Children Need God, Too

Growth in the Child’s Sphere

God created the family as a school of love to naturally influence people to be other-centered and pull them away from their self-centerdness.

Each person is required to give up more and more the love of just self and give more to others in order to experience fulfillment.

The family school of love works step by step naturally to pull people out of self-centeredness into other-centeredness. This process begins in the child's realm.

A child learns to obey and control impulses, including the aggressive ones, out of love for their parents and a strong desire for their approval.

The child learns to take care of things, clean up, prevent messes, do their homework, and respect others and property.

As Fraiberg writes, “There are obligations in love even for little children. Love is a given, but it also

earned. At every step of the way in development, a child is obliged to give up territories of his self-love in order to earn parental love and approval.”

To relate well with his or her parents, children need to relate well and kindly to siblings and playmates.

A child learns that his good relationship with his parents depends in part how well he or she treats his or her brothers or sisters, classmates, and friends.

As they grow, the 'horizontal' relationship to their parents takes on a life and significance of its own, even though they are never fully separated in a relationship from them.

Adolescent Children

As children try to define their identities and emotional boundaries as they grow to adolescence, the relationship to please their parents may become stormy and difficult.

Influences outside the family hold sway as adolescence forge relationships to the larger society and world.

As their family's moorings loosen, children may become emotionally tossed around, and experience great highs and lows.

It is important for parents to continue to nourish and assert this main bond of parent/child and the values it represents and recognize the growing importance of their peers and their child's independent identities.

Parents should do this to the sacrifice of their child's peer's influence and some of their child's decision-making power. In order for them to continue to growing in the child's realm of heart this is necessary.

“Our son was succeeding academically and socially in public school,” recounts Mona, a mother of three. “It was the social success that worried us! He’s sweet and smart and a good athlete, and girls called him, asked him for dates, and to go steady with them.

“Our son knew our standard on early dating, and he tried hard to withstand the peer pressure, but it was definitely confusing for him during this vulnerable time of his life.

“When we told him we were enrolling him in a religious school where students’ families and the faculty shared our values, he was upset at first. But soon he underwent a transformation.

“He became more and more responsible and, in this supportive environment, his faith grew and grew. I thank God, for many reasons, that we as parents made that tough decision.”

One pastor, Dave, is in favor of parents taking a strong stand when their children may not be going in the right direction. “Taking a kid out of school and finding him a new one, grounding him or doing whatever else you need to do to pull him up short—that might look like shutting him down,” he says.

“But in fact, it’s giving him the possibility of a whole new life. In almost every case I’ve seen where the parents took a strong stand, it worked.”

Dave also commented that children will sense their parents deep love for them with such actions and respond with gratitude.

This is an illustration of the two points of the child's realm of heart shown during adolescence: First, it demonstrates that the relationship with parents is the primary one superseding. 

Also, directing relationships with peers and this vertical relationship with parents and their parents' values are crucially important to their growth.

Second, it shows that adolescence is a time when the young people mind questions everything and needs to be directed toward God.

When we look at adolescence from a spiritual point of view, there is more than the child forming a separate identity from one's parents in psychological terms. It involves expanding the sphere of children's love to include the ultimate Parent, God.

The fulfillment of the child’s realm of heart is to relate to God with filial piety.

This truly means to respond to God with love, faith and obedience like that of a loving, trusting, responsible child.

“We never know the love of the parent 'till we become parents ourselves.”

Henry Ward Beecher made this observation which highlights how filial love of a child evolves through growing and facing the responsibilities that come with being an adult.

A new understanding and sympathy for parent's roles come as sons and daughters become a spouse, a parent, the breadwinner, a middle-aged caretaker of others and a responsible community member.

As sons and daughters rise to the more advanced realms of heart, spousal and parental realms, they grow to appreciate those who had these responsibilities before which they now face.

When children expand to a higher level of heart, they will appreciate through understand and service to their parents.

The long accumulation of a child’s debt to his or her parents begins to be repaid with gratitude.

There may be the time when the child grows up and becomes his or her own parents caretaker.

Some parents become a child again and lean heavily on their sons and daughter's strength. At these times, they assume the parental role toward his or her own parents. 

 Changing their diapers, paying old debts, settling the family estate and becoming the patriarch or matriarch of the family while urging their parents to take a rest.

When parents become elderly, the child's world/realm of heart comes full circle.

As one woman said: 

"As a young Catholic I was inspired by the saints. I had always wanted to do things like work with Mother Teresa in India, but most of my life has not been so glamorous. After college I became a teacher in an elementary school. 

