My Family's Christmas Miracle

I experienced a miracle after seven years of learning the deep teachings of the Divine Principle and God wants me to share a lot lately that is very personal and hard for me, but I have to learn how to step out of the way of His message.  Someone reading this either will laugh at it, understand or learn from it.

If this was the only miracle that has happened in the last year with my family then maybe it would not stand out so much, but it is just the icing and the most recent.  Once a cheater always a cheater they say, but when God puts His love on it, then it can change anyone.

I'll give you a little background and maybe this event will have more significance. 

My uncle and aunt of course in center, his
grandchildren, daughter, 2 sons and brother are on my
dad's side, the Morris'

March of 2010 I moved back to the countryside of deep south Arkansas with 200 population and most of it family.  Both my mother and father's side live within a three mile radius. That's aunts, cousins and up to fourth cousins on both sides and everywhere.  I moved back because God called me back to witness what I have learned for 5 years in California and that was I had been awaken to the Messiah walking the earth and the Divine Principle.  That's a story in itself and the teachings I share on my blog.  His name is Reverend Sun Myung Moon, performs mass weddings, which my WHOLE family was trying to get me out because they thought I was part of a cult and so may you, but they ALL have changed their mind.

What the teachings profess is that Jesus was meant to accomplish more of his mission which was to marry, have children and leave God's pure blood lineage on the earth, but because he did not have anyone who truly followed him in the end, he had to go the second route of the cross to save us.  Jesus comes back to accomplish this and to bring his lineage to this earth and to reverse the beginning of sin that occurred in the Garden of Eden between a man and woman and he was to reverse it as a true man to marry his true bride.  Thus, the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.  This prophecy was fulfilled in our time. 

In short, God had an original ideal of Heaven on Earth before Adam and Eve had disbelieved in His command and were vanished from the Garden of Eden which caused you and me to be born outside of God's protective realm ... thus we have sin perpetuated nonstop throughout history.

I say all of this to give you why my VERY strong christian family were adamant that I was following the wrong way.  But, they can't deny it now because I'm still standing, and they see that I have grown and that there is a change between us all. 

Especially with this latest event.

I believe with the teaching of the Divine Principle, which I share and take more than three hours a day to prepare dozens of material for different avenues online to share the news, I have been witnessing miracles not only within my family, but with every single person who has supported me even with a smile.  Friends, families, associate have been flooded with new jobs after years of searching, marriages after long engagement, cures to diseases, high exposure for their new book, people getting back together etc.  Everyone except me.  This is my sacrifice, "live for the sake of others" is Rev. Moon's biggest motto. 

My father, one of the healthiest men I know, found out last February at 60 he had Prostate cancer even though he just had a check up 6 months ago.  They said if he had waited 6 more months for his annual check up it would have been too late.  So, I flew out to North Carolina and not only am I in love with my father now, forgave him for the past and know him better than ever because of this, he is alive and recovered weeks early without the use of any pain medication.

Then today I just came from a wedding.  Big deal right?  Well, if you knew the story it is.  Right when I came back almost three years ago, I had found out my aunt and uncle had separated after over 20 years of marriage.  I started going to my cousin's church which he was a pastor down the street and supported him as much as possible, which they couldn't understand because for some reason they thought my 'cult' didn't believe in Jesus.  Family from both side of my parent's attended this church.  I felt like Jesus with all of the damn resistance I had with every single person about my belief that the Messiah had returned..

Too long of a story on that, but long story short, my aunt told me she left the house a year ago because he was cheating on her.  At that time, I just knew that with the teachings of restoring the family that God originally planned, and all of the work of reversing our family's history of going in the wrong direction that it was possible for this situation to change. I had at that time been working hard with God and through the direct teachings of the professed Messiah to reverse my family's wrong path.

I told her give him a year and he would return.  Well, it became worse.  He actually left his house sold it and moved in with this woman and her family.  Well, to tell you how hickish my family is, this other woman is on my mother's side - the other woman's sister is married to my mother's brother, my uncle on my mother's side.

I didn't grow up like this, I never lived around family ever until this time.  I grew up in a different world, I came back here for a purpose, so this is like foreign to me as well.

Anyway, I told her one time when we went out to eat alone together that I was sorry for getting her hopes up, I thought it was going to happen after the two year mark and I don't understand why he is still with her with all the prayer and conditions of faith.

Well, my uncle is my blood uncle on my father's side so he told me to pray for him.  All the time.  I told my aunt that the other woman's family was from Louisiana and into voodoo which I heard straight from my uncle's wife on my mother's side.  Crazy stuff when I write this. Meaning he was with this woman because of the occult.  And they think I AM into some crazy stuff.  But they told Jesus the same; that they said that he was doing his works with the help of the devil.

So, I prayed and talked to them both separately in confidence. I remember the stories from my aunt when I would Facebook her on the holidays and she would tell me I was the only one who said anything to her that day.  She was so lonely!  She didn't date, she went to restaurants alone and even said a waitress asked her why she was alone and the waitress was ashamed after she told her, her story of her husband leaving.  But never did my aunt have any bad words to say about my uncle *unlike my mother about my father.

One main reason why I returned to the south is what Rev. Moon says: Be a Tribal Messiah to your family, tribe and to return them to God.  I had written a 400 page book for my family of a fictional account of my spiritual experiences being visited by ancestors who had done bad things in the past and we are paying for their sins. 

They actually read it and even said that one character I fictionalized had that exact same name, and even misspelled the name the same way and was just like her even though I never heard about her before or lived in the same time frame.  Well, my family is with God, but they don't know him without the Completed Testament (Divine Principle is not an addition to the bible it is based of the Old testament and New Testament) which tells us the hidden messages of the bible and the why and how of war and sin on the earth and finally, how it is being eradicated.  So, merely that the Messiah comes to take his people to the clouds is false, God always wanted to restore the earth, not kill everybody and just save a few.  Who knew?

Long story short, my uncle's mother, my last grandparent, died two months ago and just before that my uncle had made peace with her and God.  He was deemed the black sheep and had just came back home along with his heart to my grandmother days before he found her on the ground moaning after she fell out from her stroke and went into a coma until she had to be unplugged.

At her funeral he sung a song where he could barely finish because he was singing thank you Jesus,God because he was supposed to be dead and he is back in the Lord's arm.

Well TODAY, a few hours ago he just was REmarried on my grandmother's birthday to his wife after leaving her four years ago.

