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In the Beginning: The Cosmic Dance of Creation and Life

"In the Beginning" explores the origins of the universe, revealing how simple elements formed into stars, planets, and eventually, the very life that inhabits our world. From the Great Radiance fourteen billion years ago to the birth of stardust that comprises our very being, this poetic narrative invites us to reflect on our fleeting existence and the legacy we leave behind. Written by Connie Barlow for the Solar System's first "Evolutionary Revival," this piece celebrates the interconnectedness of all life and the beauty of our cosmic heritage.

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In the Beginning: The Cosmic Dance of Creation and Life

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  1. In the Beginning

  2. In the beginning was the Great Radiance fourteen billion years ago

  3. Out of the fireball came simple hydrogen and helium from that great glow

  4. Gravity swirled those gases into stars white, yellow, blue, and red

  5. But no dancing planets till the birth of silicon, calcium, iron, and lead

  6. The first generations of ancestor stars squeezed primal gases into stone

  7. Into oxygen and into nitrogen into calcium for antler and bone

  8. Then they expired and launched back into space atoms born of pressure and strife

  9. So later generations of stars like our own sun could have planets and maybe even life

  10. We are made of stardust We are born from death Greet your cousins who twinkle in the night

  11. What do we savor in our brief flick’ring lives? What do we leave for our descendants delight?

  12. Gravity swirled those gases into stars red, yellow, blue, and white

  13. What do we savor in our brief flick’ring lives? What do we leave for our descendants delight?

  14. What do we savor in our brief flick’ring lives? What do we leave for our descendants delight?

  15. What do we leave for our descendants delight?

  16. In the Beginning by Connie Barlow written 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

  17. TheGreatStory.org /evolutionary-revival.html

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