The Idea of Family

America hates in-laws; can you love them? 

Everyone has basically the same common goal, to leave their parents, have a successful career and get married.  Will we welcome our physical parents and in-laws?

There are many popular movies that portray the situation of the in laws coming to their adult children's homes for a visit or vice versa and the funny situations that surround the disunity.  Mostly, the time that is had is not enjoyable and has hilarious results.

America today is truly hungry for parental love.  

There is a phenomena of young people running away from home.  This occurs because they do not feel that they experience love in their home.  They are hungry for love and try to find love, parental love, grandparents love, or brother's love at home.  So, when they do not taste love in the home, they run away and try to find satisfaction themselves.

Jesus came to the earth not to just set the example of a filial son and exemplary brother, but took the secondary route of salvation for humanity through the cross when he was not accepted as True Son of God. He was supposed to leave more than a path as a True Son and brother.  Jesus was to find a bride and be an example of True Father and True Husband through his family.  This would have cleared the path for True Parents reversing the Fall of our first parents.

If one was to welcome their in-laws and their own parents into their home and love them as much as they love the True Parents, then they become a saint.

The situation in America for senior citizens is not a great tradition.  Many grandmothers and grandfathers waste away in senior citizens homes.  Even though they may have a couple of friends and get visited by their family once in a while, they may watch the sun during the day and the moon at night waiting for their day of death.

This is a pitiful situation.

Americans experience a very uncomfortable family life. If a couple was visited by their parents unannounced, they might wonder why they did not call ahead of time so they could prepare dinner for them.  This may seem like a nice gesture at first, but in God's eyes, this is absolutely unacceptable.  He would wonder when do parents have to call to visit their own children.  He would think what if He was to come to Adams house, would Adam tell him He should have called first.

The children's home is the parents' home and the parents' home is the childrens' home.

In America, as soon as a newborn baby comes home they seldom sleep together with their own parents and sleep in a separate room.  In this way, they can never feel the warmth from their parents.  They are seldom fed their mother's milk and drink formula.  When parents do not sleep with their children in the same room, it is like treating them like pets.  This is not a way to treat your children.

It is a beautiful scene in God's sight when children want to sleep with their parents.  Even if there is not enough room, organize better.  One can sleep upside down and the other lay their head in the other direction.

Even if it might be uncomfortable for children to sleep between their two big parents, it feels natural and good.  In the morning the child can exclaim, "Good morning, I want to do that again, Mommy!"

Look at God's point of view. Do you think God would say, "Well this is my son's room, my daughter's room, my first son's room, my second daughter's room, my baby's room." Too many bedrooms would be needed in that case.

Let's say a good thing happened in a heavenly home. Then what is the first thing that happens? They share it. If a good thing happens to Eve, she wants to share it with Adam. She calls, "Adam, where are you? Come here." If something good happened to him, he would call Eve, and God is the same. It is a wonderful scene.

If a good thing happened would a father say, "Don't call your younger brother. He is a greedy man and we don't want to celebrate together with him. Don't call your elder sister. She is a very stingy person, and we don't want to share with her." Do you think that would happen?

Once a joyful thing happens, they want to laugh together in all different ways, to make a harmony of laughter.

When someone sets up selfish boundaries saying, "I don't want nobody to bother me or disturb me", this creates their own satanic prison and are encased within their own satanic fence.  You need to each break down the walls and barriers that surround us.

This type of movement should be initiated.  


Serving Others

All the women should serve their grandparents, satisfy them and give them some comfort and happiness. If you were to dig deep into your mind, you will find that you are hiding some type of barrier for someone.  Each time you look at them you would say that you don't like them much.

If you have animosity for some person, you must find someone of a similar character and serve him or her and try to resolve that and make up.

How can we serve one another?

Unless you become a person who can unify and harmonize family, you will not be qualified to be admitted to the Kingdom of God as a good citizen.

We have to learn how to live together in human relationships. 

There are sure to be many people who have a special distaste for older persons and senior citizens, grandmothers and grandfathers.

Would you volunteer to serve a 500 year-old grandmother or grandfather?  The person who is able to serve and loves older people - the older the better - they would be very good because who is the oldest person in the universe?

God is really the oldest grandfather! Those who love God will be in a position to love everybody younger than God.

In the garden of Eden, God's ideology was "family-ism," grand big old family-ism. Who is included in God's family?  God's family includes those of every race.  Those who dislike living with other people are the ones who will be expelled from God's family.

Is just the simple idea of just having one color ideal:?

Wouldn't a combination and harmony of many different colors be ideal?  Which is more ideal?  Would a masterpiece be only painted with the color red?  No, it would require all kinds of different color paint.  Having only white people would not create such a painting.  You would need everyone from red, yellow, light and  dark, black and white.

Have you ever seen horses tell a black horse to go away from them?

Do brown dogs segregate themselves from black dogs and dislike each other based on color?  Does the animal kingdom base their lives and recognize different skin color?  Then why do men? Man was meant to be greater than the animal kingdom and lead the way.

Something is wrong, fundamentally wrong and should be fixed and mended.  The Messiah comes a s champion to repair and reverse that which is out of order.  The human race must be repaired.

We must inherit the tradition of our own parent, God in heaven. 

You must become individually ready for it, trained for it and disciplined for it. Married people should be in a position to really live the heart of God in your home.

We must practice His way of life as our way of life, His ideology as our ideology.  Those looking forward to getting married some day look forward to occupying such a home of an ideal family.

The motto is the "Kingdom of God on Earth and Ideal Family" and we should make a pledge together to our Heavenly Father that this motto will be centered upon the ideal family.

We must make effort to construct the Kingdom of God here on earth.

We should live up to the expectations of God and be ready to truly center on this heavenly family to come.  If you pledge to become such persons, by raising your hands you show your pledge to heaven and even if you do not think you can fulfill it, you will be supported in your efforts.


Return for Tomorrow's Post:  The Messiah Lays a Foundation for World Peace

This post was rewritten and derived from the speech The Kingdom of God on Earth and the Ideal Family