Ep 792 - The Ideal Home and World Peace Part 5
The Ideal Home and World Peace - December 26, 2022
PDF Printable Text and Images + Testimony Isabel Gonzalez
Key Points
The quality and level of Jesus’ sacrificial love has changed 2,000 years of history. Can we imagine the impact that of our True Parents will have?
The power of true truth and true love is the fact that it changes the country and the world.
As the fruit of love between two parents, children wish for their parents to be the most loving, ideal husband and wife.
For children, a divorce between their parents is a living nightmare and impossible to comprehend.
To the children, the love between their parents is the origin and root of their being and the foundation of their existence.
The husband-wife relationship is naturally everlasting.
Immorality, sexual promiscuity and divorce are grave mistakes that violate heavenly law.
The most important education for children is ethical and moral education. Knowledge and techniques can easily be learned quickly in the spiritual world, but education in heart and love can only be obtained through experience in the environment of the four Great Realms of Heart in the physical world.
Without having experienced that in the physical world, you have to come down to Earth again and experience it.
When the power of unprincipled love collides with us, we can overcome it if we always give and receive with God’s love along with the power of the Principle.
We need to be grateful and joyful in any situation.
Rather than praying before meals, it is more precious to have gratitude while slowly eating one bite at a time.
Our life of faith must always be lived with everything centered on God and His Words. We should give meaning to everything.
When we start anything, we need to live in a way of establishing principled conditions with a grateful heart while thinking about the three stages of formation, growth, and completion.
Setting principled conditions should become a good habit, and we have to keep going until that good habit comes from our heart.
Transcripts from November 3, 2021 to the present, personal notes from November 11, 2020 until November 2, 2021 and slides from August 29, 2021 to the present are available at MD.Hoondok.com as PDF files.♦
Did you spend Christmas with your family yesterday? What we need to know is that Christmas is not centered on my family, but on Jesus. The reason why Jesus is so precious is because, ever since the fall of Adam and Eve, Jesus has become the first ancestor of humankind and is the origin of God's true love, true life, and true lineage.
Is Jesus really the King and Lord in your life and in your family? Now, all Christmas events have become a means of business or a holiday that families just enjoy. Now we must come to the original look of Jesus.
Above all, we believe that we must inherit the tradition of love in which Jesus loved and sacrificed (for) God and humankind more than anyone else. In particular, the level of true love (with which) Jesus loved his enemies and the quality of that love led the 2,000-year history of Christianity. The quality and level of one person's love has changed 2,000 years of history. We must become disciples and children who truly inherit the love of Jesus.
As I spend Christmas, I think about how much my love and sincerity can change the world around me, my family, the United States, and the world. I think a lot about Jesus’ life today. The power of true truth and true love is the fact that it changes the country and the world.
My level of jeongseong, my level of heart, my quality of jeongseong, my quality of love, how much can it change my society, my nation, my mission area in the United States? We really need to resemble Jesus. Just one person with that level and quality of jeongseong can change all of human history.
Can you imagine after 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 years how much impact on all humankind will our True Parents’ love and sacrifice have?
Today I’d like to talk about “The Ideal Home and World Peace” from True Mother’s Anthology, Book 2.
<This speech was given at the 2nd International Convention of the Women's Federation for World Peace, held on August 23, 1995, at Hotel Lotte World, Seoul, Korea > According to heavenly law, parents were meant to be true parents, as well as true teachers. The education that children need most is not the education of knowledge or techniques. The most important education for children is ethical and moral education. This education for life is essential and can be taught only by parents at home. Children learn, feel and resemble their parents' most valuable examples of love and the basic order of life. Children need a model they can learn from and follow. Regardless of whether parents realize it or not, they are their children's most important teachers. Children imitate and learn from their parents' pattern. There is no teacher more important than parents who can show a child the correct direction in life.
As the fruit of love between two parents, children wish for their parents to be the most loving, ideal husband and wife. Children feel happiness from this loving relationship. For children, a divorce between their parents is a living nightmare and impossible to comprehend. This is because children also partake of the love between their parents. To the children, the love between their parents was the origin and root of their being. They cannot imagine the foundation of their existence being ripped apart. If the parent-child relationship is a naturally indivisible relationship, should not the husband-wife relationship, which was the root and motive of the parent-child relationship, also be naturally everlasting? Immorality, sexual promiscuity and divorce are grave mistakes that violate heavenly law. These phenomena are the result of the Fall. Neither God nor an individual's original mind desires them.
