Rick Hartwell

He is All

In the beginning there was void,

then division into night and day;

water, earth, an abundance of life.

God seemed to be a monarchist

or maybe even an aristocrat, but

Jesus was a leftist, a socialist,

perhaps even a communist.

Later came the triune nature of God;

four corners of an apostolic church;

seven sins cast from Magdalene;

multiple decades of the rosary;

twelve stations of the cross.

So much numerology rooted in the

foundations of Catholicism, then:

One Bread—

One Body—

One Church—

One God.

And suddenly,

it All makes sense.

He is All.

Rick Hartwell is a retired middle school teacher (remember the hormonally-challenged?) living in California with his wife of forty-nine years, Sally Ann (upon whom he is emotionally, physically, and spiritually dependent), two grown children, two granddaughters, and fifteen cats! Like Blake, Thoreau and Merton, he believes that the instant contains eternity.