People were left astounded after a statue of Jesus was the only thing that survived a violent inferno in Tennessee.
The statue of Jesus standing after the inferno
The pictures coming out of the Gatlinburg, Tennessee, wildfires are
just devastating. Acres of woodland blackened. Row upon row of homes
and businesses reduced to ashes.
But a TV crew with CNN affiliate WVLT spotted something of a
miracle amid all that destruction. On Wednesday, reporter Kelsey Leyrer
and her team captured footage of what they saw at a house out in Sevier
County. It was a statue of Jesus -- covered with soot and ashes, but
still standing. It was the only thing left after the home burned to the
ground.
The Jesus statue was the second religious item this week that
survived the wildfires. Earlier this week Isaac McCord, an employee at
the Dollywood theme park, says he found a partially burned page from the
Bible's book of Joel. The part of the passage that's readable, from
Joel's first chapter reads, "O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire
hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned
all the trees of the field."
McCord immediately took a picture of what he'd found and posted it
to Facebook, where it's been shared tens of thousands of times. Many
commenters took it as a sign from God.
"It provides hope and faith," McCord said. "That's why I shared it."
At least seven people have lost their lives in the wildfires that have ravaged Sevier County and Gatlinburg this week.
-CNN
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