My mom sent me the sweetest email today.
With her words of wisdom along with the words of wisdom from Corrie Ten Boom.:
It is indeed a new day!! I hope you will have a good one and put all of yesterday's happenings behind you.
Corrie Ten Boom's devotional for yesterday was the following: "Jesus did not promise to change the circumstances around us. He promised great peace and pure joy to those who would learn to believe that God actually controls all things. Your will be done Father. Teach us that You , not we, control our lives for our own good."
I thought that was applicable. Let Him show you what you can learn from this whole thing.
She is very right. It was applicable to yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
He promises PEACE and PURE JOY.
Our God controls all things!!
Even so, today was a very slow day.
Since yesterday's events, I've been very homesick.
Madrid apparently does not like me.
But, I love Madrid.
Last night confirmed this when we went out for chocolate and churros.
The week caught up to many of us.
Everyone was pretty tired. I needed a siesta.
But, we were scheduled to go the Prado, art museum.
I love art and museums. This is just what I needed. I was in my element.
We saw Goya, El Greco, Sargeant, Van Dyck, Velazquez, Durer, and Fra Angelico among others.
I only wish that I had Adair with me to enlighten me with all her knowledge.
It was no Uffizi of Florence, but it was great.
There are two more that we are scheduled to see: the Reina Sofia and the Thyssen.
The Thyssen is what I am most excited about. It has the Impressionists, which are my favorite.
And Reina Sofia is more modern art, with Picasso's Guernica.
Here is some of what we saw today:
Goya
The first is John Singer Sargeant and the second is Velazquez.
Both were put in the same room to show the likeness in their uses of light.
and the famous El Greco.
We are taking our first day trip to Segovia tomorrow.
Pictures to come!!
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