Invest Your All

This is how God is: God invests everything into a being, and then that being experiences love. Then that explosive love will be returned back to the original Being who made all that investment. God created everything according to this principle.

Rev. Sun Myung Moon

During the process of creation, God gave His everything to man.  On the same accord, a man should want to give everything to a woman. In return, the woman will want to give everything back to the man, and then the man will give everything back to God.  

This is how everything is created.

When a husband and wife give and take in this lively way, then the two will come into complete unity and never separate.  This is the center of God's love.  That is the most ideal place the nucleus.  When a couple are truly in love and live in love, then God is living there, too.

This is the secret to being a true spouse the way God intended: Pour your love into your spouse and live for your spouse doing things for his/her sake day in and day out.  When he gets overly saturated in this love he may ask why you invest so much love into him and want to get away.

But if you continue to love him in this way despite his protests, he will turn around and return your love.  Love grows in this way.  This is the Principle of Creation.

What would be the true definition of a saint?

A saint is the one who goes ahead of other people in realizing, practicing and teaching this principle.  They have laid a foundation and expanded this realm of living for the sake of others.  This is all part of the law of creation.  

We must follow this course and we must love. We must emulate God's image and put all of our love into our families, into other people and into the nation.  

There is only one way for us to go: I, as an individual, must love my spouse and then bring all of society into oneness and later meet God. Then I will fall in love with God and jump into that love and live happily day by day.

When I really live for the sake of other people, the society, and the nation, love always comes back to me.  If we live in this way, this principle will go around and around and expand throughout the universe.

Anyone who is looking for love goes against the process of the law of creation.  You cannot find love.  You first invest yourself and pour your love into others.  Have you loved your spouse?  Love comes back to you as much as you have invested into the other.  When that happens, love starts coming back.

When Ownership Begins

This tradition of living for others and investing love first is being laid on earth for the first time.  The Messiah lives for this sake to leave this kind of tradition behind and lives consistently with the will of God.  He invests everything and spares nothing; he searches for ways to give out even more.  This is where true ownership begins.  After living in this manner, all things follow such a person.

Couples everyday tell each other that they love each other.

But that husband and wife may think they love each other, but once they disagree and the other gets offended, they start quarreling.  This is obviously not the true way and is not an example of love.

Love is when you want to put your whole life into the relationship until there is nothing left to put in.  Through this investment of self, love starts coming back.

The more we love, the more love and ownership will come to us. 

If spouses invested themselves for one another, is it possible for them to quarrel?

When this kind of life is practiced, we are guaranteed to be on the right path.  Even if we do not know where we are going, we are surely headed in the right direction.

How do you decide who is going to be the center of such a large family with many brothers, sisters, in-laws, uncles and aunts?  Just because one is the eldest, does this make them the center of that family?  What if they were truly mean to others and never practiced true love? 

The person who invests day in and day out the most into that family by giving everything he's got for the sake of the other family members without expecting anything in return is the center of the family.  This is how you predict who is going to be the center of the household and the true owner of everything.  

We naturally know that we are supposed to love the world, but this sentiment is too vague.  We must truly put our life into what we are doing just as God did for us.  This way, all things belong to us.  If you want to own everything with love then give, give all you have. This is our credo.

Don't say, "Where is love?".  Don't say, "My husband must love me", or "I expect love from my wife". If you do, peace and love can never be realized within your family. 

There is no love until we put our love in. 

Put in everything you have, then your investment will return as love towards you. How wonderful that is!

This is an amazing truth that can transform today's loveless society.  We should love in this way from the individual level all the way to the national level and we will see change.  Those searching for love, should put in everything they have and then they will see their investment returned as love.

If you want to be a true mother or father, you have to honestly ask yourself, how much have you loved your children in the righteous, heavenly way.

When a child is absolutely loved by their parents, they will never want to leave even if they are being scolded.

