Flying over Boarders

  Last weekend Hope, Courtney, Amy, and I crossed the Boarder into Mcallen, Texas to pick up 35 boxes with 350 donated Spanish Bibles in them.....350 AWESOME Bibles by the way.  The Bible is set up as comic strips for kids.  They are to be passed out at a conference here in Monterrey in April for local churches and people to learn more about Back2Back and become more involved in orphan care.  As we were trying to cross back into Mexico from Texas, we were told we couldn't cross the boarder because the person to declare the Bibles was not working.  The man explained we would have to come back the next day and try again.  We were all a little frustrated because this was not marked anywhere, and we were tired and ready to go home WITH the Bibles.  As we turned around to come back into the states, we sat in an hour and a half line of cars to cross back over.  As we were sitting in our back2back suburban figuring out what our next steps would be, we saw some birds flying in-between the two boarders.  Hope laughed and stated, 
                                        
                           "I wish we were birds so we could fly over the boarder."
   
   I keep thinking of the situation and Hope's comment.  Why can't we just fly over the boarders?  I have been thinking of how often I have let "boarders" in my life keep me from flying or doing something GREAT that God has wanted for me.  These boarders may be other people, emotions, doubt, disbelief, friends, situations, past, etc.  Since being here in Mexico, I have visibly seen so many of these boarders in my life and in the people around me.  God is trying to do great things here, and boarders keep coming up.  These BOARDERS have been seen in a 3/4 year long adoption process, a child being dropped off for the first time at a children's home, an illness, an organization growing and learning, relationships, youth serving Him, programs developing, and many more.  Please continue to pray for myself and the others around me to FLY above the boarders and DO what is right with/for HIM.  

   "But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.

                                     They will soar on wings like eagles;
                               they will run and not grow weary,
                                they will walk and not be faint."

                                                  Isaiah 40:31

A bird flying over the mountains by our property. (Stevie, I stole your picture!) 

Some of The Bibles! 

In one of the RIO communities this is how they cross over the river to their homes.