The strangest feeling has come over me the past few days. I feel trapped without a passport. I never knew that I depended on those papers so much. For example, it is American Thanksgiving this week... and I would love to jet over to St. Louis and participate in a fantastic Thanksgiving tradition there... or go to Grand Rapids and visit friends and family there... or go to Africa, etc... instead I am stuck here in Canada. I shouldn't say stuck there... I had no plans to go anywhere... and a new passport is already in the works.
I lost my passport (it must have been stolen or pick-pocketed) coming home to Toronto the other night. Within 12 hours Passport Canada was notified and a police report was written up. There is nothing more that I can do. (Although I am praying that someone out there returns it to me, because all the stamps in the passport tell a part of my life's story!!)
Thinking about how blessed I am to be a citizen of Canada - where I have a wonderful family, great freedom, opportunities to work and learn, incredible creation, and so much more... lead me to thinking about also being a citizen of heaven. Thankfully there are no passports needed to get in to heaven. You can't lose your paperwork. Just invite the Lord Jesus Christ into your heart and there is a place in heaven for you!
"Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God's people and members of God's household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone." Eph 2:19-20.
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