Good enough

In the fraction of an instant,

A small singularity became

the universe. A single point

        •

inflated into all that is.

And it was just a lightless

boiling soup of particles

for three hundred

eighty thousand years.

Until God cooled it

with his breath

and light was freed.

What science calls the CMB;

the cosmic microwave background

God saw that it was good.

And there was day and night,

there was morning and evening.

And in the next long days

there came to be

land and sea,

Sharks and snails,

doves and dinosaurs,

mosquitos, apples,

sequoias and gardenias.

And God saw that it was good.

On the sixth day,

he sculpted man and woman,

and gave them dominion over

all the good things

that he’d created,

Birds and beasts,

heirloom tomatoes.

And he saw that it

was good enough.

The rest is up to us.