Siblings Unite Based on Parents' Love

In my childhood, I would often look at bird nests. Once I climbed a tree to look into a nest, and the mother bird started pecking at me. She was desperate and willing to die to protect her nest, and not only once.

When I brushed her aside, she flew away, and then came back. Seeing this, we cannot deny the powerful instinct of animals to transcend their own lives to protect their offspring. It is similar with human beings. You should be able to invest your li
fe for the sake of love. That is the way of a true person. 

Reverend Sun Myung Moon



Truly good people are those who have established love as their root.

They try to protect their loved ones even at the cost of their own lives.

This is where goodness originates.  This is something that will never change.

Father Moon speaks about the magnificence of parenthood seen even in nature:

"When I was in Danbury prison, I witnessed an interesting thing. A slope was being bulldozed into a tennis court.  However, when the rainy season came, work had to stop for a few weeks until the weather cleared up.

During the delay, a water bird built a nest only three meters away from the path the inmates used for their exercise. 

The water bird was not easily noticeable as her colors allowed her to blend into the background.

Therefore, while she was guarding her eggs, no one realized she was there, even through they repeatedly walked right by her.

When the water bird curled up, she looked just like a round black stone from the side, but when her eggs hatched and the baby birds started feeding, they were pretty noisy and gave away their location.

Several of the inmates tried to mess around with the water bird, but she proved very capable of protecting her young. 

When she returned with food, she never landed close to her nest, but chose different locations, then slowly crept over to her chicks.

Every day she approached from a different direction in order to protect her young. This is how she protected them. 

As her chicks grew larger, she would make lots of noise and peck any inmates who came too close. She was clearly warning them to stay away."



Who could have taught the water bird to be like this?  It is the power of the universe.

All things in creation are on a level plane centering on God's love as the axis.   Even though each may hold different positions on that plane, their level of love and care is the same.

Even a honey bee cannot be separated from the taste of nectar from a flower.  It will not let go, even if its abdomen is torn off.  True Love is like this.

True love is not based on gain that can be calculated.   You can cast away your life for it.  Being able to forsake and disregard one own's life is the path of true love.  Parents walk this path.

Parental heart willingly goes the way of death for the sake of love. 

When we look at the case of parents, if their children are in mortal danger, parents will willingly die in place of their child.  This is true love.

Imagine a man that can boasts about all the accomplishments he has throughout the world.  He is extremely wealthy through his own hard work, sweat and tears.

But if his child is suddenly faced with a life-and-death situation or he is told his child has terminal cancer, none of those things will matter anymore.

He would sacrifice his own life and all of his wealth and possessions to save his child's life.

Parental Love Is Eternal

Since parental love is so sacrificial, do you think there is a limit to the parents' love for their children?

Parents not only love their children during childhood, but their love will continue through the child's entire life and even into eternity.

If the parent and child are able to establish a relationship that brings increasing worth and value, then infinite stimulation, then something new will arise within that relationship.

The parent-child relationship is the greatest gift God gave to us.

The love of a mother or father is one of the greatest forms of love in the human world. 

Even people who are in the highest positions in society are vulnerable to the needs of their children.

Parental love is the mother of all kinds of love.

Love toward children is unconditional and unlimited.  Therefore, those who grow up without receiving parental love thirst for it most of all.

Even though an orphan may have a house to sleep in and food to eat, they will always lack and long for something in their heart.

They long for the love of a parent.  Most of you were raised by loving parents.

Whether the children are young or old, their parents always love them.

Even when their children are seventy years old, they will still look at him the way they used to when they raised him long before; this is the parental heart.

As the children grow, the parents' heart continues to draw even closer.

The sense of responsibility toward their children increases.  The heart to live for the sake of the children deepens even further.

You can see this when we see how parents relate to their children in society.

Parents go through many difficulties for the sake of their children, but do not feel the hardship. 

This is because they love their children. After giving their flesh and blood to their children, do parents keep a record?

No.  They are rather pained at not being able to give their children even more.  The same is for mothers, correct?

When women breastfeed your babies, if they are unable to feed well you feel worried.

Isn't it true as you raise your children that they take away your flesh and blood?  In a sense, aren't children the greatest of all thieves?

Yet, mothers still feel anxious when their babies do not feed properly .

