The Parent Pyramid

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Parenting is a pyramid scheme.  It is generated by two people who come together, committed to a belief (in God, family, children, etc.), who through an experience of true love, add more and more people to their pyramid.  Eventually these will move outward and touch the entire world for generations to come.

The benefit of the parenting pyramid is that there are no losers.  Not one person genuinely invested in it, who supports and promotes this pyramid, experiences deception or finds themselves in danger like they would in a fraudulent pyramid scheme.

In fact, if we consider the pyramid as being God’s structure (sans any trickery) for the family, it is a wonderful way to grow disciples and bring others into the fold where they can experience all of the joy and depth of being a child of God, including, hopefully, eventual salvation.

Beginning with the Father who loved us into being, we have received an innate desire to share that love with each other.  Whether it is through parenting or some other design of God’s, that desire to be loved and to share in it, is in each one of us.

It’s true that some of us reject it while some of us fully invest in it.  If we embrace our role in God’s divine plan to love him and to love each other, we are not merely participants.  By joining with him, we share in creating a loving network where we can work alongside and through him.  We perpetuate all that is good and all that we have been given.

In today’s passage from Psalm 27 (one of my favorite Psalms!) we plead with the Lord to show us his way, to lead us on a level path.  We make the profound statement that we can hope that we will enjoy his goodness in the “land of the living.”

The reference “land of the living” speaks of a return to the Jerusalem temple in the Psalm, which is the place where the presence of God was notable.

It is possible that our domestic churches (our families) can be a witness to the presence of the living God as well.  We, too, perhaps intangibly, can also be a beacon to all that is good and holy.

Janet Cassidy
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