When you give out your love and everything comes back to you and wants to be owned by you, then you can truly live happily.  This is the ideal way of life.

God loves us, but we have to love God too. 

Since all things belong to God, if we love Him, wouldn't all things also belong to us? The only way to own anything in the universe is only through loving God.  This is when we become the true owner of things.

Your Own Mind Knows

Humanity should go this way.  How will we know that we have invested everything?  Your own mind will tell you before anything else whether you have given 100 percent or not.  Here on earth, people can cover their actions and intentions behind every deed, but in the spirit world you cannot pretend.  

Everything is in the open and will be revealed.  The ideal way to live is to daily live for the sake of others.  There is no other way to reach the ideal.  The amazing reality is that God even tries to love even Satan.

Do we have such a standard of living?

"Everyday I am so excited that I hate it when one day ends; I can't wait until the next day dawns. That kind of excitement is the ideal way. Unless and until we put everything we have into what we are doing, we cannot realize true joy. Just put in more and more every day without thinking what will be returned, then you will always have more and more -- never less. I have always followed this formula.

At the last moment you may feel you have done enough. Then insist on putting in one more bit of effort. That one step makes all the difference.

When love owns you, you can't oppose it.  You have to belong to somebody. 

How can you object to belonging to someone who truly loves you? Do you think I'm a happy person? Why do you think so? Because I know that in the future, even Satan, even the communists, will not be able to oppose me. How can they oppose me when I love them?"

Reverend Sun Myung Moon

What is the will of God? It is to fulfill the ideal of creation, which is to form a four-position foundation of the husband/wife/children centered on God and live for the sake of others. Then all the love ownership comes back to God.

The person who has done this will have lived the will of God. Such a couple will be an ideal family and live happily ever after. This is the nucleus through which the whole world can be connected. The world is an extension of such a family.
  

What is the ideal life?

The ideal life is putting everything you have into the ideal.  If we live this way, we can go anywhere and be welcomed and no country will oppose this way of life.  This is the will of God.  If we each live this ideal way of life, wouldn't the world turn into the ideal world?

The secular world has an opposing philosophy: I want to be loved.  

I will take whatever I can get.  This type of philosophy does not allow a world of unity and peace. God's formula is to live for other's sake.  If we live in this way, the world automatically comes into unity.
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We can say the world will automatically come into unity because God lives that way.  When we live in this way, our unity becomes broader and broader.  There is no other way for a unified world, no other secret besides this.

Now, we see the ideal world is at hand.

Do you think that the ideal world will come if you just sit back and wait for it to come thinking, "I'd like to sit in that kind of world and go to heaven when I die?".  This type of thinking is the same thinking of a thief.  A thief doesn't work and takes everything he has.

Because of the foundation of the Messiah you are able to participate in Gods heavenly world on earth.

Faith without works is dead.  Just sitting and believing that God will work is not enough.  He gave us 5% of 100% to fulfill our portion of responsibility.  It is our choice to do His will or not.  If we do not do enough before God, our conscience will not permit us to stand before God.

We should not be in the position to be ashamed of ourselves before God.  We should live always conscious of the fact that I should not live a life that I would be ashamed of.

The real situation is that every human needs salvation.

We are saved by dignity, not by shame. This way of life, we may not be able to eat what we like, say what we like, do the things we like so there is a possibility that we will not be ashamed of our actions.

How can we be complacent as our brothers and sisters at this very moment are losing their lives at the hands of Satan?  His ultimate goal is to destroy humanity and pull them as far away from God as possible.

You should not be just members or followers of the truth just borrowing the true way of thinking or life.  You must make it as your own and be proud of the concept and actually live this true way of life and become true descendants.  These are not just words, it is actions.

Do you understand clearly? Now we know how we will achieve salvation; how we can be saved with
dignity, without shame. 

We are all individual messiahs of love.   Plant love and you will never perish.