Right after the ceremony and before the picture taking, my uncle said something that was amazing because I never told him how I felt about him leaving.  I hugged him and told him that I prayed for him all the time.  He said that, "I know.  I know this is what you always wanted for a long time." He looks so much like my dad, I just hugged him and then he added, "Only God could have done this." If you just knew how much of a Don Juan, player whatever he was, you would know you witnessed a miracle for him to say this.

This was my mission to help my family in their situation.  Their problem is my problem which is God's problem.  Before, I never cared about people's problems until I started studying the Divine Principle and Unification Thought.

Before I came back to my family, their children under 25 were dying from cars running off the road, into trees, motorcycles running into a swimming pool in the middle of the street, dying of new diseases at the time, as babies from choking on a hot dog and now my family's curses are turning around into blessings.  After a year of my return only the elderly have died where before, one young cousin a year was dying.  I am truly starting to see Heaven on Earth.  It is still a daily battle of fighting evils within and without, but it is better than the path before I started learning this teaching.

I am leaving out so much that it probably doesn't make sense or seem significant, but before Rev. Moon passed away this September, he said that if we witnessed for three hours a day we would start to see miracles happen in our family.  I think the same as reading the material or reading even a little of the Divine Principle and applying it in our life it will work.

If you can, believe that the end of the world truly means the end of Satan's sovereignty, the end of the evil world where satan's reign and the beginning of God and His children prospering, plus the beginning of Heaven on Earth.  It can only happen when we no longer give and take with our evil side, kind of like the little devil on one shoulder and the angel on the other shoulder.

Fortunately, the Divine Principle workshops are given freely in each state by district pastors through the ACLC affiliated with the Unification Church or you can continue with my blog where I rewrite Dr. Rev. Moon's speeches and textbooks without changing the spirit of the message for those who are not members of the Unification Church.

Pray and see if my testimony is just a coincidence, or  I'm crazy or that it is truly possible that you are living in the most highest time of human history where finally good things and miracles will be a natural occurrence and God can finally take position as absolute ruler over His earth. 

You may think He was all this time, but it was satan who ruled over this earth perpetrating as the false god.  Why else would Jesus tell his people out of anger that 'you are of your father the devil'?  If you think God would create and rule over this hell on earth then it is possible we will never agree.  Who did Eve choose to believe in the beginning, God's word or Satan's?  And that is the word we have believed until now.  Choose the living word.  Every moment you choose either life or death in your decisions.

It is up to you.  I will never pressure anyone to follow unless they want me to or love to hear the messages.  My only job is to give the living word and spread it as a messenger, open the door not push you through it or make you believe.  I already been down that alley face to face with strangers and it takes up energy from people who really are sick spiritually and have been praying for God to drop someone like me into their life.

Hopefully, you have the eyes to see and will believe and understand the time you are living in.  All I know is what I told my family who I stood up against every single one of them because I said, "When I go to the gates and God ask did I do all he asked me to do.  I will say hell yes everything!!!  Did you do it to the best of your ability? I will say yes, Lord, and I didn't come here alone.  I brought my family and millions of others like you said I would."

Yes, I always feel like I am a nuisance to people and I bother them, but they either fade away or they cling to the word that is given.

It may sound selfish, but I told my uncle now it was his turn to pray for me, and my time for my miracle.  I have received half of my miracle with a blessed story idea 35 years in the making and admit shamefully I do wish for the rest of the miracle to be fulfilled, but that depends completely on God and the person He chosen my heart for.

I had a waking vision when I first started the Divine Principle teachings 7 years ago that I was going to have a lot of tribulation, beyond words that my novel could not even cover, and to endure God showed me that if I counted the stars that would be how many people/children I would bring to Him.  Millions. 

I do not fit in with the Unification Church, I do not fit in with my family, people do not understand me, but God is with me.  He wants me to be a leader and always had even though I wanted to sit in the back and be led, but he will not tolerate it anymore and He ordained for my partner to do the same and we are both waiting for him to step up to the plate.

Is this path easy to do as God will and not as 'thou wilst'?  God is asking me to talk to people I would never even know or talk to without His consent, power or love.  The me I am without God, loves only thyself and can do without another human's presence for eternity.  So imagine how hard it is for me to do half of what he asks.  Anyone who knows me and the better me, knows only God had something to do with this, and if God is with me, then he must be with Reverend Moon.

Will you be a witness to the greatness of this time or are you going to be like the people of Noah's time and miss the boat and continue to eat, drink and give into marriage without Him completely?

Those who have the ears to hear will hear and those who don't, must be protected by our prayers.

Love you all for reading and have a good week.

I will see you January 5 with some fantastic new blogs after my refreshing month off.  I love you all from around the world.  Have a good one.

Denise Rochelle M.

How to Have the Happiest Marriage (rewritten)

Daily-Life Habits That Make a Supremely Happy Couple

A Guide to the Happiest Married Life

written by Yoshihiko Masuda, PhD

AchieveWorldPeace Note:

The following text was given by a Unification Church member based on the values taught by the founder, Dr. Reverend Sun Myung Moon, married for over 50 years before his death this September, which is centered on his teachings of the Divine Principle. The Original text of DP is given in Korean and the philosophy and based on the teachings of the bible and of Jesus. With the combined teachings of the Eastern philosophy and teachings of the Western bible, the Reverend has been able to tap into the hearts of people of all religions, faiths and along with non-believers for one reason: the teaching of the heart of God which is rooted in every human being.

The UC member had used many of the speeches given by the reverend to instruct his congregation on how to keep their marriage alive with the unity of God and the energy of spirit world. Reverend Moon was married over 50 years to his wife Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon before his recent death at 92 in September of this year.

The members who this text is original geared toward have had extensive training and missions to train their body and their minds to become united centered on God in the goal of becoming the original children of God that appeared before the fall.  They understand the basic rule of the living for others, no sex outside of marriage or with anyone other than their spouse, spouses live for one another and their sexual organs belong to their spouse.

For more understanding of the Divine  Principle, please scan the dozens of articles which translate the Divine Principle into conversational speech.

I have changed the 70-page text to be understandable for readers who are members of other churches

Chapter 1

It is recommended that the first 10 habits, listed in Chapter 1, be practiced everyday, that is, always, and these can make for a supremely happy couple. The additional 10 habits, in Chapter 2, can also make for a supremely happy couple, and it is recommended that these be practiced at least sometimes, if not everyday.

This method is used by many couples in this world, even before their marriage.

“Method for the Improvement through Practice,” as a way to improve the conjugal relationship. No matter how bad their relationship may be, a married couple can, without fail, improve their conjugal relationship, if they only practice these following habits.

This is why I named it the “Method for the Improvement through Practice.”

