Confiscated Items

 Confiscated Items
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<<<  told me to go to the counter and sign the confiscated items form. I tried to remain calm but this was great news since I had only brought over my two wheeled suitcases. Lying on the floor about 10 feet in front of the customs counter was the backpack that was still full of Bibles.

The confiscated items form listed 264 pounds as the weight of the confiscated items. My guess is that since that was already about double the weight of Bibles I had been caught smuggling in the past, the clerk had automatically surmised that there were no other bags and had told the other guard that the confiscated items form was ready.

I signed the confiscated items form, got my passport back and walked over to the wooden chairs some distance from my bags. I had been at the counter for a while, was pretty spent and wanted to regroup. But the bigger reason was that I didn’t want to draw attention to the Bible-filled backpack by going directly to it. So I sat there with my head in my hands pretending total defeat. But it didn’t work.

“Is this your luggage?”

I looked up to find the Titanic guard standing over my three bags. I told him that they were. He kicked one of the empty wheeled bags, and then the other. Then he kicked the Bible-filled backpack.

Just as I thought there goes the rest of my Bibles, someone intervened.

Upon realizing the backpack to be full, the guard's eyes doubled in size, his mouth dropped open, and he looked like someone who had just just kicked a grizzly bear and was about to get mauled. He turned on his heels and almost ran behind the counter, his mouth still wide open.

The guard's behavior was almost funny, but I had no time to waste. The Lord was granting an opening that had to be seized. But how was I going to get a large Bible-filled backpack whose content had already been scanned, recognized and discussed as Bibles past all of those other guards?  >>>