UK Diary, Day 2 (part 1)

In which we head to Edinburgh Castle, mainly

Greetings, everyone! Here’s a quote from Evelyn Underhill, a luminous Anglican Christian writer who died in AD 1941:

“The whole duty of man, said S. Ignatius of Loyola, is to ‘praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord"‘—that is our contribution to the purpose of the universe. In it we transcend the ordinary visible world of time, and join with the whole Communion of Saints, the living and the dead, in reverent adoring delight in God. Each time we ‘go to church’ we ought in spirit to be entering that eternal world”
(from her book, Worship)

Yesterday was a day given over to visiting Edinburgh Castle, then window shopping in the neighborhood (including our street, pictured above), stopping primarily at charity shops (called thrift shops in the US) for clothing and stopping at used bookstores. Whereas our first day was very sunny, yesterday as cloudy and misty — “more like it,” as some would say.

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Plus, you get to see all the photographs my family and I have taken in our UK holiday/vacation. Here is one of most of my family:

and here’s Twyla and me