One full day of sightseeing in London

I started my day with a wonderful visit with my Airbnb Host and a nice cup of English tea. My host is from Saudi Arabia although she has lived in London for many years. She is a born again Christain!!! She told me her testimony how she became a Christian. God has such a way of planning my trip! I feel like I'm staying with friends!

So I picked a few sites to go see, one being St Paul's cathedral and headed that way on the "tube" or the underground. They have a very very long escalator that goes down. Funny thing is everything is backwards here, not just driving on the wrong side of the road, but even escalators and walk ways are backwards too. So where our escalators would go up on the right, theirs are going down. You never think about things like that, until you see it "wrong".

I went straight to the cathedral and my heart just swells with my love for these buildings. The history of this one is that it made it through the blitz. This town is full of history, making it through the plague, the fire or the war. This cathedral was one of the only ones that made it through the war. Most were bombed. This one had one 500 lb bomb that landed on the steps that didn't explode!! I also stood in another church that was bombed and there was only one wall left.

Unlike Italy the cathedrals here are Anglican not Catholic. I went to a service and later an "even song". which is when the choir sings psalms. It was incredible sound to hear singing in that building! They have a room off the side to pray in and my first stop on this trip was taking time to pray for all my family and friends that come to my mind. Plus a few of the people I’ve visited with already as I started my trip.

The first person I connected with was a man I met in the elevator alongside his wife who was covered with a beautiful scarf. We were visiting and I asked if he had been to USA. He said no I have anxiety. We had a short visit and I was able to share how prayer helps anxiety. He said "we are Muslim and I should pray more". We got interrupted by the train coming, but I'm going to keep that man in my prayers and I trust the Holy Spirit will continue the work in him.

In the afternoon I went on a tour where he talked about how many Christians were martyred here. He was a bit too graphic on this subject for me as he told about how they were killed. He told us about the black plague. Possibly as many as 55000 died in the plague. We were standing on the burying spot, and it is a beautiful park there with VERY green grass.

This was also the area John and Charles Wesley were from.