In the Beginning

In the Beginning

In the beginning

was the Great Radiance

fourteen billion years ago

In the beginning

was the Great Radiance

fourteen billion years ago

Out of the fireball

came simple hydrogen

and helium from that great glow

Out of the fireball

came simple hydrogen

and helium from that great glow

Gravity swirled those

gases into stars

white, yellow, blue, and red

Gravity swirled those

gases into stars

white, yellow, blue, and red

But no dancing planets

till the birth of silicon,

calcium, iron, and lead

But no dancing planets

till the birth of silicon,

calcium, iron, and lead

The first generations

of ancestor stars squeezed

primal gases into stone

The first generations

of ancestor stars squeezed

primal gases into stone

Into oxygen

and into nitrogen

into calcium for antler and bone

Into oxygen

and into nitrogen

into calcium for antler and bone

Then they expired and

launched back into space

atoms born of pressure and strife

Then they expired and

launched back into space

atoms born of pressure and strife

So later generations

of stars like our own sun

could have planets

and maybe even life

So later generations

of stars like our own sun

could have planets

and maybe even life

We are made of stardust

We are born from death

Greet your cousins

who twinkle in the night

We are made of stardust

We are born from death

Greet your cousins

who twinkle in the night

What do we savor

in our brief flick’ring lives?

What do we leave

for our descendants delight?

What do we savor

in our brief flick’ring lives?

What do we leave

for our descendants delight?

Gravity swirled those

gases into stars

red, yellow, blue, and white

Gravity swirled those

gases into stars

red, yellow, blue, and white

What do we savor

in our brief flick’ring lives?

What do we leave

for our descendants delight?

What do we savor

in our brief flick’ring lives?

What do we leave

for our descendants delight?

What do we savor

in our brief flick’ring lives?

What do we leave

for our descendants delight?

What do we savor

in our brief flick’ring lives?

What do we leave

for our descendants delight?

What do we leave

for our descendants delight?

What do we leave

for our descendants delight?

In the Beginning

In the Beginningby Connie Barlow

written for our Solar System’s first

“Evolutionary Revival”February 2008

at First Unitarian Universalist Church

San Diego, CA

by Connie Barlowwritten for our Solar System’s first

“Evolutionary Revival”February 2008

at First Unitarian Universalist Church

San Diego, CA

Photos courtesy of the Cosmos

and its technologically gifted life forms

Photos courtesy of the Cosmos

and its technologically gifted life forms

TheGreatStory.org/evolutionary-revival.html

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