The October Hoondok Club…. a precious time of sharing with Dr. David S.C. Kim

[Background on the meeting…the Poughkeepsie Hoondok Club has been meeting on the first Sunday of the month since May, 2010.]

President Kim had prepared a folder of articles expressing Unification faith, which those gathered collectively read aloud. We also read from Rev. Moon’s autobiography.

Then “Grandpa” Kim gave his insights on news from the previous month, accented with spiritual guidance, and personal attention to those present.

DSCK: “If I have a good idea, pick it up. If you have a better idea, then try that one.”

He spoke of the heavenly archives in his home as the house of “heavenly junk.” [There are heaps and heaps of papers, hundreds of photographs, loads of newspaper clippings, UTS memorabilia, books on everything related to Divine Principle, Christian theology, and Christian psychology… Enough to keep a full time archivist busy for a few years. ] He is anticipating going to spirit world and does not want the heavenly treasure in his home to be lost. “If I am not there, who is going to manage it…..all this information.”

He read to us from Today’s World, and talked about the launch of the Won Mo boat in Las Vegas: ’The Korean ‘Won Mo’ is something like ‘round mother’… it is a boat of hope. Won… means circle… mo is mother… this is round love giving true love to humanity…. This is mother’s love. Women should become the leaders. Father is King of Kings, Prince of Peace, Son of God, Father of the world, 2nd coming of Christ, but besides this he is a great scientist and inventor. “ If people look at Father as a someone simply operating in the physical world, then they may think he is just an oriental nut. We need to look at him spiritually: he is using the boat, Las Vegas and Hoover Dam providences to fulfill something for God. People are still struggling with the reason for going to Las Vegas. This is the way Father goes to the dungeon of hell, Las Vegas. Like Jesus went to teach prostitutes and sinners, Father goes to Las Vegas. He donated money to help drug addicts.

The October 2011 Hoondok Club

Blessed Couples need to change. Blessed Families will become “kindergarten gods”.

[Dr. Kim was referencing the divinity of Jesus (John 14:9) and the divinity of True Parents; that Christians see God fully expressed in Jesus, and Unificationism has the concept of God being fully expressed in True Parents. Dr. Kim expanded this to explain that God seeks to be fully expressed in all of the Blessed Families… growing toward full expression, first as “kindergarten gods” and then “children gods” etc. ]

Their (Blessed Families) job is to care for the world. Father said on Aug 8, “You have to change, then tell a friend, a parent, a relative. You have to announce ‘I have changed.’” UTS graduates need to do this. Our responsibility is 3 generations. You have your own family and friends, change yourself then help them understand how you did it. All the information is upstairs in Kim’s House of Heavenly Junk, the heavenly archives. UTS graduates, their job is to care for the world, but also their mission is to help unite all the religions. This is a heavenly house, Kook Jin Moon lived here, and Hyo Jin Moon. Everything here is historic: the pictures, the books, the furniture.

The altar at the Poughkeepsie Hose

Now Father is talking about before the fall, the pre-fall. There is God of Day and God of Night. I myself do not completely understand, but Father is teaching us. Father has never said how to handle fallen nature. Original sin is gone away, but sinful scars are still there. We need charity, healing, small groups, helping each other to overcome the fallen nature. Intellectually, theologically, emotionally, we need to help each other.

He summarized:

Chanting in True Parents name has healing power.

When we invoke Father’s spirit, it can help heal us. (Mansei, mansei, og mansei)

You have to change and then you have to tell how you are changed. Westerners need logical explanation. If you are tuned into HDH, it is God’s word, otherwise the Kingdom of Heaven is not open.

From now on the “spiritual-scientific age” is coming, centering on Christianity.

Father has finished his job. I have finished my job here on the physical earth, but there is still work to do.

Grandpa Kim finished by speaking of the Hoondok Club… he started with UTS grads… that we need to continue the tradition, including the practical aspects of counseling: diet, mental and emotional

health, guidance about marital relationships, etc. In this way we can fulfill Father’s direction to practice HDH.

Patricia Graham (UTS’80) signs Poughkeepsie Hoondok Clubs’s picture of Tue Father.

The Hoondok Club then adjourned for the second stage of the meeting: Lunch at the Oriental Buffet. Actually, it was more a banquet than a lunch. Grandpa Kim did the seating arrangement: according to a heavenly etiquette. Over the meal we could share the uniqueness of each person gathered: this was, of course, enriched by the traditional “fortune cookies” which offered further insights into each others lives. Grandpa Kim ended the Hoondok Club meeting in prayer and thanks. We all came away inspired and grateful. Grandpa Kim! The old general who never fades away, but continues to march to a unique drum beat.