Why is it that parents love their children so much?

It is because this is the law of love.

A mother's touch when her baby is feeding at her breast is centered on love.  Also, when she holds her baby, the mother experiences a beautiful calm atmosphere.

This is because heaven and earth entered a state of peace.

This is why no matter how much trouble babies can be, mothers still have room in their hearts to accept and even encourage such behavior.

In one sense, we can think of a baby while he is getting his proper nourishment sucks out his mother's flesh and blood.

Yet, there is no loving mother who would stop giving her children in this sense.  There is no limit to the love parents feel for their children.  

Through raising a baby, this allows multitudes of chances of discovery of new things.  For instance, a baby stimulates new hope for the mother and father.  At such times, there are also new realizations.  This bond is unchangeable.

Parental Love Sets the Standard for All Forms of Love

Parental love is the highest.

Those who were blessed to have been raised with true parental love become well-rounded people and understand the full dynamics of love.  Children will never forget their parents' love.

Therefore, the family is the school of love.  Therefore the full experience of parental love is impossible without parents.

We speak about the depth of parental love, but what should the love among children be like?

What should be used as the standard for loving?  Brothers and sisters should love each other just as their father and mother do.

We should learn about about brotherly and sisterly love from our parents.

They should be able to say to their parents, "Our mother and father are the greatest in the whole world.  They stand in the position of God."

When children witness their parents' unchanging hearts and see the love shared between their parents, they say, "Let us learn from this love and become united among ourselves as well."  This is an ideal family taking root.

When children grow up into adulthood, they will soon search for a partner with whom their mind and heart can be one.

This is only realized through marriage: when a man and woman thus totally respect each other and strive to establish the standard of love and heart.

You should have a family in which the mother and father can unite with God's heart and love.  Then the children take after their loving parents and also unite with God's heart and love.

This is the order of tradition of love: the elder brother, as a representative of the parents sacrifices himself and loves his younger siblings centering on the parents' love.  The position of elder brother brings with it the responsibility to suffer most among his siblings.

This is the same with the parents' position, who also suffer the most for the sake of the children.  If parents shed tears and sacrifice for the sake of their children, the children will naturally want to follow their parents.

When parents and children relate based on God as the center, then the children will express love to each other in many different ways.

The older child should love the younger sibling int he same way that the parents love him.

In a family that is united through such a love, the love within that family will continuously blossom.  Then it will become the love within a society and within a nation.

In this way the world becomes the world of love.

Why do you receive love from your parents?

It is because the father and mother's original motivation to rely on each other and love each other originates in you their child.

Therefore, when brothers and sisters love each other centering on that initial motivation, their love also will not change.

Similarly, when you think of your neighbor as if he was your own self, the right social environment will develop.

We must understand that the family is at the formation stage, society is at the growth stage and the nation is the completion stage.  You must go through each of these three stages.

All families then should be linked together.

Only then will love develop among the society and unity will be realized on the national level.  All of this stems from the love of a family.

Society is divided into many sectors.  Even though the company has one CEO at the head, how many heads of states does a country have?  It is just one, right?

One person is responsible.  In this way, there is a unified pattern that is established while the scale increases.  Becoming one, but also being divided into many parts is the essence of the four-position relationships within a family. (siblings, parents, spouse, centered on God)

Return for Tomorrow's Post: Having Family Brings Completeness

This post was rewritten and derived from the textbook, Cheon Seong Gyeong Book Four-True Family, Chapter Eight, Section 5-7

Protect Your Sexual Organs

In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.  For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body.

"Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh." This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.


Ephesians 5: 28-33


In all of creation what is the most precious entity?  Man and woman - human beings.  What is the most important part of the body?  The nose, the eyes, mouth, hands or the brain?

It is the sexual organ, because it is the main organ of love.  Everything in the universe can be recreated through the love organ.

All living things whether plant or animal multiply through sex.  The most precious family is one that lives united in love and realizes the value of their sexual organs as the sanctuary of life.  The sexual organ occupies the position of incredible value where blood lineage and all of history is connected.

In order for God's principle to create through male and female who share pure love, they must absolutely have only one love partner eternally.  There is absolutely one man for each woman and one woman for each man.

