“The best laid plans o mice and men aft gang agley”! R Burns
Indeed. Who knew that
the Monday we arrived in New Castle would coincide with the biggest snow event
in over 20 years. Newcastle England is
much farther north than Alabama, but due to it’s location in the east of
England, and it’s position west of the European mainland, it does NOT generally
get all that much snow. But this was
different. Almost every night of the 7
days we were there it snowed; sometimes during the day. It was a great reminder
of living in Sweden! Like AL, Newcastle
is NOT well prepared for this.
I (Phillip) was scheduled to give a talk at Sunderland Uni
on Tuesday after we arrived, at noon.
So, he set out to arrive there a bit after 11. As we have mentioned, that
talk was cancelled because the university was closed beginning at noon. And, it appears when the close the Uni, it is
not optional, everyone leaves.
I was looking forward to giving that talk, a brand new one,
and I was even more looking forward to meeting with some Christian Faculty
after the talk, but our plans, are not necessarily what G^d has in mind!
In fact, many of our plans over the next two weeks were
altered substantially. But, our team of
6 never despaired. After all, as our
friend Dick, pointed out, G^d had other plans, plans much better than ours!
So, our lesson learned was, hold your plans loosely, after
all, “… the best laid plans…”.
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