BOB
This is Bob Peden of Central, a United Methodist Community here in
Meridian. It has been 10 years since Hurricane Katrina roared ashore,
destroying much of the central gulf coast.
Mississippi’s coast had always been known for its beautiful live oak trees.
Katrina uprooted some, but killed many more by inundating them with salt
water, and stripping them of leaves and branches.
Following the storm, the highway department cleared many of these trees,
but left some trunks standing. Then "chainsaw artist" Dayton Scoggins
turned the still standing trunks into the beautiful works of art you see here.
In the same way, God can work in our lives to transform the disasters we
encounter, into lives that serve to glorify him.
Just as Dayton Scoggins didn’t send Katrina to the gulf coast to give him
wood to work, God doesn’t send us disasters so that he can recover our lives.
But make no mistake, God can transform the worst the world has to dish out
into a beautiful work of life, if we will only allow Him to do so.
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