Can We Become 'Ideal'?

What does the ideal mean?  Is it possible for a man to become ideal?

Only God can be the subject to this explanation.  This means that God is central to the ideal.

God's goal is the creation of the ideal house of the universe.

The Divine Principle, which this blog is based upon, teaches that the Messiah will come to the family, which is the building block of the universe.

Your home began with your parents.  A husband and wife, plus children are there.  Is this all there is needed to have happiness in the home is having parents and brother and sister?

Happiness comes when you have harmony in relationships, when there is loving give and take.

A happy home is an environment that allows you to freely express yourself in love.

If something joyful happens to you, would you like to celebrate it by yourself or look for someone you can share it with?

You would look for a loved one to rejoice; a husband wants to rejoice with his wife, parents with their children and children with their parents.

Would the ideal home consist of siblings that fight with their parents?

Wouldn't it be more natural for them to want to be with their parents?  A wife and husband do not come together for just their own happiness, but solely for their children.

The relationships that are contained within the four-position foundation (husband, children, sibling, God) can cover the entire earth.  Children eventually become parents who have their own children, who in turn become  parents continuing this cycle.

Would the children think that it is bad that their parents call the town together to celebrate with them when they are happy?

Would children want their parents to only share their happiness with the children instead?

Father's children could understandably complain in their hearts that their parents spend too much time with the church members instead of having fellowship with the children.

If children have this selfish thinking can they be called good children?  Father's children would not complain because they understand that they labor to pour out their love for the sake of the world.  For that reason, they appreciate their parents.

What is happiness within children whose parents work hard for the members of their church and for a public purpose?  They have happiness because they know eventually that love will come to them.  The ones who receive that devoted parent's love will pour their love to the children.

If those parents instead spent time with their children instead of the the members, then the members would be justified in their complaints that Father only loves his own family.

Those parents aren't neglecting their children, of course they love them, but more than their own children, they love society, nation and the world. Eventually that love will come back to our children.  This principle is true and will not change with time, nor will its value diminish.

When you love the universe more than your own family, you are entitled to receive more and ultimately it will benefit your own children. 

Ideal parents will expand their love universally.

If the parents bring a great benefit and love to Russia, when their parents visit there, they will be well received with love and respect.  If the parents love the world, then wherever their children go, they will be welcomed.

When people receive a lot, they want to reciprocate.  When parents see that their parents are loving the world and working hard to spread that love, the children should not feel neglected.  They should be able to understand this realization and see it as their hope.

What if a wife only wanted her husband to pay attention to only her, or a husband wants his wife to ignore other families and pay attention only to him?  Such a person deserves hell.

Many American women are this way.  They even look for a man who does not have a family ties so he will pay attention only to her as the wife.  A husband or wife usually become jealous when the spouse pays too much attention to the family, resenting the love that person gives to someone else.

If the world is filled with such husbands and wives, would this be a hellish or heavenly place?

Women should realize that the ideal husband is he who loves his wife, but loves his parents, brothers and sisters and neighbors as much as he does her.

That kind of husband is not wasting time with others, but inviting their love for his wife.  It is only natural that the love he shares with them will come back to her.  A daughter-in-law can become the central figure to the husband's family because of the love she gives.

She can become a queen of love in that house.  Any home that violates that principle is judged and shall decline.  Is this true or false?

Some women who are humble and live this principle may not be as pretty, but are ideal because they have this concept of ideal womanhood, ideal family and ideal love.

What kind of husband would you want?

The kind that does not have a family or the one who has nagging parents and grandparents and even great grandparents?  The husband with the big family will be the most exciting place to go.  There you have more objects to love and fellowship with.  By having this foundation, you can receive more love.

This principle is very simple, but American women are blind to it.  Once they are awakened to this way of life, however, a revolution will occur in American homes.

Now, you have the tools to become an ideal husband or wife.

What if your husband disappeared on the night of your honeymoon?  Then you find him in fellowship with his father-in-law, and the next night with his mother-in-law.  If you were unable to see your husband the whole honeymoon, would you complain when you see him loving your parents instead?


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This post was rewritten and derived form the speech Ideal Home