As for the “10 daily-life habits that make a supremely happy couple,” I will present the words of True Parents and Dae Mo Nim (Spiritualist who can see spirit world with evil and good spirits) repeatedly on each habit in most of the cases. I personally came to practice these 10 habits largely because I had read their speeches, which repeatedly touch on these habits.

If you have not yet been practicing these habits, please read carefully and repeatedly the speeches of Dr. Rev. Sun Myung Moon and Dae Mo Nim in addition to this text. The motivation to experiment with these habits in your daily life will surely well up from your heart. Undoubtedly, you will come to say to yourself, “As Rev. Moon and his Wife have taught us repeatedly like this and even presented to us an ideal model of practice in their daily lives, let’s try to practice these habits in our lives.”

After practicing these habits on an experimental basis, you may cease practicing them if you as a couple does not feel good. Nonetheless, after practicing these habits experimentally, I am sure your couple will end up in practicing them continuously because you will come to feel a deep sense of peace and goodness in your heart. In other words, you can feel genuinely happy, and you can feel the presence of God by practicing them.

Any couple can, without fail, become an “A+” pure-love couple by faithfully practicing the “10 daily-life habits that make a supremely happy couple.” There is no need to pay any extra expenses when practicing these “10 daily-life habits that make a supremely happy couple.” Therefore, no matter how poor a couple may be, they can still practice these “10 daily-life habits,” without worrying about money.

If a husband and wife faithfully practice these “10 daily-life habits” while here on earth, the couple can live in happiness eternally, simply by continuing to practice these daily-life habits of true love in the spirit world, after both ascending into Heaven.

I really hope that all couples will faithfully practice, not only the first “10 daily-life habits that make a supremely happy couple,” but also the additional 10 habits, and truly become “A+”pure-love couples living in supreme happiness. I am sure God will always dwell in such “A+” pure-love couple.

This is, in a sense, a tribute to my late wife, and this book is dedicated to her with my profound gratitude for her untiring practice of true love here on earth.

The Value of Holding Hands

We could easily say that “holding each other’s hand” or living “hand in hand,” which Rev. Moon and Dae Mo Nim have recommended, is the main characteristic emerging from these “10 daily-life habits that make a supremely happy couple.”

“Special spiritual energy” comes out of our fingers and palms, as we know from using them to heal our bodies and to rid of any negative energy. So, if we live hand in hand as a couple, we can receive the effect of a hand massage, which contributes not only to our spiritual health (happy feelings), but also to our physical health.

The Spiritualist Dae Mo Nim, however, has repeatedly emphasized the importance of changing our daily-life habits. Therefore, since 2008 I have renamed it as “a checklist of the 10 daily-life habits that make a supremely happy couple.”

1. We should always walk hand in hand when we go out with our spouse.
2. We should always hold our spouse’s hand when we watch TV together.
3. We should always hold each other’s hand in bed and have pillow-talk before going to sleep.
4. We should sleep naked together in one bed every night.
5. We should call each other at least once a day during the daytime and always keep in touch.
6. We should bow down before a picture of True Parents, recite the Family Pledge, report to God facing each other and holding each other’s hands, and bow (down) to each other to close, every morning and every night.
7. We should always send off and welcome home our husband (wife), by holding his (her) hand, kissing, and/or hugging at the front door when he (she) goes out for work and returns from work.
8. We should always talk to each other politely, and with respect.
9. We should practice reading True Parents’ speeches together every day.
10. We should make love at least twice a week.

These 10 points of advice are not my personal advice, but are from Dr. Rev. Sun Myung Moon, his wife and Dae Mo Nim. Therefore, readers must not talk about these 10 points as coming from Prof. Masuda. I merely gathered these 10 points together as a practical “checklist of the 10 daily-life habits,” from the guidance of True Parents and Dae Mo Nim, concerning our lives as a husband and wife.

From my personal experience, I am sure that even if we practice only half of these 10 points, our conjugal relationship will tremendously improve and be carried on a strong ascending wind current. If you haven’t practiced any of these habits yet, I strongly recommend that you immediately put them into practice.

Try them out! You have nothing to lose!

I would like to present True Parent’s and Dae Mo Nim’s speeches that support these “10 habits that make a supremely happy couple.”

1. We should always walk hand in hand when we go out with our spouse.

As for the first habit of “always walking hand in hand,” I would like to introduce True Parent’s speech delivered on May 5, 2005, the one-year anniversary of The Day of Total Victory with the Unity of a Pair of Fives.

It has become a rumor here that Reverend Moon is always walking hand in hand with his wife, Dr. Hak Ja Han. Usually in Korea, the husband keeps walking on and on ahead of his wife, who walks behind him. Then, the wife wonders, “How busy is he, walking that fast?” Reverend Moon, however, walks hand in hand with his wife.

Dae Mo Nim has also repeatedly mentioned that True Parents (members call Rev. Moon and his wife TP because they have fulfilled oneship as a couple before God and teach members, as parents, to rid the evil lineage of satan plus sin from their own lineage through marriage) always hold each other’s hand while walking outside, and she has taught us that we Blessed Married couples, married by the Reverend, should emulate them by always holding each other’s hand in our daily lives.

True Parents hold each other’s hand while watching TV and while walking outside. True Parents always hold each other’s hand in their daily lives. You know that, don’t you? True Parents say, “Follow us by watching our lives.”

True Parents are the ideal model for all Blessed couples and always “walk hand in hand” in their daily lives, not only in the United States, but also in Korea. Up until now, just as in Japan, top Korean leaders such as the President and the First Lady, or the chairman or president of a major company and his wife, have never had the habit of walking together hand in hand in public, in Korea. All Blessed couples, however, should emulate True Parents and practice the culture of true conjugal love.

Hyung-jin Nim, Rev. Moon's son, also always walks hand in hand with his wife, Yeon-ah Nim. During the fall semester of 2006, when he frequently guided our CheongShim Graduate School’s hoondokhae, he always, without fail, walked hand in hand with his wife between their car and our Chapel on the fourth floor of the main building, before and after the gatherings. I was very happy to see the beautiful scene of their walking hand in hand.

As we can tell from the practice of using our fingers and palms during the workshops to rid our bodies of negative energy, “special spiritual energy” comes out of our fingers and palms. That’s why I recommend walking “hand in hand” rather than “arm in arm.” So, if we walk hand in hand as a couple, we can give and receive the effect of a hand massage, which contributes not only to our spiritual health but also to our physical health. I wholeheartedly recommend “always walking hand in hand” just likeTrue Parents; it is part of the True Parents’ rules of health: “Become an absolute Blessed couple of one heart and one body.”

