FFWPU International: Message by Moon Shin-chul after True Mother's detention by S. Korea

Dear blessed families, how are you? Today has truly been… I couldn’t eat well, and I imagine many of you could not sleep well either. Our hearts are burning, unable to comprehend this situation. How can this be happening to our True Parents? So I believe you must be feeling both deep anger and the frustration of being powerless. We really want to express this to the world, but how can we? It must have been a day when your hearts have truly burned with anguish. But I’m sorry to say that I don’t yet have the capacity to fully understand and empathize with you.

Even just trying to imagine how True Mother must feel in her heart right now is overwhelming. Yet there is one thing of which I am certain. I believe I now understand why, even in the midst of such difficulty, just last week True Mother sent Shin-heung and me out to continue our global tour. What I came to realize during this tour is that the greatest and most precious, unique asset of our Family Federation is our members. Just two weeks ago, before we departed, True Mother called us and said, “Don’t worry. Don’t worry about Korea. Go out and tell the blessed families around the world that I am okay. And tell them, thank you. Tell the missionaries, thank you. Because they kept their positions, the providence is still alive. Because somewhere, in unseen places, someone was witnessing, we are still here today.”

So in this time, when Mother faces both a difficult environment and psychological challenges, what might be her most earnest hope? Reflecting on this, I felt a deep sense of concern. Knowing how deeply the members love her, Mother may be worried that those strong emotions could end up hurting you, that her sons and daughters might be hurt; or that in her absence, you might struggle to contain your grief, and receive emotional scars. I believe these concerns are weighing heavily on her heart.

So personally, my thinking is: What does True Mother want most from us right now? A rally? Some kind of statement? Reform initiatives? When I think about it, True Mother has consistently said from the beginning to the end that she is the Mother of Peace, and asked us to pray for the world. If society expects us to protest or take radical action, True Mother would say, “Forgive. Love. Show society through your actions. Even if they cannot believe in me, let them see my sons and daughters who follow me.” At this moment, when True Mother, who is more precious than our own lives, is separated from us, wouldn’t she wish that we forgive, love, and move forward in prayer for Korea and for society?

Through this, when True Mother sees us - her children, the fruit of her life and the lives of the True Parents - she can think, “Ah, the steps I have taken all my life for peace and for the world can be safeguarded through my children. Even in my absence, there is nothing to worry about.” Personally, I feel that this is the example we should strive to show.

I truly cannot understand this situation either. I cannot make sense of it in my mind. How could they make the decision to confine someone who is clearly an elderly grandmother with fragile health? It is infuriating. Yet in my heart, I feel that True Mother would not want us to respond with anger or rage, but with love, forgiveness, and understanding - bearing witness to the lives of the True Parents.

Actually, I’m still only 27 years old, and I know you are very worried. But still, I feel that in this difficult situation, we must move forward truly united in heart, centering on True Mother.

Therefore, even though you may feel uncontrollable anger in your hearts, least until True Mother’s safety is secured, until she can once again be with us, would it not be our duty as the children, as filial sons and daughters, to digest these feelings for True Parents’ sake and move forward together?

With these words, I would like to conclude my brief words of greeting.