You may suffer in giving out your love, but you will never perish in this way of life and will never be ashamed.  By practicing true love, true love will come back to you with ownership.  This is a reality.  

Do you understand? Those who say, "Father, I understand deeply now and I will live the way of love," raise your hands as a pledge to do your best to fulfill this.".


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This post was taken and rewritten from a speech given by the Dr. Rev. Sun Myung Moon based on the Divine Principle teachings which are centered on the history of the Bible.

Three Stages of Judgement

"I humbly ask you to be the poor in spirit; I ask you to be the meek, and I ask you to become those who hunger and thirst for righteousness. Then we will all see the Kingdom of Heaven, and we shall all be satisfied. Now let us begin."

Christians, and Christianity itself, have a final hill to cross.


The Bible prophesize about the end of the world and that we must face judgement of fire on the great and terrible day of the Lord.  On this day, we are to see many great phenomena as the end comes near.  Jesus promised the people that he was to return at this time.

Since the day Jesus ascended into heaven, Christians have been watching for his return to earth.  To this day, Christians are becoming tired of waiting for this extraordinary event to occur.  Some have decided that this even will not happen literally as they wait for this event to possibly clear away all the problems in the world automatically.  They came to think, "This is just one of God's methods to keep us alert and faithful."

Other religions also have predicted their own version of the end of the world.  Yet, no one can clearly define what this end of the world is going to be.  Each makes their own determination based on the denomination and religion they practiced.  There should be a universal understanding of this time when the Lord will reappear and bring his fire of judgement upon the earth.


God never created this world with the intentions to destroy it for any reason, but intended for the world of goodness to last forever.  How can we profess God is an almighty God, but then say this God will bring down a judgement upon his own children and destroy those who do not follow him and the earth He created?    He definitely did not create it to be weak enough to be destroyed by an archangel.

What is meant by 'the end of the world' in the bible is the end of the evil, satanic soverenignity which satan began.  God intended for a world of goodness to be established and remain forever, not evil.  His children became creatures of evil.  This is


Beginning of Judgement by Fire

Adam and Eve fell in the garden of Eden. They were not at that time in a position to have a full understanding of the will of God. 

In the beginning, God created everything and after creating woman, He said it was good.  Sin did not exist at this time.

God had instructed Adam and Eve to not eat of the fruit, which symbolized the sexual organs.  The WORD has been referred to many times in the Bible as fire.  This is the fire, the word, which Jesus is to bring upon his return in our time. The judgement of fire is God's word.  Adam and Eve were confronted with two opposite words.

The first was from God.  Obedience to God's word would have brought about a good world based on Adam and Eve's good family connected directly to God's lineage without any trace of sin.The other was from Lucifer who told them to eat so their eyes will be open and they could become their own god which brought about the fallen evil world.  When Adam and Eve were confused, they made the wrong choice.   God's good world ended at that moment they connected their sexual organs without God's consent.

Our first parents sowed seeds of evil.  Adam and Eve were to grow into maturity and then be blessed directly by marriage to God, yet satan stole them before their maturity and made an evil harvest.

We must become very clear about this so we ourselves will not repeat the fall in our own lives and return in the right direction.

The last days, the sheep and the goat will be separated.  The difference between these two animals are clear.  The sheep recognize they have a master and follow while the goat do not follow the shepherd.

Today the world is divided into two major camps: the democratic world which says, "There is a God' and the communist world which says "God does not exist".  In this time there is open immorality where unchaste love runs rampant.  Satan uses love as a weapon.

One must be equipped with a greater, more righteous love in order to conquer Satan.

Satan is always trying to trick people with cheap love. But heavenly love is beautiful and constructive in its sacrificial giving. Satan's love is unreliable and will last only a short time, but heavenly love is eternally unchanging.


