At a dinner in Ottawa last week, the fellow next to me and I were discussing an issue of social justice. He was interested in a reference I made to an African author. Out popped my phone and in seconds I accessed the article from my “cloud” of files and he was reading it.  The magic of whatever cloud storage method you may use is still amazing to me – invisible, accessible, portable, and enormous capacity.

The rhythmic crunch of my feet on the gravel road was my musical companion as I walked. One step followed another – a lot like life. We often walk alone, sometimes ahead as leaders and frequently alongside as friends and companions.

The sounds of Stevie Wonder’s album from 40 years ago brightened up our life again this week. It was the first album I pulled from our dusty LP collection to play on my new birthday turntable. The sounds had lain dormant in the vinyl tracks for years and came back to life with the drop of a needle.

There has been lots of noise about the first 100 days of a new administration- the name and location escape me but the noise is persistent. It has got me thinking about this post-Easter season and the new administration that the events of 2000 years ago introduced.

This last week as we celebrated Jesus’ resurrection, I’ve been thinking about how confusing and mind-blowing this event was for Jesus’ first learning group. It took them weeks to get their heads around this death defeating action.