
Sometimes I feel like I'm in Barcelona. Especially last week when I was there.
It's an amazing city, right on the beach, baked in Catalonian sunshine and full of incredible architecture.
Definitely the most impressive building is Gaudi's unfinished church 'La Sagrada Familia'. The church has been in the process of being built for the last 100 years, and will probably take another 30 years or so to finish.
You can walk around inside and it's basically a building site, full of scaffolding and machinery. But you still get a feeling for the scale of Gaudi's project and the detail of his vision.
For me, I was impressed by the fact that such a big church is being built today. I think we often link God to old buildings, like the great Gothic cathedrals of Western Europe and therefore make God something ancient, historical and inaccessible. Yet walking around Gaudi's modernist masterpiece, you get perhaps an even greater sense of God's continuing grandeur and immutable relevance; a church does not have to be old and traditional in order to show something of God's greatness.
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