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Shirley's Soliloquy
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Shirley
L. Hudson was
born into a Christian home, where both parents set a consistent, Godly example. After graduation from
high school, she attended Bible College where she met her husband, Henry. After marriage, they worked together for
the furtherance of the gospel in various European countries. Upon returning to the United
States, she pursued further education earning both her bachelor and master’s degrees. After her children entered
school, she taught in the public schools until retirement. Her educational background, her experiences
as the wife of a missionary, and pastor, plus her life as a teacher and mother of three children provide a comprehensive
repository from which she can draw in order to provide counsel and encouragement, particularly to women in full-time
Christian service.
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Shirley’s Soliloquy #293 03/7/2010
"Quake Shifts Earth’s Axis"
My senses picked up on this because I taught my fourth grade classes about
the Earth rotating on its axis. Since the turning and rotating causes our days and seasons, I was immediately interested.
But then as I read further, I found that the article was not talking about the north/south axis, but something about its mass.
Well, it was getting a bit more complicated than my mind could absorb. However I read enough to see that it would cause
the day to be shorter by 1.26 microseconds. A Microsecond! That’s one millionth of a second! I guess
I won’t be too concerned about that!
Then I thought about the song that Stuart Hamblen had written and popularized
when I was a teenager, “He’s Got the Whole World In His Hands!”
He’s got the sun and the
rain in His hands, He’s got the moon and the stars in His hands, He’s got the wind and the clouds in
His hands, He’s got the whole world in His hands.
He’s got the rivers and the mountains in His
hands, He’s got the oceans and the seas in His hands, He’s got you and He’s got me in His hands, He’s got the whole world in His hands.
He’s got everybody here in His hand, He’s got everybody
there in His hands, He’s got everybody everywhere in His hands, He’s got the whole world in His hands.”
Oh, as a teenager, how I loved that song! Hamblen’s singing gave me great confidence! I know I don’t
need to be concerned about any of these cataclysmic changes, because I know He’s got the whole world in His hands!
He is totally in control, for did He not create the heavens and the earth?
The Bible also tells me that our earth
is held in place by His great power! Colossians 1:16-17 tells me that,
For by Him all things were created
that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.
One of my favorite versions translates verse 17:
He existed before anything else, and He holds
all creation together.
Yes, He holds all creation together. I will not fear these microseconds, for
HE is in control!
slhudson50@yahoo.com
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