In the wake of destruction
Text: Hebrews 4:12-16; Mark 10:17-31 The news over the last two weeks has been full of stories, photos, videos revealing the shocking destruction, especially in Florida and Western North Carolina, in the wake of the floods, winds, landslides, and tornados wreaked by Hurricanes Helene and Milton. I read story after story of folks who had survived the monster storms, and also those who did not. It has been almost unbelievable to see the wreckage - roads, highways, even the Blue Ridge Parkway washed away; the French Broad and Nolichuky Rivers coursing down interstate highways, sweeping away crops and farmland, entire houses, a paper mill. People standing in what is left of their houses staring at mud covered furniture and walls, cars crushed like cans, smashed up timbers, and upside down refrigerators. I saw scenes of things lodged in the mud where someone’s home used to be - a stuffed teddy bear, a Fender guitar, a piano. People’s ruined possessions in publi c view. I felt like I shou
