Everywhere we go, every step we take, like air, we breathe Father's love and heart

Though it seems like yesterday, five years have passed since True Father went to the spirit world. Nowhere in the universe did True Father not touch or not shed blood and tears. Everywhere we go, every step we take, like air, we breathe Father’s love and heart. We remember how he led the providence until his last breath, day and night severely straining his physical self for Heavenly Parent’s dream of world peace and humankind’s salvation.

To leave Father as the object of glory, for three years, True Mother, as the True Mother of all humankind, offered devotional mourning, which all humankind should have offered. Mother bestowed on us the heart of filial piety, hyo jeong, which True Parents established toward God. They entreated us to become the light of hyo jeong for the world.

As I have attended True Parents for my entire life, I feel the truth is that True Father and True Mother live in complete attendance to Heavenly Parent. That is why today, though I am lacking, I wish to speak to our respected Cheon Il Guk leaders about attendance. This is because Cheon Il Guk, ultimately, is a large, universal family where we can comfortably attend Heavenly Parent and True Parents.

What is attendance? I have had the honor of attending True Parents during my life and am attending them now too. Providentially, I have stayed by their side longer than anyone else has and I have lived a life of attendance.

However if I were to honestly confess, there is still much about attendance that I do not know. This is because attendance is not about the offeror but about the person receiving attendance. For example, in a family if we are offering attendance to our parents, even if we think we have attended them well, if the parents are uncomfortable, we have not done so. On that point, the origin and base of our faith is attending True Parents.

To me this is a constant, continual state of tension. In a life of attendance, in attending True Parents, there is no end; it is continuous. Even at this moment, as I speak, I think all our senses are aimed toward True Parents, True Mother. To me, attendance is making True Parents comfortable. That principle has not changed from when I first attended True Parents at New York’s East Garden to this day. That principle is engraved in me. However, it is from True Parents that I learned everything about the attitude and motivation of attendance.

After I received the blessing and gave birth to my son, even before I had completely recovered, I followed True Parents to Korea. When my newborn baby was only thirty-eight days old, I left him in my husband’s

care. Pushing down my aching heart, I followed True Parents. When my parents-in-law passed away, I could not even go to their Seonghwa ceremonies and was not even able, properly, to shed a tear. I could live this life of attendance because of the tradition of attendance set by True Parents toward Heavenly Parent. This was the tradition of hyo jeong, which I learned. With the goal of liberating Heavenly Parent, the true parent of the universe and of finding the lost parental position, to save blind, ignorant humankind, who were stumbling around the realm of death and return them to Heavenly Parents’ embrace, for this ideal, and to lead humankind, who had fallen into the state of lost orphans and needed the path of salvation, True Parents overcame unimaginable trials. We know of this life of sacrifice and true love from having seen it.

Many difficulties arise when taking the path to the settlement of Cheon Il Guk. Even greater difficulties may come. However, even if we come across these difficulties, our center and the root of our lives are the True Parents.

I hope that you can all become people who have conviction in True Parents and their providence, especially while True Mother is on earth and can administer the providence directly. Even now, True Mother is pushing her body to its limits and not sleeping through the night. I hope that if we are true children, we can divide and carry that burden and go forward. I believe that is the duty of a child. I pray that we can attend True Mother as our center and become true filial sons or daughters who will advance non-stop toward Cheon Il Guk.