2. IN THE BEGINNING IS THE DREAMER ……

3. AND THE DREAMER IS GOD……. …..AND GOD IS THE DREAMER

4. And the Dreamer Dreams a Dream…

5. ….WHICH SPARKS THE KINDLING OF TIME AND SPACE

6. A Universe Flares Forth 13.7 BILLION YEARS AGO….. …the protons formed here are in the cells of your body; the potential for everything that would ever be including you, was present then

7. FROM DANCING ATOMS AFLAME WITH LOVE A BILLION GALAXIES TWIRL IN SPACE……

8. ...our home in the Universe...Including the Milky Way Galaxy….

9. STARS IGNITE TO FILL THE DARKNESS WITH THEIR LIGHT …. The elements in your body and in everything are formed here in the stars….iron, calcium, sulphur….. …....you are STARDUST! 12.5 BILLION YEARS AGO….

10. A star explodes 4.5 BILLION YEARS AGO……

11. Sun, moon and planets emerge, including Earth our privileged and fragile home …from its dust Our Solar System Unfolds…..

12. The love and attraction you feel were born here when the Earth formed an atmosphere and gravity 4.1 Billion yrs ago. You are held in the loving embrace of gravity from this time.

13. The rains fall for a million years and form oceans

14. Heat and light stir the sea and animate its chemistry

15. Behold a miracle! Earth awakens in a first born cell 4 billion years ago The bacteria in your body which you can’t live without was formed in the ancient seas 4 Billion years ago.

16. Cells unite ---alive with creativity 1 billion years ago

17. c. 3.9 B. yrs ago Earth learned to take nourishment from the sun through plants…photosynthesis was born We have been nourished by the abundance of the Earth from this time onwards

18. Your vertebrae developed in fish in the early oceans 510 Million years ago Fish of every colour, shape and size emerge. Life learns to swim ……

19. Your vertebrae developed in fish in the early oceans. The concentration of salt in your blood and tears is the same as that of the ancient seas. You have come out of the sea! Your vertebrae developed in fish in the early oceans.

20. Ocean waves leave sea plants on hot rocks---unable to crawl home they invent the wood cell---395 million years ago. 30% of DNA in our bodies is identical with plants

21. Earth in all beauty births forth a million species Insects emerge from the ancient oceans….. 395 Million years ago…. An astonishing 60% of the DNA in your body is the same as insects

22. Amphibians and Reptiles emerge from fish… Amazingly parts of your brain were formed at the time of the early reptiles and mammals

23. Out of the Reptiles emerged the Dinosaurs

24. Out of the dinosaurs.... birds emerge and Earth bursts into song 150million years ago

25. Flowers emerge to carpet earth with colour and fill our world with fragrance 120 million years ago The DNA IN YOUR BODY IS UP TO 30% SIMILAR TO FLOWERS AND PLANTS

26. Mammals in a thousand different shapes and sizes emerge 110 million years ago

30. 70-30M YEARS AGO PRIMATES EMERGE Your rotating shoulder was formed in our was formed in our primate ancestors swinging in the trees. You have evolved out of the chimps in the ancient forests! Astonishingly their DNA is 98.4% similar to your’s Astonishingly their DNA is 98.4% similar to your’s

31. FROM PRIMATES EARLIEST HUMANOID TYPES DEVELOP 2.6 MILLION YEARS AGO

32. EARTH COMES TO BIRTH IN THE SELF-CONSCIOUS HUMAN 40,000 YEARS AGO THE MODERN HUMAN EMERGES

33. Humans develop language and culture 40,000 years ago

34. 20,000 years ago… People experienced the creative energy of God…… pulsating through everything

35. Humans, on a journey to colonise the moon,…… C 35 years ago….

36. ….. turned around and saw Earth, as a whole, for the first time ! …one earth community …all made of the same building blocks …all related whether star, mountain, earthworm, tree, cloud, human or polar bear…in the total community of life GIFT OF SEEING THE WHOLE

37. WE DID NOT COME INTO THIS WORLD: WE GREW OUT OF IT

38. Genetically related to everything in the natural world…. we share this planet with millions of other beings in the Divine Mystery of the awesome Web of Life.

39. We come from the energy that fashioned the galaxies

40. we come out of the fire that gives birth to the universe: it is our beginning

41. We are made from elements fashioned in the stars We are stardust!

42. WE ARE ONE WITH ALL CREATION WE LIVE IN A COMPLEX WEB OF LIFE

43. Love unfolds a universe which is a communion of diverse beings, each of whom is sacred, each of whom is beloved.

44. The Story of the Universe is your story…. …..it is inside you waiting to be born