This is why God did not create two Adams and two Eves.  Unfortunately, in today's world, false love has degraded God's original idea.  Some children have many stepfathers and women have many children with different fathers.

This is why it is of the utmost importance to protect the sexual organs for marriage.  When men and women practice chastity, they are protecting the universe.  Disciplined love between man and woman is the foundation of the universe.

One should not give out their love to just anyone as if they are animals, love can only have one owner.  The word "true" in true love, does not allow the possibility of more than one partner.  There is only one love partner.

This is absolute law.

Not just anyone can say "true love." Only God can really love with true love, and only God absolutely owns true love. God's true life, God's true lineage, and God's true conscience emerge from true love. In this way, the most fundamental essence of God is true love.

To connect with true love, we must first relate with God. A child might say, "My mother and father don't fight and we live well," but that doesn't necessarily mean that this is a family of true love.

"A young man and woman may say, 'We are so much in love that we could die,' but that doesn't mean this love is true love. If God is not present, then it is not true love. True love always centers on God. To become God's son or daughter, we first need to connect with God's love, life and lineage."

What makes a person relate to true love?

One who has a lot of money or power automatically true love?

Surely one who has great knowledge, degrees or military strength.  These attributes do not guarantee one is welcomed in the world of true love.  We all want true love, but this high-quality love is only possible when we live for others.

Our lives are in service and sacrifice for our partner.

When we meet someone who has the kind of thinking, "Everyone including you should live for me."  Everyone will avoid this person, they are very unpleasant to be around.  This is Satan's thinking and his strategy.  Selfish individualism has covered the world like a brood blanket.  It is a tool to keep God's children in Hell.

By going in the opposite direction of destruction we should live for the sake of the whole in everything that we do.  When you live for others, serve others and sacrifice for another, everyone and everything will come and love you.

We are created as God’s children. As we grow in love, relating to brothers and sisters, becoming husbands and wives, giving birth and raising children, God is present each step of the way, harvesting true love.

As our Parent, God observes and guides us as we develop into mature human beings that can relate directly with Him.  God becomes the owner of love at each stage.  Because of this, we can say that in a sense, because God owns all love, human beings become more precious to God than He is to Himself.

Think deeply.

Without God interacting with humans He cannot experience love.  It is the same in nature.  Even though a lion is the most fierce in the animal world, without a lamb or antelope, though thought as lower than a lion, a lion cannot survive. This is Principle.

Isn't it beautiful when we think of the original creation God had planned for us?  He did not leave anything or anyone out as important in the world.  The movie "The Lion King" called it - or sung - the circle of life.  It is the same as when we attach thousands of times more value to the person we love than we do to our own self.

When we think in this way, we are on the pathway to Heaven.

The way God is: He invests Himself completely into those He loves and then forgets his investment only to investment more than 100 percent again.  This is how over thousands of years, even though God did not reciprocate all He gave, he could continue on the painful path toward restoration and invest Himself.

A wife who wants her husband to be a success, should think in this way.  She should invest herself 100 percent into her husband and then forget this investment.  Through investing and forgetting, she enable her husband to achieve his full potential in life.

If both partners continue to invest in one another and forget, then the level of that love becomes greater and is elevated.  Then they will ultimately find themselves connected to God.  This is how we have eternal life: By establishing a parent-child relationship with God.

Those who think that we can live in any way we want on earth and just believe in God or Jesus, how can they go to Heaven if they do not connect to God on earth first through a high standard of living?

"Everyone wants to go to Heaven, but those whose attitude is "Everyone should live for me," will not get there. True love begins with embracing and living for the sake of all God’s masterpieces of creation. The way we can reach Heaven is to live for all humankind and ultimately for God."

How can we indemnify the fall, the crucifixion of Jesus and the persecution directed against the family of the Lord of the Second Advent?

During our lifetime, we should go in the opposite direction of the world which lives for themselves and own individual purpose.  We do this by having at LEAST three experiences where we dedicate our lives fully to someone or a higher purpose.

We should not look for praise even if we pass through death and resurrection three times to sacrifice our lives for another.  This is how we meet God.

What if everyone you meet lived in this way?  This would be called the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth.  This is the path that the Messiah is teaching through the Completed Testament, The Divine Principle, and the world of peace he is building.

