Flash Fiction

Moved today as I am by the Supreme Court's ruling to uphold the separation of church and state so that we may live our faith as it feels most natural and righteous to us, I imagine a world where the separation of church and state is not necessary because the only law is LOVE.

Coming To Utopia
"As the world celebrates the official decision in Syria to join the World Congress and accept legal, social, and economic equality with and for all of the people in their country," Bill O'Reilly began, "we invite you to listen to His Holiness, the emissary of God, on this momentous occasion."

The screen showed an old man, in the simple clothing of Christ and Muhammad and per-Christianity Jews, adorned with nothing more than his glasses, standing before a podium in front of the World Congress.

"My fellow divinely created beings," he began in a voice roughened and aged by the many of years of his lifetimes, "Three years ago, the Creator sent me through the Temple in Jerusalem -- that you rebuilt with love, cooperation, and respect -- to welcome you today to this new world of peace," he finished. The old man brought his hands before him in prayer, bowed his head, kissed his thumbs and whispered to the world, "Unbunto." I am because you are.

Through the generations that began with microscopic particles, the world had slowly evolved over millennia, they had evolved into people who did not live the Word, they were the Word. In all faiths, in all lands, in all ways.

From above, the King of Kings, the Creator, the Engineer, the Artist, and the First Love, God Almighty, checked off the third task on his to-do list.