"And then my mother had a stroke and I had to drop out of teaching and help her for two years; bathe her, care for her bedsores, cook, pay the bills, run the house. At times I wanted to complete these responsibilities and get back to my spiritual life. Then one morning it dawned on me—I  was doing the work of Mother Teresa, and I was doing it in my own home.

A child's love which is mature may involve taking up tasks to fulfill their parent's unrealized dreams.

Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowsky, who created the portraits on Mt. Rushmore, accepted a commission in 1947 offered by Lakota chief Standing Bear to carve a massive tribute to the great Native American chief Crazy Horse out of a mountain in South Dakota.

Knowing how much the project meant to the Native Americans who had had their sacred Black Hills violated by the Mt. Rushmore project, he determined not only to do a bust, but to do a full figure of a man on horseback.

This bust was going to be ten times larger than his Mt. Rushmore project. He dedicated decades to the project, but left it unfinished after he died in 1982.

His children comforted him before his death and committed to bring his dream project to completion.

This is an example of children's love by becoming a person who makes his or her parents proud.

Confucius said, “True filial piety consists in successfully carrying out the unfinished work of our forefathers and transmitting their achievements to posterity.”

This was echoed by Thomas Macaulay, Western poet, when he wrote:

“And how can man die better than facing fearful odds for the ashes of his fathers and the temples of his gods?”

The person the child becomes as an adult is a gift laid at the altar of his or her parents’ love.

A child's mature heart is reflected in his or her relationship with God.

“There is a common saying, 'What you are is a gift from God. What you become is your gift to Him.”

When we return appreciation and devotion to God for all He has done for us throughout our life and history this reflects His nature. 

 It also makes His dreams, concerns and tasks our own which are hallmarks of filial piety and a true child's heart toward our ultimate Parent.

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This post was rewritten and derived from the religious textbook, "Educating for True Love" written by a team of writers to explain Reverend Sun Myung Moon's philosophy on family and love.

Seven Principles for Loving Relationships Part II

We continue part two of the seven principles for loving relationships:

6. Investing Towards Oneness

In order to realize love, we need to trust in the potential for unity between complementary partners. 

Everything that is complementary to one another first begin as separate beings in the world, but are drawn into oneness.

Despite the complementary nature of men and women, they do not easily get along. Sometimes they can seem like adversaries.

Any group of men or women's conversation at one point turn toward the complaints about the opposite gender.

Men may say that 'women talk too much,' women may say that 'men are so insensitive'. This is the long history of misunderstanding that happens between the sexes. There is also mistrust, abuse, and exploitation.

The ultimate unification of masculine and feminine takes place in marriage and in making a family.

Through a husband and wife embracing one another and through having many experiences with their children throughout the years, a man and woman can come to understand and appreciate the opposite sex.

The husbands and sons represent masculinity in all phases of development as also a man embraces all femininity trough his love for his wife and daughters.

Therefore, married life provides a fascinating, ongoing adventure of bonding of masculinity and femininity.

Through marriage, men and women become better mirrors of the divine.

“In the image of God He created him; male and female he created them,” the Bible reminds us; man and

woman together echoes the Creator’s own “wedded” nature Genesis 1.27.

A Hindu scripture speaks of the original Self or Creator as splitting in two to make man and woman. Thus making each 'like half of a split pea'. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 1.4.3

A couple that is an example of this is a full mirror of the Godhead.

Reverend Moon shows the married couple as a smallest unit of humanity. This is in the sense of fulfilling the purpose of human creation as God's complete reflection and love partner.

This is why the love between man and woman can be uniquely edifying.

7. Unity Around a Higher Purpose

People who unify based on a higher purpose, this is a basic context for true love. Every being in creation tends toward unity, based upon shared purposes.

Unity is the beginning point of love, the point where love can come to abide . . . . When both come closer and closer they can meet at one point between them. In other words, by both of them denying themselves for a greater purpose, they can unite with each other. That is the standard of true love.

—Sun Myung Moon

American President Richard Nixon spoke about how one extraordinary moment in time united people of all lands when Neil Armstrong, landed successfully on the surface of the moon:

“For one priceless moment, in the whole history of man, all the people on this Earth are truly one. One in their pride in what you have done. One in our prayers that you will return safely to Earth.”

People united in celebration of what he had done and all were passengers in a spaceship alone in black, cold space. This moment was profoundly moving and gratifying where all inhabitants of the earth united in oneness.

Unity, the sense of belonging to something greater than ourselves, is something we deeply desire.

To bring unity, it also helps to keep problems that are small and tensions in perspective.

“I wanted as little to do with my supervisor as possible,” recallsa medical technician. “But when I saw how hard she worked to throw a Christmas party for the kids in the critical care ward, I just had to give up my grudge and help her.”