Does this seem like a simple task - Kingdom Building?

Children are the fruit of a man and woman's love, life and lineage.  Children do not fully understand their origin and say that everything is theirs.  They do not regard that their parents are the root and the trunk and the origin of everything that they say is theirs.

Without our parents we are orphans or would not be born at all.  If we break the ladder of love that connects us to our parents, then we cannot live.

Even into adulthood, we find ourselves in some manner still wanting to have approval of our parents.  We still care and love them no matter how old or faraway we have become.

"We are the sons and daughters of God, the parent who is the origin of true love. Parents are the highest masters of love for children. The parent-child relationship is vertical and the husband-wife relationship is horizontal."

The four-position relationship or foundation a family creates between husband and wife, siblings, parent and child and God form a sphere freely circulating in love around the center.
All love is united and this is why all beings are brought about in love and the universe as a whole.  This love achieves a peaceful dynamic harmony around the central point of this sphere of love relationships.

God resides in this center.

The vertical parent-child relationship between God and His children is at the center with he man's love life and lineage on the right hand side and the love, life and lineage of the woman on the left side.

The love of siblings occupy the front and back of the sphere.  Centering on this relationship of a family, the entire universe achieves balance.  When we picture this interaction three dimensionally  we see that God is the ultimate origin of love, life, lineage and conscience.

This God-centered family sphere is untied as one.  This family will multiply throughout the ages as tribe, society, nation, world and cosmos of love.  Through all of these relations, God is always the fundamental center.

Because our first family failed to connect completely to God, they did not realize the original ideal God had for His family.  Adam and Eve were to acquire God's direct blood lineage and become True Parents.

Instead, they became false parents.  As a model of God's true husband and wife, all of mankind would have also become True Parents and True Children.  Throughout history, God has labored to restore the lost True Parents who can establish a pattern for the world to follow.

Jesus was to become a True Parent and be the model of not just a brother but a true husband.  This has been God's process throughout history to bring salvation through restoration.  This is the explanation why Jesus he would return in our time.

Adam and Eve were not able to fully become the parents God had envisioned at the time of creation.  When Adam and Eve bore children, they would have overseen their children's marriage.  There would be no such thing as divorce in all of history.  In today's society, we should seriously see the shortfall of parental involvement in their children's marriages.

The Messiah, restored the True Parentship, formed the Unification Church and gives the marriage blessing to all the peoples of the world.  These marriages are inter-faith, interracial and intercultural - but these marriages transcends more than these differences.

"The True Parents reject evil love, evil life and evil lineage, but they do not cast out Cain, who murdered Abel. Everyone, including Cain, receives the same blessing."

In the ocean, there is a point during the changing of the tides when the forces of the outgoing and incoming tides are at equilibrium. There is a similar turning point in the Providence of Salvation (restoration through indemnity) in the balance between the forces of good and evil. By blessing good and evil people at the time of this turning point, Satan can be expelled completely.

The fall occurred because man made an error involving the wrong use of love and marriage.  Now the Lord of the Second Advent as the True Parent restores this error by marrying God's children in the proper order.  Through the clearing of the problem of the fallen parents, True Parents are destroying hell by giving the blessing of holy marriage to billions and tens of billions of ancestors in the spirit world.

When husbands and wives and families went to the spirit world, they were separated and went to the level of spirit world that correlated to the way they live on earth.  Now, Father and son in the spirit world can be united centered on the foundation of a God-centered family of true love formed by you and me who are their descendants that live on Earth.

This family foundation also connects the Eastern world and the Western world through the marriage blessing.

What does an ideal family look like.  We have spoken about this in the last few posts over the week, but what does a true family appear?

This type of family consists of husband and wife, brothers and sisters, parents and children who all desire to come together in true love.  This family is the beginning point of an eternal effort to include and enable all the people of the world to experience the full blessing God has been wanting to give humankind and feel love and joy.  This is the how we will begin to see Heaven on Earth and the Kingdom of Heaven in Heaven.

"I hope that in the coming millennium, the 360 million blessed families located around the world will become one with the True Parents, and lead a new family revolution centered on true love and a worldwide revolution of morality so that a world of eternal peace can be established on Earth and in Heaven."

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This text was derived and rewritten from: Everybody Wants True Love