workshop because he told me that he had not worked for long. What he was surviving from then was buying already made hoes and sell them to make income. I thought about these things. I also thought about all the people I knew at Umuaguru village and Ibagwa Nkwo as a whole, who tried to make the best of their lives but who did not find happiness because they had no relationship with their creator. How fitting that we shall all remember this scripture vividly in our minds all the time: “The conclusion of the matter, everything having been heard is: Fear the true God and keep his commandments. For this is the whole obligation of man.” Eccl. 12: 13.

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Alien wrote:In one of my home visits shortly before Dad died, my father was in the house, in bed complaining bitterly about pains on his legs and in fact the whole body. I was in the workshop, tidying up Moses Onah’s blacksmithing tools. As I handle the scissors used in holding hoes, I thought about the wonderful things my father had made with it. Though the workshop was next to the house, which my sister has converted to temporary kitchen now, I knew that my father would never enjoy the rigorous hoe making process again, never again hold the tools that he was so skilled at using. That time was past.

I thought of the scripture at Ecclesiastes 9:10: “All that your hands finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in shoel [the grave], the place to which you are going.” I knew that scripture very well. In fact, I had used it many times when teaching others the Bible truth that death is a state of inactivity. Now the force of Solomon’s argument struck my heart – We should live life fully and enjoy our days while we can because the time will come when we are no longer able to do so.

As I was about putting away the last tool from Moses Onah’s workshop because he told me that he had not worked for long. What he was surviving from then was buying already made hoes and sell them to make income. I thought about these things. I also thought about all the people I knew at Umuaguru village and Ibagwa Nkwo as a whole, who tried to make the best of their lives but who did not find happiness because they had no relationship with their creator. How fitting that we shall all remember this scripture vividly in our minds all the time: “The conclusion of the matter, everything having been heard is: Fear the true God and keep his commandments. For this is the whole obligation of man.” Eccl. 12: 13.