When we give ourselves to the greater good, it feeds us self-respect. This supports our ability to love and invest further in the relationship.

Therefore, when people unify centered upon a greater purpose, this is the best context for lasting love

We will discuss more on this principle in the next post..

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This post was rewritten and derived from the religious textbook, Educating for True Love, written by a team of writers to explain Reverend Sun Myung Moon's philosophy.

God's Child Doesn't Need An Appointment

When I speak to you, my desire is to speak the words you can learn from the most. Often people comment that Unification Church members are good at speaking; probably this is because you have listened to so many sermons!

You are capable of speaking with renowned scholars and heads of state with confidence because you know that the knowledge you have gained from your understanding of Divine Principle is superior.


Reverend Sun Myung Moon



Some of you doze during the sermon; some of you may be thinking of what you will be doing after this and other of you are truly listening, but when it comes time for you to defend your beliefs you become very animated and eloquent.

If Adam had followed God's guidance and reached perfection, he would have undoubtedly have been able to walk into heaven without an appointment.  You want to do that as well.

If you have a close relationship with someone, appointments are not necessary in order to see each other.

A rich man's servant would not desire a close relationship with him, while his children are able to freely move about the house and go wherever they desire.

Since you are the children of God, do you think that you should get permission to visit places within your Father's world which He created for you?

The world we live in was not the world which God desired.  This world that we experience with boundaries and barriers only came about as the result of the Fall, after we followed Satan's will.

Everyone desires the kind of world which is open to everyone. 

A world free of boundaries is better than the world that we are currently a part of.

What if we lived where it was possible to buy a pass that enables us to travel freely around the world and even in spirit world without limits?  You would probably give up everything you had in order to gain such freedom.

Since we are the Creator's children, wouldn't He want to issue us a pass that allows us to go anywhere in creation?

But Satan makes his demands and tells God that He cannot freely just give permission to fallen man who has followed him.   Satan will say, though,  "If another man makes the right conditions in following  your direction, I will accept it, but You cannot do it for them."

In order for mankind to be able to freely enjoy passage throughout God's creation, we have to make an indemnity condition.  We set the foundation through home church of witnessing to 360 homes in our area.

Through this providential work, we are working for the world with the people in our area representing the people of the world.

Whatever the parents own, the children inherit.

We are living in the age where we can pay indemnity conditions through restoration.  You are doing home church providence not because you are highly capable, but because you are the children of the True Parents, the Lord of the Second Advent and his bride who have reversed Adam and Eve's mistake.

As you are walking this path of home church, you are telling people the good news of the Completed Testament and about the coming of the True Parents (Returned Messiah and True Wife) who reversed the sins of the fall created by our first parents.

Thus, people can be proud of the True Parents who have reversed the sin caused by the fallen, false parents who inherited the sinful blood lineage of Satan. They can be proud of the heavenly family and proud to be related to God.

Through this work of restoration, you inherit the position and heart of true parents through taking care, loving and teaching those in your area as if they were your own children.

Thus, you free yourself from any accusation and judgment from Satan before God.  This is a requirement for everyone that God cannot do for you.


This is why I push you out to do home church. I want you to get that free pass, that Heavenly I. D. card, which will allow you total freedom. Since I have passed on to you this inheritance, you must share it with your home church members; otherwise, it will go nowhere. Either way you look at it, home church is a necessity.


As Father has walked this course to complete the mission of Jesus, which is not just spiritual salvation, but physical salvation, all the powers of Satan and his forces came against him.

It is like the story of Job in the Bible, Satan accused God saying that it was only because God blessed him that he achieved anything.  Satan demanded that God test him by taking everything away from him and see if he would stay strong.

God had to push Father into many suffering situations.

As we walk this path of restoration, we must also go through similar trials, but our encounters are small in comparison to Father's experiences.

You may think that God has left you and is nowhere near you and you will feel that He cannot help you at all, but as soon as you keep going beyond that situation, God can pour out His blessing abundantly upon you.

Whenever you go into a situation, remember that God has made preparations for you; you are not entering haphazardly.

Even though God has made all of the preparations, He still has to let you tackle the situation and make it a success.

The True Parents go beyond all satanic blame and received the I.D. card of total freedom.

In order for you to receive this card, the archangel must sign it as well as the perfected Adam.  As soon as you receive the signatures, you can travel freely in Adam's world, the spirit world and even in Satan's realm without any accusations.

The heavenly hierarchy is God first, then Adam and Eve, then the angelic world, then all the things of Creation.

This of course was the original heavenly order, but was disrupted.

