Earthquake!

Another earthquake struck my home state of Oklahoma last night at 7:44. It was first thought to be a 5.3 but has been down-graded to a 5.0. My brother phoned a few minutes after it struck, asking if I felt it. I didn’t. He and my sister-in-law not only felt, they heard it and it shook their house pretty hard. They are in Tahlequah and although the center of the earthquake was Cushing, the shaking was felt in Texas, Kansas, and Arkansas.

I didn’t feel the ground shake but Dawn did. So did Jane and so did Peg, here in NWA. Nemo felt it and he may have felt after-shocks. He was so nervous he couldn’t sit still. He paced the floor from one end of the house to the other. I tried to explain to him, petted him; it didn’t do any good. I put his harness around him, thinking that might help him feel secure; it didn’t. Animals feel, hear, smell, and see things we cannot. I wonder if a certain scent is associated with earth movement?

We’ve all used the word ground in conversation. It used to be a synonym for dependable: rooted and grounded, feet on the solid ground, feet on the ground and head in the stars, sure ground, as solid as the ground we walk on; but what do we do when this terra firma isn’t so firm any more? I place my faith in the Solid Rock (Matthew 7:24-25). The ground may move but God doesn’t.