UK Diary, Day 2 (part 2)
In which we take in Saint Margaret's Chapel, and finish the day shopping
Before we continue on Day 2, let’s have some more from Evelyn Underhill:
“We need surroundings which encourage us to attend to God. It is through such steadfast attention that men learn to know Him: for we can only know in a real sense, that we which love, gaze at, admire, and enjoy—and this is worship. Worship is not therefore getting information about God; though learning from those who know more about Him than we do may help us to worship better. It is not telling Him our sins and asking for forgiveness; though once the human creature begins to grasp what worship is, it is driven to confess its rebellions, imperfections, and nothingness and ask for that restoring energy we call grace. Nor is it recommending to His notice the persons and causes which happen to interest us. Exhortation, confession, intercession, all have their place in man’s religious life; but there are something less than worship. Worship is the little human spirit’s humble adoring acknowledgement of the measureless glory of God, the only Reality—the Perfect, the Unchanging, the entirely Free.” (from her book, Worship)
Right then, back to it:
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