Satan came into existence through our listening to the archangel's word instead of God's holy word.  We have fallen so low that we don't know the world of spirit, we don't know if God exists or what kind of relationship we were supposed to have with God.

We don't know the heart of the original Adam and the true parental heart.  The only thing we know is the fallen realm of suffering and disobedience.

All mankind can see is the 'I', and we only see the visible and tangible world of creation.  Mankind is degraded and is lower than the creation.  The creation follows God and the laws of the universe absolutely, while man disobeys these laws.  Because of this situation, no one truly knows the dignity that human beings were supposed to possess.

Before you learned these facts through the Divine Principle and the horrible situation we have fallen to, you weren't even aware what you had lost or what kind of ideal to search for.

Finally, in the Completed Testament Age, we can know what the true ideal is.

Everything else, including our possessions, our nationalities. our careers. is meaningless until the basic questions of life are resolved.

The only real value is in finding out how to restore mankind's dignity and recovering that lost ideal.  How wonderful it will be when each level of God's ideal world is established from the individual, family all the way to the worldwide level.

You are able to achieve all of these of restoration through one 'school' without having to spend hundreds of years to achieve them.  Through the realm of the 360 homes in  your area, everything is represented, 360 days of the year and 360 degrees of a circle.

But you need to gain a certificate which shows that you have completed the seven levels of the human ideal.

There is one thing that Satan hates and fears the most and that is the day He is able to give that certificate to all of mankind.  It does not matter, because Satan has to bow down before the Principle.

When the Messiah discovered the secrets of the Fall, and a way for people to COMPLETELY free themselves from Satan's dominion, the Divine Principle is like a newspaper revealing Satan's deepest secrets.

This is Satan's situation today; he feels desperate as the truth is revealed.

If we were to witness people one-by-one to the truth of the age, it would take centuries to liberate the entire world.  If you were in the Messiah's position, wouldn't you want to find a more effective way to bring all mankind back to God?

If you were to ask God where He would most like to dwell, He would answer "Home Church".

When you witness to your area, the heavenly hierarchy is being restored.  The house represents all the things of creation; the ancestors of the people already in spirit world represent the archangel's position; and the Adam position is filled by the people themselves.

Once God has relation with all of the elements, the ideal of creation will be realized.  Satan will have to leave as a result because he will not have any place to call his own.  Since you are in America, all races of man are contained in your area.

All the races have freedom within America, according to law.

When you look into history, it is no coincidence, because this country's foundation was laid by people searching for liberty, especially religious liberty.  The first 200 years of American history, indemnity was paid for the 2000 years since Jesus.

This is the time when we must succeed.

We should feel that the time of the fulfillment of God's ideal world of Heaven on Earth is drawing near.

The founders of the world's religions namely Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha and Conscious themselves can work directly on the earthly plane because of the foundation and sacrifices laid by the people of faith.

What kind of work do you think they will be assisting?  This time of restoring the world is not only the work of people on earth to inherit.

Definitely, people on earth and in the spirit world are called to do the work of home church to receive the heavenly certification.  Because your ancestors have direct access to you and your inheritance, they can assist you in your work and receive the heavenly certificate alongside you.


Last Sunday, February 22, I went to the Holy Ground and prayed about these points. This is the time that all indemnity must be paid for the failures during Jesus' time. Also the persecution of our movement by the world, both the communistic and democratic, must be indemnified. 



There must be a spiritual as well as a physical indemnity that must be paid for all the wrongs done throughout history.  Therefore, the spiritual and the physical worlds must be mobilized.

There is no other way to go toward a world of peace.

Before this time, your 360-home area was under Satan's dominion, who is the chief criminal of the angelic world.  He was able to do as he pleased according to his desire using the people with Cain-type personalities.

Now you are working with the Messiah and you have the assistance of the good angels as well as God Himself through this path of restoration.

As you go to your area, the good angels will work with you and chase away the evil angels.

This is not just fantasy, that kind of confrontation will take place.  Until now, Satan had greater power over the good people on the earth.

Before, even with the shedding of many tears, much prayers and indemnity, good people could only make Satan retreat for just a short time and only in a small way.

But in the time of the Second Advent where the Messiah clears the path and makes Satan bow down, we have not only achieved equal leverage with Satan, but we have achieved dominance over him.

You should see evidence to the truth of this.

You must know that you are truly living in an amazing time never witnessed before but prayed about by million of saints throughout the ages.

Armed with this knowledge alone that you are obtaining about God's viewpoint of restoring the world and the truth about the fall, you are able to confront evil forces squarely.

Your odds are better than 50-50 to win this battle.

You will not go into this battle alone.  All the good angels can work alongside you with and support you which has never been the case.

