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I JUST READ an article, “Beyond the Quasars.” It gives some mind-boggling figures that would tax greater minds than mine. It ends like this: “Who can tell what the God who can make a quasar with the energy of a billion suns has planned for those who serve Him? The power that puts a billion tons of matter in a cubic inch is on the side of those who love Him. He has promised that the very end of our universe is the beginning of a better world. He is the cosmic Gentleman, He will keep His WORD. HIS WORD.” There are some who will tell you that this same God came to this minute planet, spent a few years and died. “Who fathoms the Eternal Thought, Who talks of scheme and plan? The Lord is GOD, He needeth not The poor device of man.” I like Carruth’s concept of the beginning of our little world: “A fire-mist and a planet, A crystal and a cell A jelly-fish and a saurian, And caves where the cave-men dwell; Then, a sense of law and beauty And a face turned from the clod— Some call it Evolution, And others call it God.” I WANT TO SHARE this poem with you. I have treasured it for a number of years, it is by an unknown poet and is titled “God and I.” God and I in space alone, And nobody else in view. “And where are the people, 0 Lord?” I said, “The earth beneath and the sky o’erhead, And the dead whom once I knew?” “That was a dream,” God smiled and said, “A dream that has ceased to be true There were no people, living or dead No earth beneath and no sky o’erhead There was only Myself and you.” “And why do I feel no fear” I said, “Meeting You here this way? For I have sinned, I know full well, And is there heaven and is there hell, And is this the judgement day?”
“Nay, those were but dreams,” the Great God said, “Dreams that have ceased to be. There are no such things as fear and sm, And you yourself—you have never been; There is nothing at all but ME.” God of the universe, with its black holes, pulsars and quasars, be with me now and beyond the sunset of this plane of understanding. AMEN.
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