When walking together, or watching TV together, or sleeping together, and so on, a husband and wife are advised to hold each other’s hand, and every time when the husband and wife hold each other’shand, it brings about the unity of a husband’s five fingers and a wife’s five fingers. Therefore, we can view it as symbolizing the “Day of Total Victory with the Unity of a Pair of Fives,”

When we walk hand in hand, we should sometimes remind ourselves that “walking hand in hand” brings about the unity of a husband’s five fingers and a wife’s five fingers and symbolizes the “Day of Total Victory with the Unity of a Pair of Fives”. We should always walk hand in hand and at least sometimes give deep thanks to God in our hearts for the fact that we now live in the unprecedented new “Era after the Coming of Heaven,” (through the coming of the Lord of the Second Advent's worked to bring Heaven on Earth) when a husband and wife can completely become one and when God can dwell within us.

2. We should always hold our spouse’s hand when we watch TV together.

3. We should always hold each other’s hand in bed and have pillow-talk before going to sleep.

I would like to introduce four speeches of Dae Mo Nim, in which she talked about the second and third habits of holding each other’s hand intimately, while watching TV, and while in bed before going to sleep. True Parents hold each other’s hand while watching TV and while walking outside. True Parents always hold each other’s hand in their daily lives. You know that, don’t you? True Parents say, “Follow us by watching our lives.” I sometimes watch how True Parents are doing in their lives. When they watch TV, how are they doing?

They are watching TV while holding each other’s hand. When they listen to music, they are listening while holding each other’s hand and responding to the rhythm. We Blessed couples must resemble such True Parents.

You must not simply go to sleep when you sleep at night. You should sleep holding your husband’s hand or other parts of the body.

When watching TV after dinner, you and your husband must not sit apart. For example, while watching TV, you should hold your husband’s hand and put it on your lap or put your hand on your husband’s knee or use his lap as a pillow. If you act in this way, you can receive love from your husband in many ways. But many wives do not act in such a way. Love is what you nurture and create with your own effort.

Some couples sit apart as if they were fighting when they watch TV, or when they watch their children playing. That is not good. We can say a husband and wife were utter strangers to each other in the past from some viewpoints. Therefore, without their effort to stay close and to care about each other, they gradually drift apart. Therefore, you have to sleep holding each other’s hand and watch TV holding each other’s hand.

On the bed at night, after scratching on the back of the spouse to increase comfortableness, or massaging the legs, or touching the ear and head and so on to each other, a husband and wife should hold each other’s hand and squeeze it tightly in the end to say “Good night!” together before going to sleep. Such a husband and wife are a happy couple.

It seems that many Oriental Blessed Married husbands are not good at expressing love in their daily lives. They repeatedly recite “absolute faith, absolute love, and absolute obedience” with their lips. Nonetheless, when it comes to practicing true love with their own hands, many of them seem to be hesitant to follow True Parent’s and Dae Mo Nim’s advice in their daily lives, as obediently as a small child. In particular, many middle-aged and older husbands in their 40s and above tend to resist throwing away old and familiar habits and avoid practicing completely new ones in their daily lives.

When we come to think of it, we Blessed couples have miraculously encountered the greatest father and teacher in human history who can teach us how to practice true love in our daily lives. Our True Parents have taught us how to attain the supreme happiness as a married couple, not only by words, but also by concretely showing us the best example (ideal model). We Blessed couples have the miraculous opportunity of inheriting the greatest heavenly fortune and happiness through our True Parents. Nonetheless, if we don’t practice their teachings about our conjugal life, the greatest heavenly fortune and happiness will fly away from us.

I recommend that all Blessed couples obediently practice these words by discarding old ideas and habits of the fallen, secularized world who loosely use their sexual organs and have multiple sexual partners without care. Those who cannot practice obediently due to their old inflexible ideas from this fallen world are unfaithful and foolish persons who have given up on the task of becoming a married couple of supreme happiness.  It is possible to have a happy, loving marriage centered on God.

Unless we married couples can become supremely happy couples and demonstrate a life-style as a genuinely happy couple, we will never succeed in witnessing to and converting others. Only when we really become supremely happy couples and manifest the life-style of a genuinely happy couple, can we succeed in witnessing to our neighbors in our surrounding communities as well as restoring the relatives in our clans in accomplishing our mission as a clan messiah. In the United States, the Mormon Church (Church of the Latter- day Saints) has now grown bigger than the Episcopal Church, which is affiliated with the Anglican Church of the United Kingdom.

The key to its success consists in the happy family-life of its members. Reportedly, a very small number of its members joined the Mormon Church because of its unique theology. The majority of its new members joined because they were attracted by the happy family-life of the Mormon Church members.

I used to be a typical Japanese man who was poor at expressing love. Nonetheless, thanks to my job as a professor in Unification ethics at Sun Moon University, and more recently at the CheongShim Graduate School of Theology, I have seriously researched and become very familiar with True Parent’s and Dae Mo Nim’s speeches on the practice of true love in our daily lives.

After collecting True Parent’s and Dae Mo Nim’s speeches on the practice of true love, I felt compelled to put them into practice.

By faithfully implementing such teachings, my wife and I felt so peaceful and happy that we soon made it a rule, for example, to hold each other’s hand while in bed before going to sleep and while watching TV together. My wife and I always felt very peaceful and happy feelings through holding each other’s hand. As a result, my wife and I always held each other’s hand whenever possible, because it felt very good. While she was still alive on earth, my wife repeatedly said to me, “It is my happiest time to have ‘pillow-talk’ while holding each other’s hand in bed.”

4. We should sleep naked together in one bed every night.

As for the “sleeping naked” part of the fourth daily-life habit, I will explain it extensively in another chapter of this book. There I will quote True Father’s original speech, “From tonight on, a husband and wife must sleep naked together,” to a great extent and explain its providential meaning, and related issues, through answering four questions on this daily-life habit.

Therefore, in this section, I just focus on the latter part of this fouth habit (“sleeping together in one bed”), and I will introduce Dae Mo Nim’s and True Parent’s words.

A husband and wife must sleep together under one quilt and live feeling in love with each other, just as couples do in Korea. But many married couples in Japan sleep in separate futons or beds. It is fundamentally wrong to sleep separately.

Also in another family, the husband used a back room, and the wife used a small room; they lived their lives separately under one roof. Such a life is really wrong. You all sometimes fight with your husbands, don’t you? Even when you fight, you must absolutely not sleep in a separate room by taking your pillow with you.

True Father also said, at the Cheongpyeong Training Center after the Pledge Service on True Children’s Day, in November 2006, “a husband and wife should sleep naked in one bed, not in two separate beds.”