America is experiencing many problems such as youth alienation, drug abuse, and breakdown of the family.  How can we fathom conquering these problems without finding the root cause of them through the new truth of the Bible revealed in the Completed Testament?

We must push past the boundaries of what we mentally understand and we must know and act.  We should deeply understand the importance of doing home church.

When you go out to your area. you can command the spirit world, in the name of God and True Parents, to come and help you; and your command will have effect.  More and more spiritual phenomena will occur in our favor.

The best way to lay a foundation to be able to command the spirit world, including your ancestors, is to follow the directions and examples of the truth given by the Messiah.

By following the examples of the True Parents, the children become true children not just by name but also in reality.

Then the children incorporate the pure tradition of the parents and pass it on to their own children.  You should be proud to hold this title.  Whenever you are persecuted for following this path, you should demand a some reason for such attitude.

If Jesus' disciples had followed him along with all of Israel as the Messiah and son of God and he lived beyond 33 years old, the next major step was to conquer Rome.  There would have been no need for Jesus to return in our time or 400 years of Christian persecution.


I have spoken out very boldly and strongly here and by doing so, I took many risks for myself and the movement's progress. Why have I done this? In this way, Jesus' inability to go to Rome and fight for God's purposes could be indemnified. These next seven years must be a successful period. Otherwise, communism would totally occupy the world and religion would be wiped out everywhere.


At this time, we have a direct connection with the highest realms of spirit world.

Those in the highest of spirit realms are coming down to participate directly with us.  Accordingly, your pray should directly appeal to those higher spiritual realms.

Your prayer can be strong and short, "Heavenly Father, whatever True Parents are planning, let it be done.".  You can, also, ask spirit world to come and help you with your mission.

You must make a determination that you will accomplish a total victory in your home church area leaving nothing for others to finish later.

You should have the attitude that you will invite the Messiah to come and receive joy and glory at the successful completion of your home church work.

With this confidence, you can call upon the spirit world and receive direct help.  You are in the subject position, so you must work hard and feel responsible for your area.  Only then will the spirit world be able to assist you.



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This post was rewritten and derived from the speech Total Completion of the Ideal

How to Gain Spiritual Help

"What attitude do we need to nurture in order to move the spirit world? We need to change our concepts. Our attitude is an environment that must be prepared in order to receive spiritual help. We must use Father's words and make ourselves channels to receive spiritual power."

Is it possible that we can dominate the spirit world and what does that actually mean?  After Adam and Eve chose to ignore the commandment of God and chose the words of the spirit Lucifer to eat and have their eyes opened, humanity has been led by evil spirit world ever since.  Through religion and the work of saints and people of conscious, good spirit world has been able to work throgh people of goodness as well.  Reverend Sun Myung Moon speaks further about this situation: 

"Actually, the spirit world wants to be part of everything we have and do. They want to be involved to such a great extent. So whatever we may look at, we must search for the nobility in it, and treat it as if it were owned directly by True Parents. Then everything becomes like an expensive antique, a God-given treasure. Each object is waiting for your touch, hoping to feel the vibration of God through you.

Consider all things holy. Why does a handkerchief owned by a holy man become so valuable? Because of the vibration of the holy man. So you, too, should give all things a holy value. When you touch something, feel that you are giving it glory.

The same holds true for the people we meet and live with. When you see another person, how much do you care for him or her? How do you feel towards that person? You must really love the people you meet, because they are the temples of God. When you touch another person, feel that through your touch, both of you will be blessed.

Each of us has two aspects, mind and body. Our true mind wants to touch our body with heart and give love to it. We should think of our mind as God's mind, because God loves it and that is where He dwells. Look at each man or woman as a holy person. Regard each person's body as sacred and their mind as hallowed.

If you live like this, soon you will hear inside of yourself a small voice, the sound of your mind. Wherever you walk, no evil or darkness can remain. Only good spirits can touch you if you create such an atmosphere. If you place yourself in such a position, then spirit world will pour down upon you its abundant blessing and power.

You must attract this power from the spirit world and then weld yourself to it. Make it one with your body, so that even your arms and legs feel special. When you are in bed, even if it is a sleeping bag, your surroundings will become like a king's palace; your body will be resting in a king's bed.

You must name yourself as the dwelling place of God. Then all good spirits will touch you. When you go to bed, lie down with a beautiful mind. Remove all ugliness from it. In the morning when you wake, come before the deep bosom of God, and then, when you go out to your mission, you will embark from the throne of God.

The spirit world is always around you, listening and attentive. Always be aware that it is within your reach. If you keep thinking this way, then you will be able to control your circumstances. Make yourself a tuning fork, resonating with and vibrating along God's frequency. Resonate with God's unselfishness.

