Calm Sunday

May 23, 2010

I love the Sabbath. It’s so nice to have a day of the week to stop thinking about all the craziness of life and consider the most important relationship we can have in this life, the one with our Heavenly Father. Re-evaluating ourselves is such a necessary part of our progress in life. It can be difficult to grapple with yourself as you consider all your shortcomings, especially the ones that have been shortcomings for a long time. You’d think that with the passing years it would be so simple to abandon the errors of our ways. Conventional wisdom that we gather should inform us to prevent us from doing silly things that don’t make us happy. Yet, here we often find ourselves as we go to church to pray and think about the things of God. My Sabbath was spent mostly in solitude which only added to my experience as I carried out my own self-evaluation. I had planned to go to a sung Eucharist but didn’t wake up in time to make it there. Since I didn’t go, I didn’t see Michelle at all until after the block of meetings. We spent the majority of the rest of the day blogging. We went to Hyde Park since the weather was so lovely. We had to move several times though because the sun kept chasing us and because of the smoke coming from this guy who was smoking hookah. All in all, it was one of the most low-key days I’ve had so far in London. It was nice to relax. The unfortunate part of the day was how we lost track of time at the park and so we missed the Evensong that evening sung by Tenebrae. We were totally bummed because everyone was talking about how good it was. The difficult thing about London is that it takes about an hour to get anywhere, so you really have to plan in advance. It was nice to sit back and relax though.