You husbands and wives should completely take off your clothes and sleep naked together every night, embracing each other in one bed, not in two separate beds.  Then, is it possible for a husband and wife to quarrel every day? Is it possible for them to quarrel in the morning and sleep together at night?

It is impossible.

Although your husband’s snoring sound is very loud and noisy, a husband and wife should sleep together in one bed, even if they must use ear plugs, as a daily-life habit in the Era after the Coming of Heaven. The 3M Company in the United States invented very effective soundproof ear plugs for the astronauts of NASA, and they are on sale at a cheap price, even at the store at the Cheongpyeong Heaven and Earth Training Center.

Return Tomorrow for : How to Have the Happiest Marriage Part 2

Yoshihiko Masuda, PhD(Professor, CheongShim Graduate School of Theology

This book is in large part the English translation of my Japanese booklet

CheongShim GST University Press

Based on the Speeches of True Parents and Dae Mo Nim

Published by CheongShim GST University Press

Copyright

ⓒ 2010 by Yoshihiko Masuda

All Rights Reserved

Published in the Republic of Korea by CheongShim GST University Press

December Is Time Off!

 Achieve World Peace is only about four months old and it is time for a rest.  A nap doesn't last forever.  I enjoyed being able to learn more as I post each day and share to the world from South Africa, Germany, Russia and many other countries who read daily. 

During this break, I will be concentrating more on my divine inspiration-given novel which I plan to finish a  clean, viable draft by the end of December.  I will be able to catch and prepare for next year's post in advance.  And lastly during this time I will be able to concentrate more on the Divine Principle Bible Study topics that will begin December 15.  This hopefully will be more of a forum for a specific topic with more interaction with guest Divine Principle teachers and pastors answering questions.

So, far there is a live nationwide broadcast starting on that same day of a LIVE Divine Principal workshop.  If this happens I will post a link for that day and reminders before.

Well, please take this time if you are new here to catch up on posts on different topics, re-read or

please ask questions or make comments as I will still be able to answer.  See you December 15.  And you can leave ideas for topics you would like to see in the future.

See you Jan. 5 everyone and happy "every holiday you celebrate" until then.

Love Across the Board,
Denise Rochelle M.

Hunger Solution Update

I wrote several articles that the solution to the world's hunger problem was in the ocean, an article through fish and making a living to support family.

 

This catch this week is a grand example of how deep sea fishing can feed and support a person better than any farmland.

This thousand pounder tuna did not break the 1979 record, but the Daily Mail reports that this whopper will yield 20, 000 pieces of sushi and will be expected to be sold for more than $32,000 to a buyer in Japan.

Neil Cooke, who was with Towers, is quoted as saying: "It took Marc two hours to pull in, and we had started to see the shape of it when the skipper said, 'This could be a big fish.'

Create an Immortal Masterpiece

Today's Post is the last official post for the year 2012.  I will have a brief update of a previous article about a hunger solution posted tomorrow morning.

If we were to study art work that is still being admired centuries or thousands of years old, we would see a commonality between all of these masterpieces.

Rodin's statue The Thinker and the statue of the thinking Maitreya-Bodhisattva from the Shilla dynasty in Korea, are quite different works of art, even though both have the same theme, namely, a man engaged in thinking.







The latter has as its motif, the heart of the people, waiting for the Maitreya, who was said to have been the most excellent disciple of Buddha and is to come again in order to save all humankind. As regards expression of Inner Sungsang, Rodin's statue displays a strong intellectual aspect, whereas the statue of Maitreya is centered on purified emotions, and, as a result, has become a very noble and holy statue.


Object Consciousness

Creation is an activity whereby an artist, in the position of object, gives joy to the subject, namely, God and the whole (humankind, the nation, tribe, etc.), by manifesting the value of beauty. For that, the artist must establish a sense of object consciousness. The attitude of wanting to give joy to God, the highest Subject, and to manifest the glory of God, is the culmination of object consciousness. The content of object consciousness will be discussed next.

First, the artist should seek to comfort God, who has been grieving with sorrow throughout human history. God created human beings and the universe to obtain joy, and even endowed humans with creativity. Therefore, the original purpose of human life is, above all, to give joy to God.

Accordingly, people's creative activity should have been carried out, first of all, as a means to please God. However, people separated themselves from God and lost the consciousness of wanting to give joy to God. That has been the sorrow of God, even until today. Therefore, the artist should, above all, comfort God for His historical sorrow.

Second, the artist should have the attitude of wanting to comfort the many sages and righteous people, especially Jesus, who walked the path of restoration with God. To comfort them is to comfort God, who shared pain and sorrow with them.

Third, the artist should have the attitude of wanting to express the deeds of the good and righteous people of the past and present. That is, the artist should have the attitude of cooperating with God's providence and Will by portraying the deeds of those people who were, and those who still are, persecuted by the sinful world.

Fourth, the artist should herald the coming of the ideal world, Therefore, the artist should create works expressing hope for, and confidence about the future. Through such works, God's glory is manifested.

Fifth, the artist should have the attitude of wanting to praise God, the Creator, by expressing the beauty and mystery of nature. God created nature for humankind's joy. Due to the Human Fall, however, people came to obtain little joy from the beauty of nature. Therefore, while having a feeling of awe toward nature, which is the manifestation of God's attributes, the artist should discover the beauty of nature, praise God and give joy to others.

Artists who have object consciousness and dedicate all their energy in their creative work, can receive blessings from God and assistance from the spirit world. That is how true works of art are produced. Such works. may be considered the fruit of co-creative work between God and the artist.

Among the artists of' the Renaissance, there were many who created their works of art with object consciousness. For example, Leonardo da Vinci (1432-1519), Raphael (1483-1520) and Michelangelo (1475-1564) were such artists. Beethoven (1770-1827), who perfected classical music, composed music with object consciousness. ¹² That is why the works of those artists have become immortal masterpieces to give joy to generation a hundred years later and beyond.


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Today's Post was based on the teachings of Dr. Reverend Sun Myung Moon from his Textbook: Unification Thought Chapter: Requisites of Creation.

Divine Inspiration, Get It

"Before you dominate the world, first dominate yourself."


Actually, I dedicate this post to an experience that recently happened to me a little over a month ago.  After 35 years telling and writing stories, even becoming a journalist, I received divine inspiration and wrote my book in a 24-hour period. 

When I came across this text for this post, I was able to align myself to God's will as "more than imaginary" things were starting to develop, now are explained to me after reading this.  When it happens, you will know for sure that a good, high-level spirit or angel is guiding you along and it will not be a question. The same for the person God sends you to be the one, there is no question that God is guiding you.  But, with a gift comes responsibility.

