'Joy to the earth! the Savior reigns; let all their songs employ;
While fields and floods, rock, hills, and plains repeat the sounding joy.'
---Isaac Watts
'All the sounds of the earth are like music.' Although Isaac Watts and Oscar Hammerstein II were separated by some 200 years, their thoughts in these two texts are remarkably similar; there is a kind of joy in creation that longs, aches, to express itself. There is a music in nature, a sacred melody that calls to all creation to dance along. The elements gratefully offer up joy in echo of the Joy that spoke them into being forever ago, and we are called to add our voices to the song.
Joy, nature sings...
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