Directional Living

Recent circumstances produced this post. I suspect I am not the only one who has been here.

Directional Living

How easy it is to live horizontally,
Forgetting the vertical,
Stretching out rather than up,
Yammering frustration rather than
Offering praise,
Seeking in each other what
Only God can provide.
In the cross,
Vertical and horizontal meet,
God and man greet
In the One Incarnate,
Wholly holy God and man,
Freely gave His immaculate life
To end the strife sin wreaks
Between God and man,
Between man and man.
Only a right vertical relationship
Can make any right horizontal relationship possible.
Only in Christ crucified do vertical and horizontal connect
In perfection.