OUR CREATION STORY A LITANY 20 billion years

OUR CREATION STORY: A LITANY

20 billion years ago, God exploded a great m and from that were formed stars. Big stars, little stars. Some grew, some died. God saw that it was good…

10 billion years ago, our own solar grouping was formed from a cloud of particles. Our sun. Our planets. God saw that it was good…

Four and a half billion years ago, our planet earth: cool at its surface, molten at its core. Mountains, volcanoes. The oceans. And wisps of atmosphere. God saw that it was good…

4 billion years ago, out of a suitable molecular soup, a community of molecules able to reproduce themselves. Life was born. God saw that it was good…

Marine organisms. The development of ‘air’ as atmosphere. Plants. Photosynthesis. Fish. Mammals. Insects, birds and beasts. . God saw that it was good…

the first human-like Four million years ago animals. Our ancestors. With tools and works of art. Then tribes, with language and religion and myth. Then civilizations, with agriculture, advanced religions, written languages, abstract thought. God saw that it was good…

2 thousand years ago, the Word of God made flesh, Through whom all had come to be. The Word who enlightens all people. The Word closest to the Father’s heart. And now the first-born of all creation. And God saw that it was good…

And now our age: of travel and commerce, of technology and communication. The age of planet earth and ecology. God sees that it is good…

The day will come of the new heaven and the new earth; the day when all will be drawn together in the Word of God, and God shall be all in all.

God will then see that it is very good …Glory and praise to God forever.

…Glory and praise to God forever.