Feel the earth turn - do not become dizzy
To be whirling more rapidly than mind can imagine.
Feel how small we are in this majesty.
Feel yourself lost in this vast cosmic silence.
Feel how great we are in our minds
That we can comprehend our finitude in our souls,
That we can praise the immensity of it all
And the smallness of the we-in-the-all.
Feel the earth turn.
It turned on its great axis before we were born.
It will circle its star-sun long after our demise.
Feel the earth turn -
Its dance through space for us,
Its pageant a feast for our eyes,
A banquet for our tasting,
Now, while there is yet time.
Feel the earth turn -
Summer into autumn into winter into spring,
Season without end.
Amen.
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