If you partake of this resonance with God, then when you see someone, you will automatically be able to sense what type of person he is. Sometimes you will be able to see your own spirit man with your own eyes. Train yourself and discipline yourself to develop this capacity. If you live this way, you will be always able to act in the right way when an emergency arises."

Daily, you compete with the spirit world, so we must learn how to conquer and surpass it.  As God's children, he created us to subjugate the spirit world, but in our circumstances spirit world dominates the creative world. With deep prayer, within our mind, we can become a magnet, a mover of people's spirits.  We must become a spiritual magnet, drawing people with love.  If we retain this high standard of condition, our prayer will become reality.

"Pray with all your heart, focusing your mind and soul on the object of your prayer, otherwise your mind will become restless and hasty. In the life of prayer, you must make the time to pray. Sit down even if it takes eight hours and pray; this time will never be wasted. Then you can go out and work eight hours for God.

Therefore, be prayerful now and then go out, you and God together. If you have to write a sermon, for instance, the spirit world will help you prepare it. If you go out, the spirit world will lead you. You will discover the feeling of breaking through; you will become selfless, feeling the power of your mind and body pulling together in harmony. So the key word for this kind of life is respect.

Respect all things as holy things.

Respect all men as holy men.

Respect yourself as a holy person.

Respect your mind as holy.

Respect your body as holy.

Pay deep respect to all people, no matter what kind of person they may be. As a child, be respectful towards an elderly man.

Think over your words three times before uttering them and always have a humble attitude.

Always share with others the best thing you have. Empty your pocketbook to give; then you will deserve the best result.

If you do not do good for your fellowman, you will have no sleep; if you have done good, then your mind will rest in peace.

Unpack the dirty elements inside yourself and cleanse them. Open up the baggage of your mind and look what you find there. Don't harbor selfish feelings. Repent publicly for any selfish feelings you may have entertained. Practice the virtue of meekness.

If you push yourself to develop these attitudes, then the spirit world must descend to assist you. The spirit world is using so many channels by which to come down and participate in God's providence; they will choose the best one to use first.

In the Unification Church a true leader must be able to mobilize the spirit world. When you touch it, all kinds of phenomena start to occur some very strange, some very wonderful. Don't be manipulated by them. You be the subject. Don't let yourself be driven by strange phenomena; before this, you may have had to face these challenges all alone, but now you have a clearer understanding.

You already know the secret of tapping power from the spirit world; witness to others, pouring out all your heart, soul and mind for them. When I was in prison camp, I would pray, and prisoners would just come to me and stand there. When they were introduced to me through the guidance of spirit world they would cling to me.

You, too, can be like me. The problem is that you are often too distant from thinking about the spiritual dimension: holy things, holy mankind, holy temple, holy mind. When I was in the worst of situations, lonely and hungry, a revelation would come or an important guest would appear before me. When I needed money, the spirit world would guide someone to me. Spirit world is never far away; they can cooperate with us. We should always feel that we are not doing quite enough, and that we always have to try harder.

Act with the support of the spirit world. If they are behind you, you will never be lonely; you will always have energy and power. Even though you may be penniless, still have no fear. You can be adventurous and bold. On the road of success, the more you walk, the further you yearn to go.

Who knows how long he or she will live? Maybe tomorrow you will die, at a mere 25 or 30 years of age. Do you have some guarantee from God how long you will live? No one has such a guarantee.

A wise person thinks like this: "I have only a short time to live. Within this time I must prepare myself for eternity. The way I live in the next two years will be the model for my eternal life." Then explode your sense of love. Love God, and love another person as God. For an entire day, 24 hours pour out your entire energy for someone.

 If you love a person like this, even though you may die early, you will have made the highest accomplishment in all eternity. Then when God gives you more time to live, your response will be immense gratitude. Push yourself to live more fully. The person who expects death and then is given life dwells in the fullest gratitude.

Leave behind something that God can praise. Each moment is so precious there is no time for worry or frustration. The person who recognizes that earthly life is short compared to eternity and, therefore, condenses his accomplishments is a wise man indeed. Think about what "label" you wear spiritually on your forehead. Ask yourself how many people, how many clans, how many tribes, how many nations you have loved.

Seek to become that master of love. Program your life like that, and you will never be a loser. Plan as if you only had two years to live, and then by the third year, when you are still alive, think of the joy of living! This is "resurrected" living. I still have so much to do: love my wife, love my children, love all mankind. I have to love the Unification Church; I must pay indemnity for all mankind; I need to liberate man from sin. I am determined to leave behind tremendous assets."

We must change our mindset to do everything for the purpose of love. So, even when you work, you must love that business, love the products you work with, and, of course, love the people. Always give honor to other people.

