So today is one year since I moved to the Dominican Republic. So many thoughts run through my head. Rainy season has started again, and for the last four or five days it’s been raining off & on. (I know I can live through rainy season in the tropics, but a few days in a row of this & it makes me think hard even about ever considering living in the Pacific Northwest where it rains 9 or 10 months of the year & is not tropical.) Needless to say, rainy days provoke thinking…
I know I’m more me than I was a year ago. Did you catch that? So often I think we say we’re different or changed & while to some extent that’s true, it’s that I’ve grown more into who I’ve been made to be, by God’s grace & mercy & my feeble part of seeking to follow Him. As I was walking home from staff Bible study tonight (in a few moments without rain), the evening was so tranquil & pleasant & as I looked up at the full moon & the transluscent clouds which shifted through the night sky, the chorus of the song “Show Me Your Glory” went through my head, to now listen to the verses & it puts into words much of this last year & the desire of my heart for all that’s still to come of life in the Dominican Republic & wherever He leads me:
i caught a glimpse of Your splendorin the corner of my eye
the most beautiful thing i’ve ever seen
and it was like a flash of lightning
that flickered on the sky
and i know i’ll never be the same show me Your glory
send down Your presence
i wanna see Your face
show me Your glory
majesty shines above You
and i can’t go on without You Lord
when i climb down the mountain
and get back to my life
i won’t settle for ordinary things
i’m gonna follow You forever
for all of my days
i won’t rest until i see You again show me Your glory
send down Your presence
i wanna see Your face
show me Your glory
majesty shines above You
and i can’t go on without You Lord
I feel extremely priviledged thinking back to many of the manners in which He’s allowed me to see more of His glory in this last year from getting to know different Dominicans, the culture, individuals on different teams that I’ve met, things that God’s permitted in my life, His never-failing faithfulness, the prayer & financial support, all of it & so much more than I can recognize or recall.
It’s not all been mountain top experiences. In the discipleship class I’m doing at church here the first thing we do is read through the Bible. As I was reading the book of Job last week in what sometimes God permits the enemy to put us through & then like John the Baptist talked about Jesus sifting us like wheat to separate the chaff from the grain (Matthew 3:12), who am I to say in this last year what trials God permitted the enemy to attack me with, or what God’s given me to strenghthen my faith & sift out some of the chaff, or what’s simply come as consequences to my own sin, but nonetheless, I know God has & is using it all to grow me more & more into exactly who He made me to be. I’ve caught glimpses of His glory & continue to choose that I will live for Him. I want to see more of His glory.
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