another rainy day. . .

. . . seems like we've been having a lot of them lately. Which makes having a bicycle as your primary means of transportation doesn't always work that well! It has also made me realize how easily sometimes the not-so-nice side of me comes out when things don't work out as planned -- ie. how I planned them to be.
On Wednesday evenings, I usually attend a Bible study with teachers from an International Christian school in Nagoya (3rd biggest city in Japan, and about 40 minutes by train from where I live). So, I usually have to rush out after my kindergarten kids' class, bike the 20 minutes to the station, catch the train and I arrive after most of the others, but there is always a great potluck supper waiting! ;-) Today, because of the rain / bus and train connections, I was an hour late, wet, and not happy, to put it nicely. . . But, even as I walking from the train station to the house where we meet, I was thinking about what a minimal "issue" the episode really was and how big I was making it in my mind.
And then, as I arrived, to see 15 people sitting around the living room, discussing the Word of God, reaching out to others with that hope, and our amazing, personal God, was. . . a gift.
"O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory
above the heavens.
What is man that you are mindful of him,
the son of man that you care for him?
O Lord, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth."
psalm 8:1,4,9
What a privilege and honour we have to know and be known, and be completely overwhelmed in the presence of that God, our King and Saviour, who wants to relate to us intimately at every moment of every day.
May Your glory reign, as it is even now, O God.