Why do you think we need grandparents?
We need grandparents because they represent the living history of the past, the ancestors in history who lived before. Everyone has at least one childhood memory of loving their grandparents, hearing their stories and spending time to get to know the history of the family lineage.
The parents represent the present and the children are symbolic of the future.
Children are also the center of the whole. The center of grandparents, the center of parents, the center of God are all founded on true love.
Thus, when you love and respect your grandparents, it means to learn to inherit all the past. Through loving your father you learn from the present. Through loving children you learn about the future.
So, what does one inherit from their grandfather and grandmother, and father and mother? You inherit true love.
Although your grandfather and grandmother are old, they united in true love. Your mother and father are united. You should be like them and inherit the future.
But, we cannot inherit the future unless we become a true family.
When we take a look at the three generations, it is like looking at the universe.
But, we cannot inherit the future unless we become a true family.
When we take a look at the three generations, it is like looking at the universe.
The love of the universe resides in the true family that represents the present and future.
The Family is a Model for the Heavenly Kingdom
When we observe the animal world, we see that male and female animals love each other. This is a textbook from which we learn about the love of the universe.
Without a grandmother and a grandfather, we feel unstable. It is only with them that we can move straight into the Kingdom of Heaven.
Grandparents, mother, father and children will all go to the Kingdom of Heaven. The model and textbook for all of this is the true family that is centered on God's love. We see that this is opposite of the current families where separation, divorce, fights, selfishness and destruction is at the very core.
Those who loved the true grandparents, the true parents, the true children, the true family, nation,world and true universe will automatically go to the Kingdom of Heaven.
We can think of the ideal family as a type of educational material that teaches us how to establish the Kingdom of heaven.
A person who loves his grandfather has a model to love all the people of his grandfather's age in the world as their own flesh and blood. If he loves the people of his parents' age as his own, he will be able to travel freely throughout all the nations.
If he thinks of the young people of all nations as his own sons and daughters, he will be able to travel freely within the Kingdom of Heaven even though there are twelve pearly gates and directions.
A person who loves people in the world as his own family will have no boundaries even when he goes to the spirit world.
A person who loves his grandfather has a model to love all the people of his grandfather's age in the world as their own flesh and blood. If he loves the people of his parents' age as his own, he will be able to travel freely throughout all the nations.
If he thinks of the young people of all nations as his own sons and daughters, he will be able to travel freely within the Kingdom of Heaven even though there are twelve pearly gates and directions.
A person who loves people in the world as his own family will have no boundaries even when he goes to the spirit world.
Therefore, the family is a textbook which shows us how to make a connection with the Kingdom of Heaven.
When you apply this principle to the national level, then you will become a patriot.
When you apply it to the world, you will be a saint. When you practice it in heaven and earth, you will become God's children, or holy sons and daughters. People have such a desire.
When you apply it to the world, you will be a saint. When you practice it in heaven and earth, you will become God's children, or holy sons and daughters. People have such a desire.
You should become a person who can embrace all the sons and daughters of every race as well as their grandsons and granddaughters.
In this way, you should stand in the position to become the owners of the family who with true parents love, and love the people of the world with true love.
When you stand in the position to represent the family that practices true love connected to the original parents through God's love, you finally enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
In this way, you should stand in the position to become the owners of the family who with true parents love, and love the people of the world with true love.
When you stand in the position to represent the family that practices true love connected to the original parents through God's love, you finally enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
The Family Brings Together the Love of Three Generations
The family encompasses the whole of history, the present and the future.
What is the ultimate point that God has sought for six thousand years? It is the true family where love is interconnected and where all are united in love.
Everything that exists comes under love's dominion.
We cannot cut our relationship with this absolute source of love.
Adam and Eve's original mission was to establish such a true family. They were not just to end up as man and woman, but instead as God dreamed of a new family where they would be united. This is the first starting point towards establishing men and women.
Thus to be able to enter the Kingdom of Heaven safely, you have to find a family and within the realm of that family in this world, enter and live in a place where you can feel satisfied in God's love.
Only then can you go beyond this world as well.
Only then can you go beyond this world as well.
In order to form the family realm of love you have to be unconditional.
Parents represent the past, the husband and wife represent the present while the children represent the future.
To love one's partner during your lifetime is the equivalent to God loving the world.
To love one's partner during your lifetime is the equivalent to God loving the world.
It is where the oneness of parents, a couple, and the children offer their love that represents heaven and earth.
With this as a foundation, they would tell their descendants to follow them. The original homeland of the heart, the place where heavenly affection is felt will be remembered in heaven and earth.
With this as a foundation, they would tell their descendants to follow them. The original homeland of the heart, the place where heavenly affection is felt will be remembered in heaven and earth.
What do you think that God would be looking for up until now?
He has not been seeking a subject partner, rather He has been looking for an ideal object partner.
He has not been seeking a subject partner, rather He has been looking for an ideal object partner.
He has searched for those who resemble God and possess the inner and outer aspects of the world He created. The starting point would be the family.