Father Moon main core teaching is on how the misuse of love brought about this evil world.  He speaks deeply about it:

"America is facing the last days right now and we can see two extremes of love in this country: the carnal, dirty love of free sex and the deep rooted, heavenly love now being proclaimed by righteous people. Secular love and heavenly love are confronting each other here in America. As the scope of satanic love becomes greater there will be more destruction. Families will break up; people will become corrupted; life will become
miserable, and more people will commit suicide. But as heavenly love expands, our lives become richer.

There is a line of judgement separating these two worlds of love, and you must stand on either one side or the other. You can not be in both.

The last days is the time for dividing good and evil, which are becoming steadily more confused. Even the most faithful believer in Jesus or the most righteous church on earth cannot proclaim proudly that they are absolutely separated from Satan and sin and that they are following Jesus exactly as he would have them do.

No one can say they are living in perfect love in an ideal world with no suffering and tears. No church and no Christian could say such a thing.

This means that Satan exists within the churches as everywhere else; also, there is sin there as in the rest of the world. If this is true and if what church people love and hate is no different from what the rest of the world loves and hates, then there is very little difference between the world and the church. Which would Satan find more pleasure in the church or the world?

Satan likes the sins of the church more, because based upon them he can protest to God, "Look at those people in the church -- they don't love others; they even hate others! They are not faithful, either. This must be my church."

If the churches remain this way, they will decline into nothing at the time of the last days, along with the evil, secular world. This is the way of God; He will judge such churches before the judgement of the rest of society.

What really surprised me when I first came to America was the way Americans used the names of Jesus Christ and God as an exclamation -- not to praise them, but to put them in the worst position. I wondered what people meant when they said, "Jesus Christ!" and I realized that they were describing something bad.

What led to this kind of custom? What do the best words imaginable have to do with the worst things that can happen to people?

Have you sometimes observed that certain Christians may be worse than people of the secular world? Those who claim they believe in God may actually be worse than those who don't -- they are more egotistical, less loving and giving, etc.

The American nation is founded upon Judeo-Christian principles, yet Americans have become very individualistic. Was Jesus an individualistic person?

How did Americans come to be so egotistical and individualistic when Jesus had nothing of a self-centered nature? We can come to the simple conclusion that if people really believed in Jesus they would not have become like that.

Instead of believing in Jesus for Jesus' sake and for God's sake, some people believe in him for their own benefit. In other words, they use Jesus and God for their own sake. What do you think about this?"



Then, what does the end of the world mean? 

"Just what is going to end? Evil is going to end. God will put an end to all evil. Out of God's new beginning will come a new opportunity for the human race. And the goodness God intended in His original ideal can be made real.

What will Jesus do when he comes? Will he come to wipe out the world?

The word "judgement" is frequently misunderstood to mean that God will wipe out everything in anger. Wrong.  That is not the purpose of the Messiah's coming. The whole purpose is to fulfill the ideal that was left undone in the garden of Eden, to work for individual, family, social, national and world perfection. Judgement is the constructive work of God to see the fulfillment of the Kingdom of God here on earth.

In the garden of Eden Adam and Eve fell into evil instead of developing their goodness. They was subjugated by Satan and became the children of sin.

Therefore the Bible says, "You are of your father the devil". John 8:44

If the fall had not occurred, then the true ruler would be God. But He is not today the King of this universe, because Satan is sitting upon God's throne. God has to remove all results of the human fall before He can truly reign over the world.

Now, the end of the world is the moment in history when God ends this history of evil and begins His new age. It is the crossroads of the old history of evil and the new history of good."SMM


Three Stages of Judgement

In the Principle, there are three stages of judgment: judgment of the truth, judgment of character, and judgment of heart, because the fall violated these three things.

To teach this way of restoring the world back to its original position we must first teach ourselves.  The parents should first practice and then teach first.  We should be teachers of the Principle and not be caught BY the Principle.  We must become the embodiment of the Principle teaching.

When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your own pleasures.

You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God?  

Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us?  

But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:

“God opposes the proud
    but shows favor to the humble.”

