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+Sep 1
+=====
+
+Today we read the story of the creation of the sun and earth.
+
+    At the beginning of the big bang,
+    everything that can be seen --
+    everything that makes up the earth,
+    or the sun, or the clouds,
+    or the stars in the sky
+    -- was compressed
+    -- made to fit --
+    into a space much smaller
+    than the space taken now
+    by a human hand;
+    or even a finger;
+    or the smallest shaving
+    of a fingernail.
+
+14 billion years ago,
+January 1 on the Cosmic Calendar,
+At the stroke of midnight
+At the beginning of the new year--
+
+    Everything within that small space was identical everywhere.
+    There was nowhere any difference between light and dark,
+    or between full and empty;
+    but everything was full;
+    and it was as if all was dark,
+    because there was nowhere clear enough
+    for light to shine through.
+
+    And then the space expanded;
+    and there became the difference
+    between the full and the empty.
+    This was the Big Bang.
+
+15 minutes later on the Cosmic Calendar,
+or 370 thousand years after the big bang:
+
+    After the Big Bang began, space kept on expanding, getting bigger
+    and bigger, so that there was more and more emptiness to surround
+    all the things that would become the stars and the sun and the
+    earth.
+
+    It took fifteen minutes
+    on the Cosmic Calendar,
+    or 370 thousand years,
+    before there was enough emptiness
+    for light to shine
+    through the universe.
+
+    Then there was light,
+    and the emptiness expanded more and more,
+    and the empty spaces became like air bubbles
+    in a watery foam, surrounded by thin layers
+    of the things that would become the galaxies
+    and the stars and the sun and the earth.
+
+    As time went on and the empty voids grew bigger and bigger, the
+    full parts between them grew smaller and smaller, so that all the
+    things that would become galaxies came together toward each other,
+    collecting themselves into great flocks called filaments.  As the
+    filaments shrank smaller into themselves they began to form swirling
+    clouds called galaxies where the things within would swirl together
+    into spiraling clouds as well. So there were spiraling swirls and
+    clouds within spiraling swirls and clouds.
+
+Big Bang Tea Party
+==================
+
+