Hands
During the Second World War, a quaint
little French village was bombed by mistake. The Villagers were forewarned by
air-raid sirens and cleared out of the village before the bombing started.
Through tears of sadness, they sat on
a nearby hill all that night and watched the flashes and fires as the bombs
leveled their town.
They returned to their village and
began digging in the rubble for anything salvageable. There wasn't much.
But, all the villagers joined
together in the effort to rebuild their village from the bottom up. As the
rubble was cleared from the village square, several pieces of white marble were
found, the remains of the statue that stood in the square. The villagers called
on the best sculptor to rebuild the old statue as a remembrance of the
rebuilding of their village.
The sculptor worked for years on this
challenge. Finally, as the remaining bit of paint was put on the last building
in the quaint village and the streets were washed out for the last time, a
veiled figure stood in the square.
The villagers held a great three day
celebration to commemorate the rebuilding of their village. As the last feature
in the celebration, the villagers all met together at the town square for the
unveiling of the statue.
Finally the veil was removed. There
in the square stood a figure of Christ exactly as in the visitors center in