Even though God created us, he gave us the ability to reshape and restore ourselves into the original image. 

We tithe to church a portion of what we earn back into God's providence.  This is a way to separate the money we earn from the satanic world by offering part of it back to God to claim it ass a sacred offering.  Three-tenths is the best standard. Give one tenth to the local church, one tenth to the national level work and one tenth for the worldwide level.

We should thimk that each time we give, we are giving a heavenly treasure, not just money frm our own pocket. Then the person who is receiving through you is actually receiving from God. The spirit world can then help you, and God will remember everything and return it to you ten times over.

Going to work can become tiresome day in and day out, but we must not feel like a worker or supervisor.   Make your company a dwelling of God. Invest your heart in your work. Determine to make it a business that will serve all people. Then wherever your business goes, it becomes God's "love extension." Whatever you are responsible for, give it your heart and soul on a 24-hour basis; feel like you are the parent and it is your baby.

Whatever you do, think that you are carrying it out in partnership with God. Feel that you are the second owner and pour all your love into it. The one who loves something the most is the ultimate owner. When you give love, you will attain infinite value.

Return for Tomorrow's Post: Don't Doubt in the Dark What God Told You in the Light

This text was taken from How to Gain Spiritual Help given by Rev. Sun Myung Moon.

Clean Up on Aisle "End of the Evil World"

Tomorrow is Achieve World Peace's day off but will return for Sunday's Post: Chasity With the Intent to Marry.

Every person of faith probably at one time wondered how their belief could help save others and the world.  Wasn't that what the original purpose of religion was?  To save humanity?  How are we to go about saving the world and end evil?

Some will say that is God's job.  If that responsibility was only left up to God, wouldn't he had done that back in the Garden of Eden when evil originated?  Why wait millions of scientific years to save His children? 

God has been working behind the scenes for all of this time, but He has left humanity 5% responsibility for their part in restoration.   Some call this portion, free will. We have the ability to do for God or completely ignore our responsibility.

The only way to enter Heaven is to go through Hell, and come out the other side. The world to which we presently belong is the world of Hell. The only ladder that will connect us to Heaven is the other side of Hell. We pass through the tunnel of this Hell and reach to the ladder on the other side and climb up toward Heaven. This side represents the world of evil, and the world of goodness is represented here.

Therefore, the Messiah teaches us to live a life of service for others, sacrifice and fast. It is exactly opposite to what our bodies desire. Does America belong to Heaven or Hell at this point?  It belongs to hell.  If the President hears this, he would be offended by these comments.

How about your attitude? Our conscience knows clearly where we stand when it comes to our dedication and commitment to our faith. Once we join the spiritual world, there is no more deception and all atrocities hidden on earth cannot be hidden and are revealed. Whichever level each of you has attained spiritually on this earth is where you will dwell absolutely in the spiritual realm.  


The Messiah is the True Example

Do you think that the Messiah would be seduced by beautiful Hollywood people or would he kick them away? Definitely, he would kick them away.  What about all of us? Satan may utilize various tactics in order to seduce us. By observing the Messiah's life we can know that he is one hundred percent at one with his teachings. The Messiah never falls into the satanic traps of this world, no matter what.

Do Americans, in general, fully understand parental love? Then how can they be referred to as people? Even animals demonstrate parental love in their lives. The birds and animals often sacrifice themselves in order to protect the life of their young from attack.

Individuals who cannot attain the same level as animals can hardly be referred to as human beings. No matter how proud they may be of themselves, they will fall below the animals. That is Hell. Why do you suppose that the author of the Diving Principle which this blog is based upon  makes such a strong statement against American people rather than giving comforting words? Because it is the Messiah's responsibility to use even his force to push God's people to follow in the right direction.

A surgeon will cut open an infectious wound in order to heal the patient, even if it might be painful.

Therefore, the Messiah will not tell people of faith to take care only of themselves and their families. Rather he will push them to take the more difficult path for the sake of others. When we see the nation of America and the entire world decaying, we cannot live for our family's happiness alone. The Divine Principle, which is based on the bible as the Completed Testament, is crystal clear.

Individuals should sacrifice for the sake of the family, the family should sacrifice for the nation, and the nation for the sake of the entire world. That is how we will be able to liberate God, and build the Kingdom of God on the Earth.

Restoration of World Requires Sacrifice

If the entire population of America begins to sacrifice themselves for the sake of the entire world, then America will only prosper. It will stand forever as the central nation. The Messiah knows that he has to sacrifice his own life for the sake of the entire world. Also, true family have been sacrificed in many ways.

