To longing deep and universal
"If I could just be free!" --
Is this fact divine so comforting
That all can come to see:
Man is and ever has been in God --
His perfect child, eternally.
For we are not the slaves of
Influences prenatal, hereditary, or
Environmental,
Not helpless before circumstances,
Never under carnal mind's curse
For a year, a day, an hour.
These are truths Christ Jesus knew,
And they gave him wondrous power.
This knowledge Christian Science imparts --
Saving knowledge so glorious --
That we're not hemmed in by fleshly starts,
Or happenings in this mortal dream,
But are right now the way He made us.
Fortunate world that there is revealed
Crucial things that all can claim and see,
(Things God has always known about us)
That now and through all eternity
We are His loved child, His very own --
Immensely blessed and whole and free.
