Hello, I'm John Eldridge, and welcome to the Ransomed Heart Audio Podcast.

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Why don't you start with the story?

Okay, just got back last night, John, from vacation.

And what is it about vacations for Lori and I that it seems like our biggest relational battles and

and the threat to our marriage seems most real when we're we're on vacation. It's just amazing. Yes, yes, here we go.

We're at some friends house and we need to call a taxi to get a ride to the airport.

You're in LA in Los Angeles. Yep.

I had a pretty good time together.

There were other moments, but on this particular moment I call the taxi drives up it's

one 30 you need to be at airport at two and doesn't speak English we hop in and off we go.

And it's, you've heard of Tijuana taxis or third world taxis.

Well, we are racing down Pacific Coast Highway and I mean he is cutting people off.

He's skidding, hitting the brakes, just missing pedestrians, racing along the sidewalk and I'm thinking it's a taxi.

We're going to LA and it's an E-ticket ride.

This is what you get and just make sure your seatbelts on have a ball.

And then next to me of course is Lori and I noticed that she has her hands gripped on the seat in front of her and just

this look of terror on her face as she's alternating between hitting the imaginary break and holding a steering wheel.

And she's just kind of freaking out.

Yeah. And that's where it all goes wrong.

I'm thinking, what's with her?

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