I was driving back into Houston on Saturday night �?? about a hundred miles to go, had the cruise control set at an easy pace and had found KUT on the radio. They were playing a nice, if perhaps interesting, selection of music and I had settled in to listening to the station when I hit that spot on the Interstate. You know �?� that one where the road dips or curves and the 70s groove music coming out of the radio is interrupted by a couple of seconds of crackling static and then the sounds of a harmonica from another station�??s Tejano selection comes streaming out of the speakers!!

So on that drive back into town, the static prone radio playback made me wonder and think about what our journey in this world can sometimes be like as Christians. We sort of think we have our radio tuned in correctly and we settle in for the �??drive�?� and then out of nowhere �?? stuff cuts into and interrupts our seeming idyll. Sometimes it is negative (when the interruption is a rude one and the junk that we thought we left behind cuts into our lives) and sometimes it is positive (when we get a glimpse of something so beautiful it makes us realize that what we have been living with is a load of crap and that we were made for something much better).

Our journey through life is like that �?? imperfect. We hope, though, that as we go further along the road, we find ourselves listening more to the beautiful even if the unwanted station cuts-in every now and then. It means that we will need to work on (or continue to work on) our reception and tweak that dial a bit to make sure that we are properly tuned in. Sometimes, it might mean changing the station as we go from one town to the next, realizing that we are just passing through and will not really get to hear our true station clearly until we get home.

My uncle passed away on Saturday morning. He is home and I�??m sure he has a clear, uninterrupted reception now. Requiescat in pace �??Daddy Canada�?�. I suspect you, Grandpa and the other folks over there are hanging out, catching-up and perhaps playing on the piano a little bit :-).

�??Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known�?� �?? 1 Cor. 13:12

Grace & peace,
Deji.