When you establish in yourself the proper relationship between your mind as subject partner and your body as its object partner, you become the microcosm that resonates with the macrocosm, the spirit world and the physical world. You stand as the mediator and center of harmony between the two worlds because you have set up that harmony within yourself.

For its part, the spirit world rejoices to find in you a channel to work its will on the physical world. Although countless spirits long to do good works on earth, they require a responsive mediator through whom to act. By establishing yourself in the proper position, centered on God, you can meet the needs of the spirit world and become the focus of its attention.


Spiritual Inspiration and Our Response

Let us take some examples. It is well known that the abilities of psychics vary according to their emotional state and the spiritual environment. In the presence of skeptics, they are often disarmed and unable to show their powers. Healers testify that their healing works best when the patient is open and welcomes the work.

Even Jesus, the greatest of healers, said to the ones who were healed, "your faith has made you well" (Mark j:34), and could not do many healings in the face of pervasive unbelief. (Mark 6:5-6) This illustrates the principle that the subject-object relationship between the spirit world and the physical world is mediated through human beings. Doubt and skepticism block the relationship, and hence block the spiritual work. Faith opens the door for receiving spiritual help.

Spiritual inspiration lies behind the creative work of all great inventors, scientists and artists. In Dr. Sung Lee's tour of the spirit world, he saw spirits working in laboratories creating the stuff of invention that would be communicated to earthly scientists years later. Why is it that so many inventions and scientific discoveries are made almost simultaneously by several researchers in different parts of the world working in isolation from each other? When the time arrives for a new invention to be bequeathed to the earth, the spirit world will work through several channels at once.

Numerous accounts abound of scientists receiving the key to new discoveries in dreams or in flashes of unearthly insight. One celebrated example is the elucidation of the structure of benzene by the German chemist Friedrich August Kekule. He had puzzled for years over how its six carbon atoms and six hydrogen atoms link together. (Ordinary hydrocarbons are built of straight chains of carbon atoms, but a chain of six carbon atoms with the stability of benzene would require fourteen hydrogen atoms).

One night Kekule fell asleep in his chair, and in a dream he saw snakes biting their tails and whirling around like hoops. He awoke and immediately realized that the six carbon atoms of benzene link together in a ring. With that discovery, all the facts of organic chemistry known up to that time fell into place.

Artists, poets and musicians since antiquity have acknowledged the Muse as the source of their creative genius. The words or music just comes to them, as if from a higher source. Take, for instance, this self-description by Mozart:
When I feel well and in a good humor, or when I am taking a drive or walking after a good meal, or in the night when I cannot sleep, thoughts crowd into my mind as easily as you could wish. Whence and how do they come? I do not know and I have nothing to do with it. Those which please me I keep in my head and hum them; at least others have told me that I do so. Once I have my theme, another melody comes, linking itself with the first one, in accordance with the needs of the composition as a whole: the counterpoint, the part of each instrument and all the melodic fragments at last produce the complete work. Then my soul is on fire with inspiration. The work grows; I keep expanding it, conceiving it more and more clearly until I have the entire composition finished in my head though it may be long.
Mozart was graced with the inspiration of music. He received his melodies from the spirit world. Furthermore, he knew what to do with them. He knew what to keep and what to discard, and how to develop them into a composition in accordance with the best of his art. By the time his "soul is on fire with inspiration" he would already be in the midst of co-creating a work of art whose initial seed had come to him as a gift from heaven.
Spiritual Guidance

Spiritual guidance from heaven often arrives cryptic and vague. Even Rev. Moon's directions, which we believe to be accurate in every respect, often are stated in only a few cryptic phrases. How much more uncertain is the guidance through a spiritualist, medium, palm reader or readers of Tarot cards, who has to hazard an interpretation of words and symbols!

The fact is, spiritual guidance must be couched in this way, with meanings hidden in obscure and ambiguous speech. According to the Divine Principle, people must exercise their portion of responsibility to understand the inspiration given from God and the spirit world. We are not meant to be led around by angels-all spiritual guidance is by nature angelic-but to exercise dominion over the angels as responsible agents through our own wisdom.

Otherwise, if spiritual messages were explicit, we would be little more than servants of those angelic beings, only doing their bidding. To give us the dignity of co-creators, God gave us responsibility to chart our own course with limited information, for example:
God could not instruct Cain and Abel on how to properly make their sacrifices because it was their portion of responsibility that Cain make his sacrifice with Abel's help.
God had directly revealed to John [the Baptist] that Jesus was the Messiah, and... he said, "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, "Make straight the way of the Lord," and declared that he was the one who had been sent before the Christ. Therefore, John should have realized through his own wisdom that he was the returning Elijah. Even if he not did not realize this fact, since God had revealed to him that Jesus was the Messiah, he should have accepted the testimony of Jesus and, in obedience, proclaimed himself to be Elijah. Our responsibility begins with effort to understand heaven's guidance with a public mind. Any selfishness or conceit may blind us to the will of heaven.
Therefore, when Rev. Moon says not to interpret his directions, he means we should not wriggle out of the path of sacrifice by cleverly reducing Heaven's request into something comfortable. We must anyway interpret what we receive in a cryptic and vague form, but we should do so with a public mind, following the Principle, ready and willing to take on whatever burden may be required. Then we will not go wrong. Our responsibility ends with action. In attempting to carry out a spiritual direction according to the best of our understanding, the direction will often become crystal clear.

All spiritual inspiration goes for naught without the training and motivation of the earthly people to make use of it. Everyone has an occasional flash of inspiration, perhaps the theme for a new song or the idea for a new invention. Usually we don't know what to do with them, so they slip in and out of our heads while we carry on with our ordinary lives. On the other hand, those scientists and artists who received the most exceptional gifts of inspiration invariably knew what to do with them. Because they had trained themselves for many years and had mastered the tools of their field, or because they were at such a high level as to be working on the cutting edge of knowledge, their minds could be responsive to the movement of spirit.

When the inspiration came, they understood its meaning and acted upon it. They had the resources and the motivation to work at turning that inspiration into a physical reality. It is said that invention is five percent inspiration and ninety-five percent perspiration. The spirit world looks for such prepared people to entrust with their most precious knowledge. They want to cooperate with earthly people who will strive every day to bring their spiritual design to fruition in the physical world. Such people will complete the link between the spirit world and the physical world as subject and object partners.


