Bayou Boat

Bayou residents have shrimp boats like farmers have tractors. When a tractor dies, it's left to rust out behind the shed. When a shrimp boat dies, it's left in the bayou. Boats and tractors are tools--useful for a time, but destined to end in rust.

The Good News is that we are not God's tools, but God's children. Our End will not be in abandoned rust, but in embraced re-creation.

This abandoned shrimp boat rests in the bayou at Pointe-aux-Chenes, Louisiana. The highway follows the bayou for miles toward the Gulf, but at this very spot, the road ends.
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