 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil,and he will flee from you.Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.  Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom.  Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.

James 4:3-10


In order to  go through the restoration process of going fully back to God, we each must have a face-to-face battle with satan.  If we do not make a condition of indemnity to pay back the wrongs of the past, the satan will pull and say, "it is mine".  We must establish a foundation of faith and put His words into action in order to go back to God.

Because we were born with Satan's blood, we must take out our blood and throw it away. 

Religion teaches us to fast, to hit the body, do whatever it takes to bring the body into submission. and conquer it.  Satan uses the body to do his evil while God dwells in our mind.  Jesus' body was hit for our in.  Yet, he has returned to bring the word to bring humanity to complete salvation of the body, not just the spirit.

Then what did Jesus leave for us? He gave us his blood and flesh. You must become the person who represents Jesus.

In the past, when the followers of Jesus were praying to meet Jesus, they had to make effort for at least seven years, day and night.

Without doing that, they couldn't meet Jesus. However, in these days if you make effort for seven days, you can meet the Teacher. No matter what the problem may be, if you make effort for seven days with fasting,

The road that we walk based on the teachings of the Completed Testament, we must understand how har of a road, how much blood was shed to bring this truth to the earth.  Jesus had the knowledge o f the Completed Testament, but because his disciples could not understand the time of their visitation and could not understand the teachings of Jesus, he had to return to give it to the people of our time.

We must ultimately follow God through this course of indemnity, but not centered on ourselves.  We should raise our standard by doing fasting, prayer and conditions to separate us from the temptations of satan.

Among you, those who have finished 7-day fast, raise your hands. To those who did not experience one week fasting, you do not know the feeling on the seventh day, thirty minutes before midnight.

By experiencing a fasting condition, one can become connected closer to God and experience part of his suffering on the road to bring restoration to the world.  If we truly want to believe in the cross, we must substantially walk the road of the cross and  turn God's will and words into their daily actions.

Those who do not know the heart of God must stand as the incarnation of God.




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This post was rewritten and derived from the Judgement by Words and also from the Textbook Blessing and Ideal Family section "The Indemnity Condition for Receiving the Blessing"

Don't Look For Love, Give It

God is our Parent. Then why did He create us? God’s creation of humankind started from the place participating  in love. Humans started from God’s mind, growing up in God’s bosom of love, becoming mature in
God’s bosom, and making the family which can connect with the love of the world. Through that, they come to return to God’s bosom.

—Sun Myung Moon


You don't have to look for love ever, there is already an abundance all around you.  God has given us love directly on the physical plane where no human should ever be alone, ever.  If you were to look at nature itself, you should never be without love even glancing at a tree or a leaf for it itself is looking for love from humans. 

This is how God created all of creation, for the love of humans.  Then to look at the people all around you that you encounter everyday, you may not like any of them, but there is an wealth of love in even the most evil person waiting to be awakened.

Have your ever thought that a baby is not born knowing automatically how to love others?  Just like a baby has to learn to walk, True Love must also be learned.  Each person must cultivate his or her capacity to love truly.

How?  What environment lets love grow and flourish?  How does one practice the true way of love while on the earth.  Is it performed through just being nice or acts of kindness?  Is there a blueprint we can all follow that helps us lead a true life of love in which all men seek

There is one easy step for all of us to learn how to love.

In order to get love, we must give it, time and time again and forget that we had even given...then give again.  This is the 'secret' which all the saints, great leaders and those who sacrificed throughout the centuries used to help change the world one footstep at a time.

Jesus was the ultimate person who exhibited true love and sacrificed his life for those in his time and generations thereafter even though those in his time did not know the quality of the person they were persecuting.

Fortunately, many sources suggest that the cultivation of true love over a lifetime may be broken down into three essential pursuits:

1. Attain individual maturity
2. Through experiencing family and close relationships
3   Contribute to the world

These three pursuits are the fertile ground to cultivate true love.  They serve as direction, give purpose and are a framework for a life lived for the sake of others -  a life rich in true love.  One's life does not diminish when they sacrifice to love and live for others, rather they obtain a unique higher quality and gain more while giving of themselves.