According to heavenly law, the education that children need most is not the education of knowledge or techniques. The most important education for children is ethical and moral education. When you go to the spirit world, any difficult content in education of knowledge or tech niques can all be understood within a few hours or days.
But education in heart and love can only be obtained through experience. Heart and love are impossible to learn without the environment of the 4 Great Realms of Heart here in the physical world. If you go to the spirit world without having experienced that in the physical world, you have to come down to Earth again and experience it.
Regardless of whether parents realize it or not, they are their children's most important teachers. Children imitate and learn from their parents' pattern. There is no teacher more important than parents who can show a child the correct direction in life.
As the fruit of love between father and mother, children wish for their parents to be the most loving, ideal husband and wife. Children feel happiness from this loving relationship.
This is because children also partake (in) the love between their parents. To the children, the love between their parents was the origin and root of their being. They cannot imagine the foundation of their existence being ripped apart.
Immorality, sexual promiscuity and divorce are grave mistakes that violate heavenly law. These phenomena are the result of the Fall. Neither God nor an individual's original mind desires them.
Heart and love can only be experienced and learned while on the earth. Once you go to the spiritual world, there is no way to experience them.
LIVING DIVINE PRINCIPLE: The Human Fall 14 - The Power of Love, the Power of the Principle and God’s Commandment
• Human beings are created through the Principle, and they are meant to live according to the way of the Principle.
• Therefore, it cannot be that the force inherent in the Principle would induce a person to deviate from the way of the Principle and cause him to fall.
• This may be compared to a train which cannot run off track unless aside from a breakdown in the track or locomotive, some outside force stronger than the train’s forward momentum collides with it and pushes it in a different direction.
• Similarly, the force inherent in the Principle guides human beings’ growth in the proper direction. But if some stronger force from a different direction and with an unprincipled purpose collides with them, they will surely fall.
• The force stronger than the force of the Principle is none other than the power of love.
• While human beings are in the state of immaturity, it is possible that the power of unprincipled love can induce them to fall.
• Without God’s love, there is no way to establish the true four position foundation, which is the purpose for which we were created; hence, love is truly the source and wellspring of our life and happiness.
• Although God created human beings based on the Principle, He governs us through love. Accordingly, in order for love to fulfill its proper role, its power must be stronger than the power of the Principle.
• If the power of love were weaker than the power of the Principle, human beings would pursue the Principle more than the love of God. For this reason, Jesus tried to raise his disciples with the truth, but it was his love that saved them.
The Power of Love, the Power of the Principle and God’s Commandment
1. Thus once the human body is to live on the purpose of God’s creation, satisfaction and peace can be established. Likewise when the human mind is to live within God’s words, that is, truth, freedom and peace can arise. Therefore the power of the Principle is being generated consistently from the human mind. That is why the power of the Principle itself that aims to live on God’s words cannot induce a person to deviate from the way of the Principle and cause him to fall.
2. This may be compared to a train which cannot run off track unless there is a breakdown in the track or locomotive, some outside force stronger than the train’s forward momentum collides with it and pushes it in a different direction.
John 8:32-34: Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.”
When human beings live according to God’s original purpose of creation, we can enjoy true freedom and peace, but if we have unprincipled thoughts or life or commit sins, we experience uneasiness, conflicts, agony, and estrangement and become slaves to sin.
However, the power of the Principle itself that aims to live on God’s words cannot induce a person to deviate from the way of the Principle and cause him to fall. This may be compared to a train which cannot run off track unless there is a breakdown in the track or locomotive.
But even that train is bound to run off track when an outside force stronger than the train’s forward momentum collides with it and pushes it in a different direction. Therefore, when the power of unprincipled love collides (with) you, you can overcome any outside force of love if you always give and receive (with) God’s love along with the power of the Principle.
It is difficult to overcome the strong power of horizontal love that comes from outside with human power alone. So you cannot overcome the power of horizontal love if you do not absolutely depend on God’s love.
