bound for glory land

bound for glory

fiction
edward w pritchard

See the picture of the young Mother from Central America dragging her two daughters and carrying the four year old boy across the Rio Grand into El Paso, Texas and up the bank bound for glory in the United States of America. The boy only speaks Spanish but for months his Mother has told him about America and their final destination clear up to Michigan to Detroit. It's nearly Heaven to the family. She has made her only son a promise of a better life and in a few more steps they will have finally made it to America.

The children all have new coats and look healthy and optimistic.Trusting faithfully in their Mother to protect them in their new Homeland. Their Mother is the promise keeper and the three determined children hopefully following their Mother are the freedom seekers.

If only they could fly thinks the one little girl bound for glory.