To be one with the parents is the same as the past and the present meeting.
The best representative of the universe is family.
To be one with the parents is the same as the past and the present meeting.
At that point, you can love the past by loving your parents, love the present through loving your partner and love the future by loving your children.
Therefore, you can deeply experience the love of three generations within the realm of the family.
This is the placed where the three kinds of love are concentrated within the family.
The Kingdom of Heaven begins in the family. It does not unfold anywhere else.
That is all the Kingdom of Heaven is: it is a 3-D extension of the family and not something that goes beyond the family realm. Therefore, when you embrace your husband or wife, you should think that this is a man of the world becoming one with a woman of the world.
The place where you make a condition to love all of mankind begins in no other place but within the relationships of the family unit.
Therefore it makes sense that the world's problem began with the first family, therefore, all of the problems of society can be remedied within the family.
Therefore, you can deeply experience the love of three generations within the realm of the family.
This is the placed where the three kinds of love are concentrated within the family.
The Kingdom of Heaven begins in the family. It does not unfold anywhere else.
That is all the Kingdom of Heaven is: it is a 3-D extension of the family and not something that goes beyond the family realm. Therefore, when you embrace your husband or wife, you should think that this is a man of the world becoming one with a woman of the world.
The place where you make a condition to love all of mankind begins in no other place but within the relationships of the family unit.
Therefore it makes sense that the world's problem began with the first family, therefore, all of the problems of society can be remedied within the family.
You should live your life this way.
Loving your parents connects history with the present and paves a road for God to come to you.
Therefore, children should love their parents to connect the human beings of history with yourself as an inhabitant of the present, that is to unite the past and the present.
Loving your parents connects history with the present and paves a road for God to come to you.
Therefore, children should love their parents to connect the human beings of history with yourself as an inhabitant of the present, that is to unite the past and the present.
Parents love your children centering on yourself to connect the present with the future. A philosophy that practices and sings the praise of such a love for thousands of years is Unification Thought.
The Family is the Training Ground of the Heart
We cannot live separate from the heart.
Even if you are the president of a country or have global wealth or authority, you would not be able to live if you had no place to express your heartfelt joy.
Without the expression of heart, how can you feel the deepest satisfaction from the people who are under your command, office or the people who follow you?
You must feel it in your family.
You should be able to return home after a long day and feel joy through your spouse and children. This is a primal joy. It is the same with God. You should be proud of this joy in front of others.
Even if God was to snap His fingers and restore the world, He would not be able to feel any joy if there is not a family centered on love to share His love.
Even though the Western trend is to abandon the family after a certain age, we need our families after all.
Parents are meant to be the head of the family and teachers should be the head of the educational institutions which represent society.
Parents assist your physical development as you grow up as well as help you emotionally. Then why do we need school?
It trains us for life in society.
Parents assist your physical development as you grow up as well as help you emotionally. Then why do we need school?
It trains us for life in society.
If family is the school where we learn the true basic emotions, then school is the experimental training ground of society.
But, society is not where this training ground ends. It ends with the national level. Once people have experienced everything from the family to the societal level, they go on to the next level. The president is the fruit of the third stage after the formation and growth stages.
Today, many people complain about the president, but this attitude is learned within the family with children who dishonor and complain about their own parents.
A seed divides, sends roots down and a shoot up, then through circulatory action, growth begins.
But, society is not where this training ground ends. It ends with the national level. Once people have experienced everything from the family to the societal level, they go on to the next level. The president is the fruit of the third stage after the formation and growth stages.
Today, many people complain about the president, but this attitude is learned within the family with children who dishonor and complain about their own parents.
A seed divides, sends roots down and a shoot up, then through circulatory action, growth begins.
After such division comes a synthesis when flowers and fruit are produced.
Schools raise the children needed by the nation through educating them to serve the nation. Training is not real life, but a preparation stage for the life they will live.
Therefore, you should not make the wrong preparations.
How do you describe a family unit?
Family is the training ground for the heart. It is a place where you train your heart to love. This is why you should live with affections like brothers and sisters at school and also live affectionately like brothers and sisters in a nation.
Proper parental education is needed at school, in society and also by the nation.
Family is the training ground for the heart. It is a place where you train your heart to love. This is why you should live with affections like brothers and sisters at school and also live affectionately like brothers and sisters in a nation.
Proper parental education is needed at school, in society and also by the nation.
Parents should pass everything in the realm of heart on to their children.
Parents should build a foundation of heart for their children through teaching them to follow their parents' rightful footsteps in living a certain way in the family, society and in the nation.
When you look at a family, it is not necessarily a good one just because you see that they have a good house and a good environment.
On the other hand, a family might have a bad environment, or a shabby house, if it offers peace and you are connected to all things in your life to it, then it is a good family.
This home has a foundation of heart where the parents and children live for the sake of each other.
This is the original homeland where memories and the source of motivation for all living begins. Then it becomes the base to determine how much happiness we have in life.
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This post was rewritten and derived from True Family Cheon Seong Gyeong Book 4, Chapter three
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