God's Three Great Blessings

The Three Great Blessings  are gifts granted by the Creator for the fulfillment of human life.

Reverend Moon notes their Biblical derivation from the three orders given to Adam at the beginning of the world and again to Noah, when God had hopes of beginning the world anew: “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth” (Gen. 1.28 KJV).

Just like the earth, the Blessings Adam and Eve were to receive once they had establish unity with God are to be founded forever.  Billions of generations later were to acquire these gifts.  These Blessings are the universal and enduring pattern for human life and are the means by which we all become true humans who can relate directly to God.

These Blessings is what separates man from the animal and other kingdoms.  They endow us with the potential for a lordship of love.

The Three Great Blessings may be summarized in the following way: The first, “Be fruitful,” may be interpreted as the exhortation to achieve mature character, to become a well-integrated, Godly person capable of loving others. Just as an immature tree cannot bear fruit, so an immature person cannot bear the “fruits” of a loving spirit: “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control” (Galatians 5.22-23).

When God gave the second blessing to multiply, it meant to create a warm united marriage and family and to multiply His Godly lineage.  The third blessing was to "replenish and subdue" the earth and to "have dominion over it".

This does not mean to destroy the earth as a master, but to care for the creation God labored to invested for His children.  This last blessing gives you and me the responsibility to create a prosperous world where all humanity and the creation do not suffer, but flourish in a reciprocal relationship.

First Blessing: Mature Character

True love requires a good and mature character as its foundation. 

Although love is often thought of merely as a warm, pleasurable, sweet feeling that arises spontaneously, it is easily seen that various loves depend upon character. Well-developed character enables love; poorly developed character disables it.

For instance, for one to be a patriot with a love for country, one is required to have the virtue of self-sacrifice when their nation calls.  Love of  a friend requires one to be selfless and have consideration of others.

Love of a child requires one to devote themselves and be consistent over a long period of time.  Love of a brother or sister requires one to be caring, supportive, dependable and have honesty as their basic quality.  These love all call for the virtues of a good character.

Romantic love is one of the most confusing loves of all.  It would be rare if a woman thought her man loved her if he was always sitting on the couch watching television or playing video games.  If he refused to pick her up from the train station and told her to get a cab instead, she think he did not love her.

It would be hard for an elderly couple to have stayed together for 50 years without some admiration or appreciation for each other's internal qualities. Especially to have patience and understanding of the other's fault and still love.  In this day in age when beauty, youth and sexual attraction are highly rated for a couple, when these qualities fade with time, character continues to shine.

"Love flounders without the underpinnings of character strengths or virtues."

Author Don DeMarco said:

Love would be impotent if it were not for the various virtues that withstand attendant difficulties and deliver their message of love where love is needed .

"What would the world be like with a soldier who did not possess courage, a doctor without care, a teacher without patience, a parent without prudence, a spouse without fidelity, a priest without faith, a leader without determination, a magistrate without integrity and a friend without loyalty are all partners to futility, not because they lack love, but because they lack the virtue to express it."

Love and a person's character are connected.  A relationship benefits more with people of mature character supplemented with a moral identity and who contribute to the world than those who are immature, selfish and are conflicted within.

The person who lacks a mature character spends many hours of dissatisfaction\ and inner struggle. The person’s relationship with him- or herself is a disharmonious and uncomfortable one, often leading to strife in relationships with others.

An immature person is mostly dissatisfied in every situation and is always in conflict with relationships with others and with themselves.  They live a disharmonious life and are always uncomfortable and make other's life just as uneasy to live.

"Mature character is a prerequisite for joy and peace. Only those of mature and virtuous characters are able to enjoy and share fully the fruits of true love."

