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Rejoicing in the fullness of the earth

When it looks as though the beauty and resources of the earth are waning, we can turn to a God’s-eye view of creation, spiritual and complete.

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The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof.
– Psalms 24:1

The fading forms of matter, the mortal body and material earth, are the fleeting concepts of the human mind. They have their day before the permanent facts and their perfection in Spirit appear. The crude creations of mortal thought must finally give place to the glorious forms which we sometimes behold in the camera of divine Mind, when the mental picture is spiritual and eternal.
– Mary Baker Eddy, “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,” pp. 263-264

Advancing spiritual steps in the teeming universe of Mind lead on to spiritual spheres and exalted beings. To material sense, this divine universe is dim and distant, gray in the sombre hues of twilight; but anon the veil is lifted, and the scene shifts into light.
– Science and Health, p. 513

Let all the earth with songs rejoice; / Let heaven return the joyful voice.
– Richard Mant, Tr., “Christian Science Hymnal,” No. 168, adapt.

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