An entire city flattened in seconds. Temples, schools, families gone in a sudden searing light, and yet the story didn't end in the rubble. Survivors came out from hiding, dazed but alive. They wept, they buried, they rebuilt brick by brick, tree by tree, hope by trembling hope. And today, Hiroshima is a city of peace, a garden grown where fire once fell. They rebuilt the city not with vengeance, but with vision.
And here in Memphis, we know something about ashes too. Ours didn't fall from the sky. They settled slowly through decades of poverty, violence and loss, but we have never stopped rebuilding. The work is not glamorous. It rarely makes headlines, but it is sacred because every life rebuilt, every block restored is a defiance of the forces that try to keep us broken. The lessons of Hiroshima is not just about war. It's about resilience. And in Memphis, we are learning it well because the ashes of poverty are not the end. Not here, not now, not with God still at work among us. This is Dr. Scott Morris for Church Health.