Reverend Moon said, “It is when the divine soul or mind becomes the master of the human body that a person’s love can become God-centered. It is as if God’s mind were coming to dwell within that person.”

Reverend Moon calls this state of character maturity “mind and body unity.” Such integrity is the ultimate requirement for true love to flow.

Second Blessing: Multiply Love

The second blessing to multiply sometimes is only noted to have more children.

There is more than just extending the lineage through marriage and children.  It means to embody one's love and on an internal level multiply to others the love that one has cultivated in their life.  To one's horizon of love unselfishly.  A world based on the culture of heart is heaven on earth.

The way to spread one's mature love is through marriage.  Marriage provides one to have a primary person in which to share the fruits of their love, one who is different emotionally, physically and spiritually yet can be their counterpart in love.

Reverend Moon claims that love cannot be complete without a member of the opposite sex. He says:

"You men here are wonderful, proud people, yet . . . in reality your love cannot be seen or proven until you meet a woman. A woman is the one who will awaken your love.  You can insist that you have love and try to prove it, but no one will see that love until the day it is sparked by a woman."

When a couple decides to marry, this pure love will inspire the couple to have children and care for them expanding their parameters of love to embrace yet more 'others'.  When one establishes loving relationships between their family members, they are growing closer to God through living for the sake of others beginning with their family.

As Jack Kornfield, a student and teacher of Buddhism said:

“The sacrifices of a family are like those of any demanding monastery, offering exactly the same training in renunciation, patience, steadiness, and generosity.”

A good family life is the first place where one cultivates the capacity for warmth, care and commitment.  Every human thrives on the joy which is inherent in loving relationships of every kind. The warm concern of a mother's love, the friendship of siblings and the sexual intimacy shared between a couple in marriage.

To learn how to love others in a true way, they must first learn through the loving interaction of family members first.

This is labeled the four realms of heart within the four aspects of the family: child's realm of heart for the parents, sibling's realm, spouses realm and the parents' realm of heart for the children.

These four realms of heart is the basis which affect a person's future relationships with others outside the context of the family. This is how one multiplies the level of the first love found in within the family to the others in society.


The Third Blessing: Prosperous World 

The desires to make a contribution to society and to appreciate and care for the natural world are outgrowths of humankind’s endowment of the Third Great Blessing to make a prosperous world.

Using Biblical language, the third blessing is to have dominion and authority over another.  In the true sense, this blessing is to exercise a caring leadership over the creation which is yet another way to give love to others.

Nature is the 'other' to be loved in this blessing so that future generations will benefit from the earth's precious resources.

The author of the Divine Principle and speeches which this blog is based upon, urges people to think of future generations in their everyday use of water, disposables, and money. Conservation, he says, is a way of loving others who are not yet born

In return of humanity nurturing the earth, it nurtures us.

"Martin Luther King once said that due to the inventions, innovations, sacrifices, and genius of people the world over, we are indebted to many:

Whether we realize it or not, each of us is eternally ‘in the red.  We are everlasting debtors to known and unknown men and women . . . When we arise in the morning, we go into the bathroom where we reach for a sponge which is provided for us by a Pacific islander.

We reach for soap that is created for us by a Frenchman. The towel is provided by a Turk. Then at the table we drink coffee which is provided for us by a South American, or tea by a Chinese, or cocoa by a West African. Before we leave for our jobs we are beholden to more than half the world.

Feeling grateful and responsible to the world makes us consider the best use of precious resources, ways to more equally distribute wealth, food, and health care, and ways in which to bring our unique gifts to bear on the world’s problems.

These are God’s concerns, for, as Jesus said, when we do not feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit the sick and imprisoned, we are ignoring him.

The third key purpose brings us closer to a kingdom that includes all that lives and which returns the gifts and talents human beings have been endowed with to benefit the world as a whole."


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This text was rewritten and derived from the Textbook: True Love, Chapter "Love and Life's Purposes".