Day #3

Yesterday was a great day!

Went to church at All Souls - fantastic sermon! The pastor spoke on Habakkuk 1 - 2 - ask an honest question, get an honest answer. Lots of different ages and races. Sadly, the building had no A/C and so I was quite literally melting...but I survived.

Went to British Museum which was interesting, but it had too much stuff for me. You really just couldn't see it all, and if you tried, your head started to hurt. How many plaster busts does one really need to see before they've seen enough? Although, I did get a greater appreciation for all those things I learned in history class so long ago...

Walked around the north section of London and loved it. Even though it rained a bit, the buildings here are so incredible. London has really done a great job of mixing ancient and modern. They've restored, not destroyed and started over. It remindedthat God doesn't just destroy His creation when we choose to reject Him, but that He seeks to restore us to Himself. It's really beautiful...

Went to the British Library. Much more my style along the lines of info I'm able to digest. Looked at many ancient illuminated texts, saw manuscripts of Handel's Messiah, a Mozart opera, Enigma by Elgar, many others. Saw the Magna Carta (history class, anyone?) Lots of cool stuff.

Went to King's Cross in search of platform 9 3/4, but was unable to locate it...

Went to Hillsong Church London. Also drearily hot, didn't know any of the songs, sermon was interesting, lots of young people. What I like about Hillsong in general is that they believe that God has something wonderful planned for your life, and they inspire you to believe it too. Now you can all poo poo it and say that they're preaching a prosperity gospel, but that's not what I'm talking about. I mean, saying that God has a plan for your life and it's good and pleasing and perfect. They don't say that you're going to be famous or anything like that, just that God has a plan for you and it's right. And I love that b/c it's true! Our destinies might not look how we want them to look, but God knows what's best and He's got it all under control. Maybe that's not what they mean, but that's how I'm taking it...

Took the tube home and got lost trying to walk back to the hostel...ugh! Still, home by 9:15 and went to bed.

Today I'm heading to the Courtald Galleries, St. Paul's Cathedral, the Tower of London, and then to Shakespeare's Globe to see 'As You Like It.' It's going to be a long day! Good thing I slept in!

I hope you all have a great start to your week!

Lots of love!

btw - apparently I look spanish. Yesterday while leaving Hillsong, one of the men was staring at me and then said 'hola' as I left, and then this morning at breakfast the cook came and spoke with me for a while asking me where I was from and was I spanish? When I told him I wasn't he was surprised and said, "You look Spanish!" "It's the dark hair," I responded. "No, it's your eyes," he countered. "You have beautiful eyes."

Thanking him, I quicking looked away...=)

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