While I'm not part of the generation that are born with an ipad in their hand, I do catch on rather quickly to new technology. I love all the newest and greatest things available to us and like most, wonder what on earth we ever did before texting and other such wonders. I recently had a mishap with my cell phone that caused some grief though. One morning I woke up to the screen stating that there was no sd card installed. Now I knew that couldn't be the case, but I did open it up to check. I took the sd card out and reinserted and it still claimed there was no card. I checked my files on the phone and to my horror, it really didn't show any sd storage. I took the sd out, used the little adapter that came with it and inserted into my pc. It was not detected in my pc! I thought I was being so proactive by storing my pictures, documents, etc on the card and not on the main internal storage of my phone. After all, didn't want to risk loosing it all if I had to change phones or something. Who would think those little cards can go bad. I even took it to a data recovery place and they couldn't retrieve anything. So there it was, a worthless little storage card that used to have about a years worth of pictures on it. Yeah about a year I estimate. So I got to thinking about the backup service, "the cloud", that came as a free service with my cellular account. I never really understood what it was all about. I guess a more accurate statement would be to say that I never really took the time to figure out what it was all about and how it worked. I now decided to take the time. I didn't want to risk losing pictures again. You can imagine my excitement when I opened up the account and my pictures began to appear right on my screen. Yup, pictures from the last year. But I did discover that I was still missing the last 6 months or so. I think I must have started the account and the backups, then when I got my new phone about 6 months ago, I didn't reactivate it. So live and learn. Now I have it set up so my pictures, my documents (basically my life) store in my cloud. Everything syncs between my phone, my pc, my laptop, making all elements of my life accessible from basically anywhere. I had forgotten about taking some of the pictures, but when seeing them, they certainly brought back memories of situations, people, events, and so on. What a fun concept to think about. If I have a cloud to store my life in, think of all the stuff others must have in their cloud. Then again maybe I don't want to think about that. Maybe when we get to Heaven, we're invited to sit down and view our life story from the stuff stored in our cloud. Just like my pictures popping up in front of me that I had forgotten about, so will the events of our life be, restoring memories of events and people and actions. Hopefully good memories. Hopefully memories we wouldn't mind if others saw because this might not be done privately, but rather a drive-in-movie sort of thing. Kind of reminds me of a section of scripture stating iniquities shall be spoken upon the housetops and their secret acts shall be revealed.
