Horizontal vs. Vertical

Most of our concerns are horizontal. We work to ensure that we have adequate cash flow to survive and prosper. Most of our efforts are expended on various types of material goods around us.

Above us is a level that’s invisible to those who spend all their time looking around them for opportunities on earth. We should endeavor to spend some time looking up, as well. There, we find The Loving Programmer, realize that He has programmed and downloaded each of us human programs within The Creation Program.

As we spend more time considering Him and His Program, we tend to do better with our earthly concerns.

When we have children, we are thinking vertically. We are stop spending so much effort on getting as we do on giving. We see our children as our effect on, and links to, the future. Then, we realize that we have a clear duty to do our best for them. The best thing we can do is provide them access to The Loving Programmer. That’s done through the Sacraments.

We should always do what we can to encourage Baptism and Confirmation. From them, our children download the guidance they need to have and properly raise children of their own.

Children deprived of access to The Loving Programmer simply don’t do as well. So, we should think vertically, and rise through time.

Author's Notes:

Related:

Being Catholic cures This Headache: “Sin and…

Today’s Simple Rhyme: “Past, present, and future are One / With God’s Union / in Catholic Communion!”...
Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

From God to Isaiah to Jesus to Paul to us:…

Catholics look closely at what Jesus is handing to His First Catholic Pope. ~ Question 1: “Where does...

Today’s Reading tells us why to Be Catholic!

Today's Simple Rhyme: "Those who are 'scattered' / are always 'battered' / by the devil's demons."...

Catholic Daily Readings are a blessing.

Catholic Daily Readings help souls get into Heaven. Today’s Words of Jesus are not just for the Jewish...

Saint Paul’s Message to the Athenians: A Call…

Saint Paul's discourse at the Areopagus invites all to recognize the one true God and embrace the fullness...
Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

May all be blessed with This Cure for…

Today's Simple Rhyme: "May all of us be blessed to see: / Jesus Christ knows more than me!"...