Therefore, our life of faith has to value the relationship between God and me, parents and me, and Abel and me (as) we value life. Since it is impossible for me to overcome through horizontal love, I must always overcome through vertical relationships. That is why these vertical relationships are our lifeline.
Without connecting to God, without help from Abel, without the help of the spiritual world centered on our jeongseong, it is impossible to overcome horizontal temptation, horizontal love. Without faith it is impossible.
Adam and Eve were not fallen before the fall. How about now? We are the descendants of fallen ancestors. So it is more difficult for us. In order to overcome that kind of temptation and horizontal love without God, without clear alignment toward God, and without relating to Abel substantially, without studying God’s word, without borrowing power from the spiritual world, it is impossible to overcome. That is why your vertical alignment invisibly centering on God, visibly centered on your Abel, and your relationship with your father and mother are very important. If you have that kind of clear vertical alignment centered on filial piety, then you can overcome horizontal temptation, (your) horizontal environment, any kind of difficulty. That is why the vertical alignment is really a lifeline.
TODAY’S YOUTH MINISTRY: A Principled Way of Life Centered on Numbers
Eat with Gratitude While Creating the Taste of Food
1. Even when eating, people who live by the Word should find taste and eat, whether they’re eating stew or side dishes. When we eat, we cannot eat while saying “oh, it’s time to eat” just because mealtime has come. While harmonizing rice and side dishes well, we must know how to put it in our mouths and create and bring out their tastes. Putting the given food into the mouth and producing the taste is each (person)’s own responsibility.
If there is no taste, I need to eat while putting the food in my mouth and chewing it many times while creating a taste. Even when eating food that is not tasty, I need to chew it many times and create a taste. So, whatever kind of food it is, when it enters my mouth, I need to eat with gratitude and create the taste. We see a lot of people praying before eating, but there aren’t many people who are grateful while eating. In those times, rather than praying before meals, it is more precious to have gratitude while slowly eating one bite at a time.
When we eat, do we eat because it’s meal time or because we long for food? And rather than following our spiritual life conditionally or principally, we must do so with longing because our original selves want to.
While harmonizing rice and side dishes well, we must know how to put it in our mouths and create and bring out their tastes. Putting the given food into the mouth and producing the taste is each (person)’s own responsibility. If there is no taste, I need to eat joyfully while putting the food in my mouth and chewing it many times while creating a taste.
Don’t just complain. Any food that comes to me, I need to digest it and appreciate it. Appreciating is my portion of responsibility even if the taste is not so good. When I chew it again and again, the food becomes more tasty... Sometimes when the food is not so delicious, I think of Father’s life in Heungnam Prison; then (the) taste comes out. Can you imagine in Heungnam Prison how good any food would taste? Any food would be so delicious!
Just as our responsibility is to bring out the taste of food and eat, in our life of faith as well, no matter what kind of environment we are in, we need to be grateful and joyful in any situation.
We see a lot of people praying before eating, but there aren’t many people who are grateful while eating. In those times, rather than praying before meals, it is more precious to have gratitude while slowly eating one bite at a time.
I often had a chance to have a meal with Rev. Yo Han Lee. Sometimes I felt very strange because he did not pray. He just had a meal (without praying). One day I challenged (him) and asked, “Rev. Yo Han Lee, how come you don’t pray before having a meal?” He smiled and said, “I appreciate each dish, each meal. I am so grateful.” I was so surprised. I learned from him. Of course, before I have a meal, I have to pray.
When I have a meal, each kind of food is so tasty, and I really appreciate (it). Since I returned home, I was so surprised. My third child’s cooking is amazing! He really tries to help his mother by cooking. His cooking is really wonderful! I am enjoying every meal.
I seldom eat rice and a kind of powder, but here at home whatever meal they have, whether meat or rice or kimchee, I need to digest it. I really enjoy it.
Normally I only eat two meals a day. I don’t have dinner. But mealtime is a very good time to communicate with each other. That is why I decided to have mealtime with my family. We have give-and-take and sharing (about) this and that. Wow! I feel that food is love. And meal time is a time to have more heartistic connections with each other. So I enjoy the time of eating as a really good time to have give-and-take among our family members.