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This text was is based on the teachings of the late Dr. Reverend Sun Myung Moon and taken from the textbook: True Family Value written by Joong Hyun Pak and Andrew Wilson Chapter 5 - Reaching to the Spirit World Part 1

 

 

 

Men and Women Need Each Other

 

Man symbolizes heaven and woman symbolizes earth. Man and woman are to come together and realize harmony.  —Sun Myung Moon

 

 

Opposites attract, especially masculine and feminine. The big, muscular Dad is mesmerized by the tiny frailty of his newborn daughter. The petite, refined teenager memorizes every detail of her heartthrob’s rugged face, strong dark eyes, thick hands, and angular physique. The simple, home-loving woman catches the eye of the sophisticated, worldly-wise man.

This tendency of masculinity and femininity to find and balance each other is an expression of complementarity—a principle running throughout all existence. Indeed, the harmony and vibrant tension of these polarities fills the universe with energy, structure, life, beauty and joy. Frosty mountain peaks overlook green, verdant valleys. The peacock carries around his heavy tail feathers to make the colorful display that will attract a peahen, who will in turn bear his young. An electron weighs less than a thousandth of a proton, yet they precisely balance to comprise an atom.

 

Implications of the Reproductive Organs

But perhaps the design most revealing—in a metaphoric way—about masculinity and femininity are the reproductive organs themselves.

The female organ receives the male organ, so masculinity is active and initiating while femininity is receptive and responsive. The male organ angles upward and away from the body when erect. It is often aroused by inspiration solely within the mind. This is symbolic of the masculine propensity towards “heaven,” the world of ideals and vision. In contrast, the female organ is like “earth” in that it opens deep into the body and is subject to monthly cycles.

This represents the feminine concern for immediate, practical matters. The internal structure of the female organs represents the feminine tendency to emphasize the world of feelings and human relations and to solve problems by changing something within herself.

In contrast, the outward thrust of the male organ symbolizes the natural inclination of masculinity to focus on manipulating things in the outer world. In communication, masculinity tends to be direct and assertive, as the male genitals symbolize, while femininity is apt to be more indirect and round-about, like the female organs.

Apart from physical design, observation of the tendencies of men and women suggest other distinctions between masculinity and femininity. Femininity is concerned with context; masculinity is focused on content. Masculinity emphasizes rules and standards; femininity is mindful of individual differences.

Femininity is egalitarian and cooperative; masculinity is hierarchical and competitive.

It must be said in the end that differences notwithstanding, men and women are far more similar than not, of course. Both genders have personality, the fruit of the interaction of mind and body. Both are spiritual and material beings. Both have heart and conscience. What masculinity and femininity do is to impart a certain slant to these universal human components, creating only a difference of style and emphasis.
 

Complementary Virtues

The diverse characteristics of masculinity and femininity can be reduced to certain strengths or virtues. These are reflected in the qualities that are universally prized in men and women. In all the various family roles of men—son, brother, husband, father— and their social counterparts, among the key virtues celebrated are strength, leadership, courage, justice, discipline, self-sufficiency and providing. In their roles as daughter, sister, wife, mother and the like, there are also certain qualities that are celebrated in women.

These include beauty, support, surrender, mercy, modesty, nurturance, and resourcefulness. The Bible provides a succinct description of the virtuous woman when St. Paul says, “train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be sensible, chaste, domestic, kind, and submissive to their husbands, that the word of God may not be discredited” (Titus 2.4-5). These various virtues are complementary to one another, paired in subject and object partnership.

One stimulates or inspires the other and either can be much more difficult to generate or maintain without the other.  Frequently the virtues are masculine and feminine dimensions of the same quality. In any case, the masculine dimension tends to be intrapersonal, that is, related to vertical mind and body unity.

 

For example, chastity in men traditionally is a testament to self-control, for the purpose of being single-minded, able to serve God or otherwise realize a worthy purpose. In contrast, feminine virtue is more often than not an interpersonal quality, related to horizontal, person-to-person unity. Chastity for women has more connotations of fidelity, keeping love undivided for the sake of its fulfillment.

Complementary Virtues

Masculine            Feminine

Strength                 Beauty

Leadership            Support

Courage                Surrender

Justice                   Mercy

Discipline              Modesty

Self-Sufficiency     Nurturance

 

Strength and beauty

Strength encompasses physical power, stamina and the ability to endure physical and emotional pain to provide for and protect others. It means keeping one’s own counsel when necessary and eschewing easy comfort.

Strength is “beauty” in a man, as reflected in a recent song defining manhood as being as “swift as the coursing river, with all the force of a great typhoon, with all the strength of a raging fire, mysterious as the dark side of the moon.”

In the same way, what we call beauty—being a source of pleasure and inspiration—is an important feminine “strength.” Beauty encompasses grace and graciousness, creating comfort and harmony. A woman’s beauty stimulates love in her husband even as it cheers and encourages her children. Beauty also involves creating splendor around oneself, drawing out the attractiveness of other people and things and harmonizing them.

Both of these virtues are often distorted in the world, interpreted in exaggerated, external terms that become oppressive. The truth of Francis Bacon’s words, “The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express,” is readily forgotten. Women are prone to obsessively focus on their appearance. Likewise, men are likely to forget that real strength is a character quality, as the saying goes:

“The strength of a man isn’t in the weight he can lift. It’s in the burdens he can carry.”

 In their true meaning, strength and beauty encapsulate all the good qualities that distinguish masculinity and femininity. That is, all masculine virtues are regarded as enhancing a man’s strength while the feminine virtues are seen as making a woman more beautiful.

Leadership and support

Leadership involves taking command of a situation, being assertive and taking initiative to get something done. Leadership demands sacrificing oneself to protect and provide for others. It means making decisions in spite of uncertainty and others’ disapproval. It sometimes requires taking a stand that disturbs the peace.

Support, on the other hand, is the ability to facilitate leadership, to respond to what is required, fill in what the leader lacks and influence the situation indirectly. Just as leadership is a kind of support, giving support often involves taking leadership, rallying others and harmonizing them with the leader’s purpose and direction.

The male capacity to zero in on the root of a problem and detach from feelings to make more impartial decisions suits many men to be like the CEO and public affairs director of their families, accountable for their direction, protection and overall function.

 

At the same time, the female sensitivity to relationships and capacity for detail makes most women the ideal person in charge of day-today family matters and connections to the neighborhood—the director of personnel and head of public relations, the one to oversee the health and happiness of the home.

Courage and Surrender

 

Courage and surrender are counterparts to one another.  Courage is acting despite fear, which means to surrender to what needs to be done regardless of risk. Its close cousin is heroism. A prerequisite to courage is confidence, the trust in oneself and in one’s God-given strengths.

