Hide and Seek

Today is Sunday, so this was our first chance to attend a sunday morning church service. We attended Holy Trinity Brompton in Kensington. Don't let the name fool you, it was very contemporary and the worship was so refreshing! The man who spoke today was fantastic as he discussed the important role of petition in our prayer lives. Jesus did say "give us this day our daily bread." God wants us to pray about our mundane needs too. They may not always be answered, but you're still getting to talk to the Abba Father and have so many more opportunities to thank Him when He does answer them. How basic, but yet often forgotten. So i'm going to work on that and start praying more often, even in the small things. Like getting this cough to go away...
The church meets in an old stone building with stained glass and columns and yet there are projector screens and microphones etc. It was pretty amazing to see the collaboration of old and new. How amazing to worship a God who is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
After church, Molly and I went for a run. We were intending to get to Holland Park and after running for about 3 miles, we finally stumbled upon the back entrance and began to make our way through. As we kept going, there was the sound of laughing and running children, so we went to see what was going on. As we came closer we saw that there were 20 or 30 boys, all dressed in army clothes running around the park. There were two guys (in their 20's) leading the game in the center near a tree. All of them had brown paint or dirt smeared on their cheeks and foreheads and i thought that maybe we had stumbled upon Neverland and Peter Pan was going to jump out at any moment. The guys leading the game said hello and told us we could join in if we wanted to. So we proceeded to play "40-40" (which is kinda like hide and seek) with a bunch of 7 year old boys in army outfits. We found out that it was one of the little boy's birthday and he was turning 7 today. Molly and I had to get going, but it was so much fun for those brief minutes to be 7 again. (not to mention hearing their awesome British accents). We did eventually make it back to the house after seeing alot of the city, running through crowded sidewalks and taking a few short cuts. What a great day. I wish there was a picture i could post with this, but obviously we didn't have our cameras with us...There might be a nap in my near future, we'll see how it goes. I don't know why, but i just had to share that story with all of you for its childish fun and a feeling of not just being an American tourist. I loved it. I'm hoping for many more Neverland experiences and maybe i can smear a little dirt on my cheeks next time...