True Father’s Mindset When Having a Meal or Going Out
2. In the beginning, when Father had meals, he ate while giving meaning to eat bite, such as “one spoonful for formation, one spoonful for growth, one spoonful for completion.” We must also resemble that part of Father and try to eat meals with a heart that says “the first spoonful of formation is for God, the second spoonful of growth is for True Parents, the third spoonful of completion is for the world and humankind.”
Even when going out from the house, we must live stepping forward with the mindset that the first step of formation is a step for God, the second step of growth is a step for True Parents, and the third step of completion is a step for completing my responsibility. When we start any task, if we do them while thinking about formation, growth, and completion like this, we must believe that God will protect the remaining time and guide us.
Life of faith must always be lived with everything centered on God and His Words We should give meaning to everything. When you eat, with what kind of heart and principled condition are you eating with?
Do you eat with a heart that says, “The first spoonful of formation is for God, the second spoonful of growth is for True Parents, the third spoonful of completion is for the world and humankind”?
Even when going out from the house, do you live stepping forward with the mindset that the first step of formation is a step for God, the second step of growth is a step for True Parents, and the third step of completion is a step for completing my responsibility?
Always we need to have a principled lifestyle. Even though there is a condition – formation stage, growth stage, completion stage -- at least I do a three- level condition – the rest of steps, the rest of the process of my course becomes a condition (in which) God can intervene.
Conditions are not just for conditions. Why do we set up conditions? Through conditions I heartisticly, internally connect to Heavenly Parent’s and True Parents’ heart. As a fallen man it is easy to forget to do this kind of principled condition.
A Principled Way of Life Centered on Numbers
4. In the beginning, when True Parents guided our life of faith, they highly emphasized a principled way of life and mathematical life centered on the Principle. Even as Father drank a cup of water, he had a lot of gratitude and gave a lot of praise about water. In Cheongpyeong, people who attended True Parents put Cheongpyeong water in bottles and took them all the way to Cheongpadong and gave the water to True Parents. True Father loved water in that way. He said that Seoul water and Cheongpyeong water are very different. We drink water without being able to distinguish whether it is regular house water or Cheongpyeong water, but Father was very sensitive about taste.
He also said that we cannot pray thoughtlessly and repeat the same things. And even when eating, he said to have the spirit of fulfilling one’s responsibilities and eat. He said that we must think that through this food, we should know about God’s heart and True Parents’ heart, so we must reflect on how much we are really living while knowing God’s heart. We should always think of the three stages of formation, growth, and completion and put three spoonfuls of food into our mouth in that order and eat slowly while creating taste. And as we do that, a heart of gratitude must spring up while tasting that.
When we start anything, we need to live in a way of establishing principled conditions while thinking about formation, growth, and completion like this. If you set principled conditions like this, God will take over, but if not, it becomes a human-centered life and Satan takes over.
When drinking water or praying or having meals, we need to always think about God and set principled conditions and do it with a truly grateful heart.
Especially while you eat, you need to think: “Am I fulfilling my responsibilities and eating?” And you have to eat while reflecting whether or not you are eating while knowing God’s heart and True Parents’ heart.
Setting principled conditions should become a good habit, and we have to keep going until that good habit comes from our heart. Do not stop with a habitual life.
That is why we always need to set up principled conditions. Setting up principled conditions becomes a habit that finally reaches our heart. When it reaches our heart, it becomes very natural. There is no need of conditions any more. Why do we set up the conditions? ... Nothing dealing with conditions any more(?). Then it becomes very natural, very heartistic. It always comes out of the heart.
In order to reach that level, we need to start (with) principled conditions – at least formation stage, growth stage, completion stage, three steps, when you go out or when you have a meal; at least three times you need to think about it. The first spoon is for God; the second is for True Parents, and the third is for all humankind – at least three levels of condition; then the rest becomes more heartistic, more grateful and connect to Heavenly Parent’s heart and True Parents’ heart. Even though they are small conditions, it is important to teach this to our young children and our youth group.
Today we learned how to apply the Divine Principle when we have a meal, when we do some kind of job.
(Testimony Isabel Gonzalez, GPA 2nd year)♦
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