First Thursdays: Kosmic Vespers
Kosmic Vespers
Thursday, September 4th at 4 pm EDT.
Theme: Thomas Berry’s three great principles that shape the universe and our lives within it:
Differentiation: every being, from star to salamander, is unique, unrepeatable, and precious.
Interiority: each being carries its own depth—its own inner life, mystery, and story.
Communion: no being exists alone; all are woven in relationship, interdependent and entangled. Our esteemed guest, science ambassador, JD Stillwater, will guide us deeper into the first of these—differentiation—reminding us that diversity is not accident, but the very way the universe sings itself into being.
Penny will speak on Communion as it is present in quantum fields… And we’ll spend time in silence and emergent dialogue that represents all three. Interiority, Differentiation & Communion
Join us as we take a sacred pause to enter into silence, deep listening. and experience the space we co-create. Wonder at the cosmos above, wonder at the Earth beneath our feet, and wonder at the gift of being human—threads of stardust and soil gather to touch into our lives from a deeptime perspective.
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.
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.