Conversely, surrender is the willingness to trust in others and in life, to be vulnerable and yield oneself to a person or situation. This also demands considerable courage to put one’s fate in the hands of someone or something that is as yet unproven. Women are called to surrender in countless ways, just as men need to be courageous to exhibit leadership and other qualities.

Justice and Mercy

Justice is promoting fairness through establishing and enforcing standards, rules and boundaries. It involves making distinctions, passing judgment and discerning right from wrong. Justice is to be impartial, “blind.” Mercy, on the other hand, bends rules and permits special consideration for individual cases.

It softens the dictates of justice to allow for the complexities of the heart. Of course both are vital and depend upon one another for balance: “And what does the Lord require of you,” says the prophet Micah, “but to do justice, and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God”.

Discipline and Modesty

 

These virtues represent restraints upon both strength and beauty, respectively.  Discipline involves self-control and moderating one’s passions. It also includes the humility to submit to a superior’s correction and direction. Both are essential if a man would exercise authority over others. St. Paul bids older men to “be temperate, serious, sensible” and younger men to “control themselves” (Titus 2.2, 6). Modesty is the feminine form of self-restraint. It is reserving one’s beauty and sexuality for one’s spouse alone, guarding what God has entrusted. Both are encompassed in chastity, as mentioned above.

Self-sufficiency and Nurturance

Self-sufficiency is the ability to handle one’s own needs and solve one’s own problems so as to be available to be of service. This is related to independence; men are expected to be strong in themselves so others can depend upon them. The complementary virtue of nurturance means to actively attend to that which is young and undeveloped, believing in its potential and patiently awaiting its full unfolding. It includes relieving distress and providing comfort.
 

Patience and gentleness make this possible. Nurturance also connotes an acceptance of a measure of dependence; generally women are more willing to admit their needs and be cared for.

 

Providing and Resourcefulness

These virtues relate to dealing with things. Providing refers to the masculine trait of acquiring what is needed for the people causes ones loves.

“The best of men are those who are useful to others,” reads a hadithm, The traditional requirement for a boy of the indigenous peoples of the arctic North was to slay a seal as a feast for his community, representing this male virtue. Resourcefulness on the other hand involves carefulness in dealing with what has been entrusted, shrewdly conserving resources to meet the needs of those under one’s care.

 

Traditional recipes and quilts are but two examples of the ingenuity of women to make utility and beauty out of limited resources.

Men and Women Combine Both Principles

Masculinity and femininity as principles or archetypes are one thing; real men and women are another. It must be remembered that all people have both masculine and feminine sides to them. This common base allows women to understand men and vice versa. Real people are a blend of masculine and feminine traits—the virtues just described are celebrated in individuals of either sex.
 

Men may have their feminine side quite developed, just as women may have ready access to their masculine traits. The roles that individuals play will demand sometimes more masculine traits and sometimes more feminine ones. For example, a male kindergarten teacher will require qualities that may come more naturally to most women, while a policewoman will need to draw upon dispositions that probably are easier for most men to access.

 

All men and women have the capacity to develop the traits that are the strengths of the opposite sex. A male orderly in a senior citizen facility can learn to pay more attention to details, just as a female manager in a large company can learn to tune certain details out.
 

Yet at the same time, the greater masculinity within men means that they have certain natural strengths as well as limitations that suit them for certain tasks, just as the greater femininity of women gives them certain advantages and disadvantages. Either gender can take on just about any role, but the fit may not be as perfect.

Author Patsy Rae Dawson offers an analogy:

A six-inch brush is better for painting large surfaces and a two-inch brush is ideal for trim. Either can be used for either task, but it may take more effort to do so, such as painting trim with the larger brush.

So it is with the sexes.  Either can fill in for each other’s duties but it may take more exertion to do so.

Men and Women Need Each Other

Thus for every male or female gift, we can understand there is also a corresponding weakness or shadow. The male penchant for achievement sometimes leads to neglect of relationships; the female

sensitivity to feelings can spell difficulty in overlooking negative experiences. Thus, boys and girls, men and women need each other’s companionship and support. One side of this is humorously expressed by Rogers and Hammerstein in the musical “South Pacific”:

“There isn’t one thing wrong with any man here that wouldn’t be cured by putting him near a real live, womanly, female, feminine dame!”

The needs—or “weaknesses”—of a man only serve to draw out and accentuate the strengths of a woman, just as a husband’s unique assets are revealed and highlighted by the needs of his wife. By investing their strengths into each other as a team, the sexes create a powerful and beautiful whole greater than the sum of its parts.

This is symbolized in mythology by androgynous figures that combine masculinity and femininity and as a result have extraordinary abilities, like the blind Tiresias in Greek mythology who can foresee the future.

“A woman is half of the universe,” states Reverend Moon. “When a woman unites with a man, 180 degrees and 180 degrees come together. In marriage they form a sphere equal in value to the universe.

Submit to One Another

 

This is why the marriage partnership, though tradition speaks of well-defined roles, comes down to the interplay of the husband and wife augmenting each other’s strengths and compensating for one another’s weaknesses.

 

The spouses’ horizontal subject and object partnership means that though there is a certain stable nature to their positions, there is also dynamic movement in which roles stretch and switch according to shifting conditions. A husband’s masculine way of living for the sake of his spouse will naturally define his role and likewise with the wife’s feminine way of serving.

Instead of concern about “manly” or “womanly” tasks, the spirit of mutual service and sacrifice carries the day.  Reverend Moon puts it this way:

 

"In true love, both spouses must be obedient to each other and be willing to be united with each other. We may say, “Why do I have to obey my husband or wife? I want to be free.” But in true love, obedience, loyalty, surrender— everything is possible, and you are not humiliated by it.

"You want to be controlled by your love. In true love then, there is a heavenly dictatorship of one to the other, and you want to live that way throughout eternity."

The New Testament asserts both spouses are to “Submit to one another” out of respect for God (Ephesians 5.21). The husband submits to his conscience and the needs of his family as a true servant leader, especially to respect and care for his wife. The wife surrenders to the needs of her husband and family.

The man’s heartfelt care for his partner will tend to elicit the response he desires, just as the woman’s wholehearted support will tend to elicit the qualities she wants from her mate. Thus there is the call for each husband to “love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband” (Ephesians 5.33).
 

 

Web designer Peter Brown says of he and his wife Kim, “We just tell ourselves that, ‘True love is the boss.’ Although it sounds simple, it has a very real impact in our lives ...

[Both] the wife and the husband must bow down to the ethic of true love."


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Today's text taken from Textbook: Educating for True Love, Explaining Rev. Moon's Thought on Morality, Family, and Society.