Radiant

When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands, he was not aware that his face was radiant because he had spoken with the Lord.

-Exodus 34:29

 

What I wouldn’t give

to have my face radiant

because I’ve been

talking to You!

To be in such close

communication,

to hear Your voice,

the blending timbres

breathed upon my face,

to feel Your heart strings

vibrating in my soul.

And as I descend

from the mountain

the people all around

me hover in awe,

for they have never seen

a light so gloriously

upon me, pouring out

through my pores,

and their deductions

that I am touched

by You, that You

have spoken and

shattered all that

divided us.

“Surely this one

has been with the Lord,”

they’d cry.

And Your hand

would reach out

to their aching hearts,

lead them up to

where You wait and

reveal Yourself

in an exuberant

display of glory.

When they return,

our robes would match

and all our eyes

would roam the dazzling

white light bouncing

from face to face,

and I would respond,

“You, too, have been

with God, and it is good.”

 

Prayer:

Lord, how I long to see Your face. How I long to be filled with Your radiance and stand as an example of Your glory glowing through my life. May I be drawn to You so people see my heart and long to know the lightness in their own. Amen.