RELEASED!

Although we only live five miles from the border, it's never a quick and easy trip getting across the international bridge Lloyd and I sat for over an hour in traffic on the bridge Tuesday before reaching the customs officer. We were tired after having spent all afternoon in Nuevo Progreso; and we wanted to go home. Inch by inch we crawled along in the heat, in a double line of vehicles, restrained and trappd and imprisoned. Bored, we tried listening to the radio and then we had conversations with people in nearby cars. And we thought about getting home and being able to relax.



Finally it was our turn to drive through the narrow gate and up to the uniformed man in the booth. We gave him our passports and he checked them while running our vehicle license number through the computer. Finally he handed back our passports and said, "Have a good day."


A short distance past the vehicle inspection lanes and lots of pedestrian traffic and we were on the open road and were free! What a great and exhilarating feeling of release! It brought to mind being in a country that isn't ours, where we have no citizenship and are only visiting on a mission; similar to our walk in this life as Christians. And how good it is to be set free and going home!