First Thursdays: Kosmic Vespers
An Invitation into Engaged, Entangled Contemplation Join us in a sacred pause— a moment of stillness grounded in wonder, as we live into the profound questions of our time. Here, we gather to meet our modes of knowing differently. To be with the mystery of existence—together.
“There are only two ways to live your life:
One is as though nothing is a miracle:
The other is as though everything is a miracle.” —Albert Einstein
Join Penny Andrews, Mary Ann Wamhoff, Bob Isenberger and Gail Ransom as they lead us in appreciating this time for contemplating and celebrating our most amazing Universe, our planet from which it emerged, ourselves and all Creation.
“It’s not easy to describe Cosmology.
It is neither science nor religion.
Cosmology is a way of knowing— an intimate mode of awareness.” —Thomas Berry
Awe Is Not in the Distance. It’s a Remembrance.
Kosmic Vespers is a space of reverent inquiry—a coming-together where we bow before the vast unfolding of the Universe…. as we remember: the bowing body is stardust, gathered into breath and bone. And this vastness isn’t something we look at from afar, but something that pulses through our daily lives—
To be in awe of the Universe is to feel its immensity.
To be of it is to remember we are made of its very unfolding.
“We are all connected—to each other, biologically;
to the Earth, chemically;
to the rest of the Universe atomically.” —Neil deGrasse Tyson
Living Awe: A Practice of Entanglement
Kosmic Vespers invites us to ask: How do we bring the sacred back into the ordinary?
How do we live as if everything is miracle— not in abstraction, but in the compost, the coffee cup, the quiet act of repair?
How do we carry cosmic awe into daily entanglement—in our justice=making, our grief, our becoming?
Kosmic Vespers is a practice of metabolizing this way of knowing. Not transcendence, but a return to relational presence.
Awe, not as escape—but as remembrance.
Wonder, not as spectacle—but as intimate knowledge.
You, not as spectator—but as stardust, constellated and co-weaving.
We meet quarterly….upcoming Kosmic Vespers:
“First Thursdays”:
September 4th, 4 pm EDT.
December 4th, 4 pm EDT.
There is a field, let’s meet there.
Collaborators: Penny Andrews, Bob Isenberger, Mary Ann Wamhoff, Gail Ransom
To participate in this free offering, please register below (register once and use the same meeting information for each session).
Donations welcome via Venmo
For specific dates and time see our calendar here.
