canny good: God is Good

The past couple of days have been positively phenomenal. Yesterday, Shelby, Ash, and myself went on an adventure to find the Penshaw Monument in Sunderland. We had seen some postcards of this Greekish-Parthenon-looking structure at a few shops in town, so we set out to find it. Since we had taken the metro last week to Newcastle, we felt like we were pretty experienced travelers (except for the fact that we missed the first metro by about 7 seconds... but no worries). So we caught the metro to the closest stop, which we later found out was a pretty decent way away. The 3-mile hike to the monument was filled with scenes of your typical English countryside: rolling hills, cute little bridges, and precious cottages & churches. Although the second half of the hike was uphill and extremely tiresome, it made actually reaching the monument that much more appreciated. It was so much bigger than I expected, but it was also not nearly as old as I had thought (constructed in 1844, to be exact). It was still cool though! We caught the bus home, grabbed some dinner in town, and I crashed for the night.

This morning I went to a church that was just a few blocks down the road from my flat. I felt really welcome there, and the worship was really good -- they even did a song that was written by Elevation (the church I go to while I'm at school), so I had a major God moment! There I was, 4000 miles away from anything I've ever known, and yet these people are singing songs that my home church wrote?! God is so good! Afterwards, Ash and I grabbed coffee with Becky, the worship leader from CU, and ended up spending the rest of the afternoon with her. Long story short, because she is going to be out of town next week with the rest of the CU leaders, Ash and I are going to do the music this week at CU! Like, how crazy is that! We've only known this girl for 2 days, but I felt such a strong, Godly connection with her. God is just SO good! (I've been having tons of these God moments for the past few days, and I keep being reminded of how big and awesome and universal He is. This semester is going to be a good one.)