High Church, Indeed

With Maddie spending the night with a friend and Skip working like a mad man in Amsterdam, I headed downtown for the 5 p.m. Evensong Service at Westminster Abbey. They've only been holding services there for about 1000 years. The setting was incredible and the service was complete with the men and boys choir of the Abbey with the frilly-collar robes and everything. And the music! The sound was incredible. The voices and the organ and the acoustics were so perfect, it was hard to believe that you were actually hearing what you were hearing. It was really quite an experience. I'm not sure how worshipful it was, since I think was more in awe of my surroundings and the music than I was of the Almighty. Perhaps if I'm able to go again someday, I can be a little more focused on the actual purpose of the service. Touring the Abbey requires a ticket, but it is an operating church, so anyone can come at worship free of charge to any of the services.

Tomorrow, I'm off with Maddie to the PAX Lodge, one of the four world centers of the Girl Scouts International.