What would make a man more handsome or a woman more beautiful?
I have imagined making the two eyes totally round, the nose square, the ears upside down, and wondered whether that would make a person more beautiful. But every time I come to the conclusion that no one can improve upon the way God made men and women.
Reverend Sun Myung Moon
Truly each one of you is a masterpiece of God's creation.
Some men and women look in the mirror and wonder why they couldn't have been more pretty or created handsome. But we shouldn't look that way. You are God's masterpiece. We should know that God worked very hard to make you just the way you are.
Even if everyone has condemned a certain person as ugly, there is surely an special characteristic that nobody else has.
When you think about it, God only has four basic objects for which to work. He has the eyes, nose, mouth and ears. On top of that, He has to place them in the same area, so there is a limited realm, yet God created an infinite variety of faces!
With only a limited number of items, God created billions of human faces, but no two of them are identical. Each of our faces are unique.
There is an incredible mysterious beauty among the four billion people out there.
Even though each face has the same four components, each is different.
Is there any better miracle than the God's construction of the human anatomy?
What if someone gave you the task to take the eyes, nose, mouth and ears and come up with a combination for four different billion faces? Would you be able to do it?
Just thinking of the four billions faces leaves a feeling of awe. The mystery of the face is so great.
Each face is different, although it has the same four components.
There is no way to avoid feeling gratitude and awe, surprise and shock at this fact. I always feel that it is our duty to live with confidence and pride in being a masterpiece of God's creation.
What if the world was only filled with women lacking even one male.
It would be a 'no-man's land'. No matter how beautiful or how well-dressed a woman might be in that land, without men around, she has no flavor or joy in her living.
There is an guarantee that if there were no men around, no matter how much you were pressured, you wouldn't put on make up because there would be no incentive.
There is a popular saying that women dress nicely and put on make up for other women. But if women is all that existed, there would be no need.
It would be a 'no-man's land'. No matter how beautiful or how well-dressed a woman might be in that land, without men around, she has no flavor or joy in her living.
There is an guarantee that if there were no men around, no matter how much you were pressured, you wouldn't put on make up because there would be no incentive.
There is a popular saying that women dress nicely and put on make up for other women. But if women is all that existed, there would be no need.
There would be a great disaster if the world was filled with only women and no man.
Or even worse, there were a billion women and only one man. The women would definitely start a war over him. There would be nothing, but constant struggle, battles, and conspiracies all focused upon the one goal to occupy the heart of this one man.
Women naturally do not like war, but if there was only one man, would the women just sit still or start a war over who is best suited for him? On the other hand, if it was all men in the world and just one women the same situation would happen.
It is our good fortune that God distributed men and women evenly throughout the world.
There is a misinformed belief that there is a shortage of men, but as there are constantly men dying and being born all over the world, the numbers do even out. There are enough men for the women and enough women for the men on the earth as a whole.
What if one entire country was populated only by men and another only by women?
Through Eastern philosophy, which is male-centered, the Asian culture looks forward to have a baby boy.
Even in China with the restrictions on how many children one can have per household, baby girls are either discarded or given to other countries for adoption. What if God was to answer everyone's prayers and give them nothing but sons?
Even in America, the women would want a son first and also American men want sons. But what if God answered all those prayers around the world? What would happen?
A wise man knows that this is a useless prayer. Women give birth, but God controls the balance. Around the world , the population of men and women is about the same. This is a great phenomenon.
It is the greatest of all miracles that we are alive today.
Life is mysterious and the mysterious element is beyond man's control; somebody else must be controlling it.
Those who possess high goals and high ideals look for some mystic or mysterious element.
People look for and want miracles to happen. But the greatest miracle of all is the seven billion people who are living on the earth. When you look at a person, look at him individually as a source of wonder. You are an eyewitness to God's creation, a miracle.
Everyone of you are born with a broadcasting station which is your brain.
You are emitting waves at all times. But these color of waves vary from one person to another. The harmony comes from the variety of different waves coming from each of us. They don't repel each other, but rather create a universal harmony with one another.
The colors of our vibrations are not narrow. They go around the whole world and try to embrace all the other colors of vibrations around the world and everything God created. This vibration will visit the Orient, a white and go after a black person and embrace them as well.
But throughout history, man has blocked and chopped off this harmonious vibration. This separation has been the greatest of all human crimes.
You emit waves all the time, but the colors of waves vary from one person to another. The variety of these waves makes for harmony; they don't repel each other but rather create a universal harmony.
Religious people accuse each other of being heretics and much more. Nationalism is another example. There is a Japanese way of life, a German way of life and a Korean way of life without flexibility.
People are boxing themselves in, blocking themselves off from infinite possibility.
Is this the kind of history that God wanted to witness?
He wants to see a history where there are endless amounts of possibilities in which each vibration goes out and encircles the world and embraces everybody. This is the way God created His history, but man blocked this beautiful history.
We must search and discover a kind of people that lives in true freedom and true vibrations.
Where in the world today can we find people whose vibrations are not just in the physical world, but also int he spiritual world? What teachings could fathom how to break down these man-made barriers?
True Father gives his speeches to a room full of Westerners, and Easterners shining out in all different colors and vibrations. This man from the Orient gives out his vibrations which encompasses the Western world, the Western mind and the Western people.
What organization outside of religion has a history such as this phenomenon? Even in the field of religion this has not occurred very often.
Everybody has heard about major newspapers collapsing, for example the Washington Star and the Philadelphia Bulletin. Every day we hear that the Daily News, the greatest tabloid paper in New York City, is dying. Then people hear that Reverend Moon is trying to create a new newspaper in the face of all these newspaper failures.
The companies that collapsed focused strictly with a business-minded enterprise with concerns about the destiny of the company and the fortunes of the members that helped build it. These companies with this self-centered ideal have no way to link their purpose to the nation or to the world.
Therefore, with this as a foundation, no matter how big the company becomes they can only grow within the realm of the individual enterprise and only have company success. Their business philosophy is that when their enterprise or fortunes are damaged they will soon fold.
An universal mind has a far different starting point for a business.
We are not beginning a new newspaper for any person's or any organization's glory. We are doing this for the purpose of God, the purpose of the nation and the purpose of the world. Therefore, hard work and sacrifice can be made in order to achieve the higher goal.
Today the Western world has their focus based on materialism such as Communist nations.
That world has now hit a stone wall. Western civilization has filed for bankruptcy. In order to stop this, a new philosophy and civilization must begin and carry on. We are standing at that crossroad in Western history.
People are facing all kinds of bankruptcy, even moral bankruptcy, business bankruptcy, and family bankruptcy. But the Unification Church has a new goal and a new motivation.
The movement knows that the world needs help and must turn around and reverse its direction.
We are moving forward no matter the difficulties or obstacles that try to stop us. We bring salvation to the rest of the world. This is our standard.
We impart one vibration to encompass this nation and other nations around the world in order to bring about a positive change and head toward a world God envisioned from the beginning of creation.
We must be proud and confident of our position in relation to restoration and our standard.
Return for Tomorrow's Post: Does God Exist?
This post was rewritten and derived from the speech The Vibration of True Love
