I reread last night's post and found more mistakes than usual :) Forgive me, please!
Well today has been a very good day. Partly because it started at 12:30 when a friend called to say she was coming over later than expected. Which was good, considering her phone call woke me up. When I said I was tired, I wasn't exaggerating!
The day began the best way possible. I read Psalm 69, 83, and 84 with a friend and we spent some time praying for our co-workers and friends in London. It was very refreshing, to say the least. We ate lunch together (obviously it was a late lunch!) and then I spent some time preparing for my evening, which has included dinner and a very long but beneficial meeting. After having been away for so long, it's time to start to figure out my new schedule and duties.
As I travelled on the Tube to my meeting, I was struck by the serious mood. I've forgotten while away and I suppose I just got used to it when I was here before, but everyone is very serious. No one smiles when they walk or if they accidentally make eye contact. Very few people bother to say "Pardon" as they walk/push by you on the sidewalk. Almost everyone wears a black coat. Generally, everyone rushes off to catch the next train or the next bus. It makes me wonder if I became more like that while I was here before. I'm not certain these are elements of the culture to which I want to adapt. It really shouldn't matter if I miss my train, because within two or five or (oh horrors) ten minutes, the next train will come. I don't like pretending to be oblivious to the world around me. I feel I miss opportunities.
Well, I must get to my preparations for another meeting tomorrow and I think an early bed is also required so that I wake up before noon! To close, here's a portion of what I read this morning:
How lovely is your dwelling place, O LORD Almighty! My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the Living God. (Psalm 84:1-2)
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