If your mission becomes a little more difficult than those of others and you begin to compare yourself with others instead of marching ahead, your offering becomes stained. Do you want to belong to a group of people who are constantly comparing their situation with other people, or just marching forward, looking straight ahead?

What if God commands for all people of faith to pack and leave for Africa. Will each of you reading here do so immediately? We always procrastinate in the face of Heaven's direction to us. If this is our thinking then we are no different than the disciples who sold Jesus. 

What is the meaning of money? If you continue to follow money you will lose your lives. We don't need knowledge, fame or power.

The Messiah's life has been opposing and denying all of these external things.


The Grand Clean Up

In order to accomplish this grand clean up of the history of the world, we have to be determined to go all the way to the end of the world in order to pay indemnity. Without doing so we will not be able to achieve this goal. This is the position in which we are now standing.

There is up and down, front and rear, and right and left. Where is the good side?  Good is up, down is evil, right is good, left is evil, front represents good and rear represents evil. It is always relative.

Those self-centered individuals who feel proud of themselves are not good people. We have to realize that those who hold high positions of power may not be qualified to hold such positions. Those leaders may disappear in the future and others, more qualified will replace them.

If the American people were living their lives for the sake of God and, at the same time a foreigner is doing their absolute best to lead their life for the sake of God, and if the degree of devotion and sacrifice they offer is greater than the American people's offering, then they will go beyond America.

If your position is down and there are leaders who are proud of themselves at that position, it means that you are down in the area of evil, paying indemnity; but if your devotion and sacrifice is greater than those evil leaders, you will automatically exceed them.

Love America More Than Evil Leaders

At the present time, many Native Americans are living on welfare from the government. Some people accuse the government of providing money and liquor to Native American Indians, encouraging them to drink and become hopeless.

On the other hand, if Native American Indians truly understood the purpose of their lives, and were able to devote themselves for the sake of America more than white Americans are doing, they could immediately jump above white Americans.

However, they don't understand this principle. It would mean that even if America were to perish someday, the Native American Indians would be preserved. Black Americans and Native American Indians claim that white Americans are doing only evil and should be banished. But instead of criticizing, they should simply devote themselves more for the sake of America, and then they would naturally prevail.

Reverend Moon, the author of the Divine Principle, brought members to America from the former enemy nations of America and had them serve this country. They have endured persecution for the sake of the salvation of America. Because they followed Reverend Moon and came to America and devoted themselves for the sake of this nation, in the future they will be the ones to inherit the tradition and sovereignty of America.

Since coming to America, Reverend Moon has been the leading force to unite all the various ideologies, in particular, the various denominations of Christianity. Reverend Moon created The Washington Times, Unification Theological Seminary, and the University of Bridgeport in order to lead the media and academic fields.

By doing so, Reverend Moon has truly devoted so much for the sake of saving America. Now all intelligent Americans and leader have naturally followed and respect him. Eventually, the entire nation will be turned around through this. 


New Heavenly Family Tradition

We must understand that those who shed their tears and blood for the sake of the public purpose will become the mainstream of human history. They will become the central people and central nation. This is the path of truth. The reason why Reverend Moon could prevail in spite of six different imprisonments in his life, is because he has strictly followed the path of the true providence.

He doesn't concern himself with whatever persecution comes because he has been busy with the providence. The solving of the problems of unification of North and South America, how to bring about equalization among all of the nations in terms of technology and wealth--all of these concerns have been carried by Reverend Moon throughout his life. Therefore he is always in haste along this path of providential truth.

Only based upon the foundation of those couples and families who are able to devote themselves for the sake of God following the teaching of Reverend Moon, and becoming model couples who inherit heavenly tradition, can we expect the birth of a new heavenly art and literature.

As the children of such couples are born, generation after generation, the new heavenly world will emerge. The American husbands who go to Africa may encounter millions of different kinds of husbands there. However, they should be able to create and demonstrate what the standard of the new American husband should be.

If such American husbands demonstrate their devotion and true love to their African wives, they will become the king of all other husbands. Once Americans establish such a foundation, America will never perish.

If you shed more tears and sweat for the sake of America, then your tradition, your tears, will set the standard to lead and cover the entire world in the future. We have to draw a formula from this topic. Those people who live for the sake of themselves will become more evil. Those people who live for the sake of others will become even more good.

If America tries to become the most powerful nation for its own sake, it will decline into an evil country. Whereas, if America is willing to sacrifice and devote herself for the entire world, even to the lowest level, then America will become the central nation of the world.


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This post was from the speech titled The Grand Clean Up Period in History of Good and Evil 1996 by Dr. Reverend Sun Myung Moon in Belvedere - Divine Principle Training Center