This Earth is full of beauty

For those with open eyes;

This world is full of wonder

Which makes the pilgrim wise.

Through love we find a pathway

To heaven on this Earth;

Forgiveness heals the hatred

Which undermines our worth.

 

This life brings joy and sadness

And no-one is exempt

But we control the process

Of wonder or contempt.

The grief of all our failures,

The hurt from other days

Need not enslave the present

Nor turn our hearts from praise.

 

O God of all life’s fullness,

Of laughter and of pain,

To you we come with wonder

In sunshine and the rain.

Beyond the narrow bound’ries

Of human ways of thought

We find your wond’rous mystr’y

That can’t be earned or bought.

 

Text and Music © William Livingstone Wallace.

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