Today we enjoyed opening our Young Church kit -reading the story of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem, making donkeys and palm branches, and sharing things we were grateful for… I am grateful for an early morning coffee on the deck with Richard, serenaded by our tui watching the wax eyes flitting around and delighting in the sunshine. The sun makes it easier to find reasons for praise, but there remains beneath it all a sombre reality -a shadow -not so different from the original Palm Sunday. This road we are on is not an easy road, but it is the road we are called to travel for this time. May we delight in the good things that come our way, even if it is the very stones that need to cry out in praise. Hosanna!