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THE WARNING
FROM A CROSS

y missionary departure this
time was very different, a
little worried, this time not
for
M documenting my mo-
torcycle, but for who would accompany
me on the trip, because the motorcycle
only had a capacity of 110 cylinders. The
one who accompanied me was a
preacher, of good weight, of at least 100
kg. plus my 70 kg. I could feel the effort
of the small engine and the sinking of the lar and the largest crosses, surely a work
shock absorbers of our machine that of the Ministry of Transport of our coun-
behaved very well until we reached our try.
destination. My opinion about these chapels and
The point of our story focuses on our particularly about the cross that conti-
return. but first I want to say that the visit nues, is that this cross is a warning for all
of the preacher was very emotional. It travelers and especially for drivers. What
was very remarkable the effort of my warns them? The imprudence of someone
arms and my concentration while driving, who caused the death of an unfortunate
achieving speeds of 60 to 70 km per hour, traveler or travelers and that is why we
with the feet very close to the brake in the must take precautions. That cold empty
possibility of slowing down when obser- cross tells us that someone left this life.
ving the passage of interprovincial trucks Almost everyone knows that the existen-
and buses traveling. To our environment ce of a being continues even after death
producing a wind of imbalance for us. and it is likely that many do not know
Strategically, I always try to drive not where the deceased were.
too close to the pedestrian berm as a pre- There is only ONE who went to death
caution; but in an oversight I started to and emerged victorious from it and He
drive on the berm, when I saw a truck also left the image of a cold empty cross,
coming against the traffic and I did not leaving us a warning and a hope. "Jesus
notice a moving car that was behind me. said to him: I am the way, and the truth,
When I wanted to turn left, it was when I and the life; no one comes to the Father
felt the touch of the wind from the car except through me "(Jn 14: 6). The war-
that overtook me. With that fright and ning of that cross is that if you do not co-
thinking about death I looked to the right, me to him you can not have LIFE. The
on the side of the track there was a small hope is that if you come to him, you will be
chapel with a cross on it. resurrected on the day of his coming; for
I have almost always thought of all he rose again and promised to return and
those little chapels and the message that it take with him all those who believed him.
conveys to my life. Although this time I Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ my dear
saw them more attentive almost all the friend and you will be saved.
way and the peculiar thing of this
14 time is that all the chapels were simi- By David Olórtegui Rios