Why Parents Love Their Children

Have you ever wondered what would have happened if Adam and Eve had never fallen?  They would have been able to get all of God's blessings.



by Rev. Sun Myung Moon




They would have been in a position for God to wish them blessing, instead they angered and hurt God beyond belief and curses and sins had entered the world of humanity ever since.

The love of God was the most valuable one among all of the blessings.  The next blessing is to inherit the right of  creation from God.

God felt great happiness after He created Adam and Eve.

God gave humanity the responsibility, the right of creation and a chance to be happy at their creations.  When a couple has children, they get the chance to experience the joy God experienced when He created Adam and Eve.

Why can't you help loving your children?  This is because we inherited this great work of creation from God.  Therefore, we feel the same happiness as God does and we inherit God's right of creation and God's love.

Since man is born because of love, they have the destination to live by love and go back to his father for love.

Since all men originated from the seed of love of their father, then man has to put forth his beautiful branches to the world and make a lot of relationships with others to harvest the seed of love.  This is the responsibility of man on this earth.

This seed of love contains every element of love for wife, parents, children and Heaven.

Man lives as the seed lives.

God gave man life to harvest such an outcome on earth.

Then, after fulfilling their responsibility, God will reap men.  Why is it that parents sacrificially love their children more than children love the parents?

This is because parents are in the vertical range of love to their children and they are vertically connected to each other.

Even animals naturally sacrifice their lives for the sake of their young so they can establish a vertical relationship of love.

Also, man must also build the vertical relationship of love even at the cost of their life. Their life is in the horizontal position.

A husband and wife are in a horizontal relationship with each other.
 

They are also required to love God more than they love their own parents.


Love is in the vertical position while the love of husband and wife is in the horizontal position.

When they keep loving each other, the they establish a horizontal relationship with each other.  In the same way, parents should love their children more than they love their partner.

Then this creates vertical love. Without doing so, it is impossible to make the vertical love.

It is said that Parents should love their children as they love God.  By centering on the parents and God, then the family, tribe, race, nation and world will be connected to the other.  This is the beginning of World Peace.

The word 'relationship' only makes sense when there is a a relative object and a subject make a mutual relationship with each other.

The subject and object partners need to have something in common or else they cannot make a relationship.
When you desire something, you want something better than what you already possess.  A subject and object both pursue something better together giving and receiving each other.

In giving and receiving, giving is more valuable than receiving. 

A subject and object give and receive for the greater purpose.

No one gives or receives something that causes damage.  Parents do not love their children based on getting some reward, but so they can love their children on a higher spiritual level in every way.

Parents love their children because they hope to reach a greater standard and goal of life.  Parents love their children with hopes that they will be needed by the people, the nation and the world and an even greater being.

They also hope their children become people they, the parents themselves can need.

Parents do not love their children just for their own sake, but for something greater.  This is parents' love toward their children.

Children are a reflection of their parents.

Sons and daughters are born in their parents' love, therefore, they are like one body with their parents.

Parents can't help but love their children because their children are a reflection of their parents themselves.  You life and your parents' life are mingled with love.

Return for Tomorrow's Post:  Children Represent Their Parents' Love

This speech is rewritten and derived from “Raising Children in God's Will”