London

Daily writing prompt

What’s a moment in your life that felt like it was straight out of a movie?

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I can’t really think of anything that doesn’t feel like real life. The closest thing might be the first time that I left Ireland and went to London back in June 1981 to see Bob Dylan in Earls Court. It wasn’t just the concert. I’d grown up hearing from relatives about London and watching British TV shows, following British soccer teams and listening to British music. So, it was great to be there and to see all the famous sites.

It’s said that whoever is tired of London is tired of life. I still love London. I watch Joolz Guides whenever he brings out a new video on YouTube. And I still enjoy podcast episodes that I downloaded back around 2009 by Robert Wright. I’m glad that I kept them because I can’t see them on the web anymore.

I must visit again soon. Here are a few slides that I took back in 1981. I tend to love old buses and other vehicles and resent modern ones 😀.

Here’s Joolz and a song from Bob Dylan’s Earl’s Court concert:

I always like to include a few hymns too. Two churches that I visited in London when I lived there in 1982 and 1983 were Westminster Chapel and the Metropolitan Tabernacle. I was a young evangelical Christian trying to make up my mind between whether to hang out with traditional reformed evangelicals or modern charismatics. I probably lean towards being traditional and reformed, but I have happy memories of fellowship with all my evangelical friends, whatever their outlook was. And I love all the old charismatic songs from the 1970s that we used to sing in the more modern fellowships.

Someone put some Vintage Worship tapes up on the web. I remember having some of these tapes back in the early 1980s. Even when I lost interest in the modern charismatic scene, I still liked the music. I like all hymns based on Scripture, whichever branch of Christianity they come from.