Yeon Ah (Choi) Moon at FFWPU Sunday Service - Vienna, Austria

Hoon Dok Hae Reading [ from the book PYEONG beings, he must have had a purpose and an ideal. HWA GYEONG ] God’s purpose and ideal are to establish a world united through true love, with God as the Parent of all people. Book 7, Chapter 17 Under the true love of God, all people would be <The True Revolution of Heart and the Opening of the brothers and sisters living in one harmonious, Era of True Liberation and Complete Freedom> July worldwide family. God’s ideal, then, is the creation of 26, 2004 one world under God. Ladies and gentlemen, God conceived the term “true … parents” in His mind before the creation. All the ideals When Adam and Eve were growing up, all things of connected to God’s creation began from the ideal of creation essentially formed a textbook of love for true love, which originates from true parents. Thus, them, displaying an endless variety of manifestations even before the creation, the term “true parents” of love. Adam and Eve, representing God’s inspired hope, hope that God treasured. Countless masculinity and femininity, were to gradually awaken people throughout the course of God’s providence lost to love through their life within God’s textbook of their lives before God could send the True Parents. love, which is nature. They were become perfectly Book 3, Chapter 7 mature and realize the ideal of marriage. <The Will of God> August 20, 1985 That was God’s ultimate purpose of creation. God Our living, personal God is eternal, absolute and directed His love toward the vertical relationship unchanging. Therefore, His Will is also eternal, between Himself and human beings and, after the absolute and unchanging. When God created human perfection of vertical love, also toward the horizontal 1

relationship between Adam and Eve. God, who has the Parent of humankind. He would have been the existed as the invisible subject partner ever since the center of our lives and the root of our existence. beginning, was yearning for someone who would We can truly know God only when we feel him in our respond to His love. He was waiting to meet His hearts and understand the reality of His existence in perfected visible object partners, man and woman. the course of our daily life. We can know God’s How stimulating and fulfilling that love would have existence through experience. When we know the been! reality of God’s existence directly from experiencing That moment was the very moment when God, the Him in our daily lives, we will be able to sense God’s internal Parent, was to have resided within Adam and Will naturally from moment to moment. We will act in Eve, the external parents, to be completely one with accordance with His Will without being told to do so. them. In that moment, the ideal of love would have We will become people who cannot sin even if we been accomplished. The invisible Parent, God, would wanted to. have resided in the visible parents, Adam and Eve, and God, who is formless, intended to take on substantial would have become the eternal Parent in the visible form through human beings. They would have the world. In this manner, Adam and Eve were to have character and stature of owners who would exercise become the True Parents, the true original ancestors of dominion over all of creation both in this world, the all humankind. world of forms, and in the spirit world. This is why our Book 2, Chapter 10 highest priority in life is to know God with certainty. <God’s Homeland and the Peace Kingdom Are Built Book 1, Chapter 13 on the Foundation of His Liberation and Complete < God’s Homeland and One World> October 16, Freedom> May 1, 2004 2002 Ladies and gentlemen, please quietly place your hand Without a nation, there is no nationality. That means on your heart and think seriously. If everyone truly that there are no grounds on which you can have your knew that God exists and always lived in attendance to name entered into a national family registry. Him, what would prevent us from solving the Therefore, what we need to do in this current world is problems in today’s world? I now declare to you very to find that nation. We must form the heavenly bluntly: God exists and He is our Parent. He is alive kingdom and, with that nationality, we must live on and carries out His work in each person’s life. this earth as the victorious sons and daughters who … have inherited the lineage of true and good parents When God created Adam and Eve as the first human who love their nation and their people. As such, we ancestors, He wanted to establish them as substantial must lead our family and our clan so that we can enter embodiments of Himself. So he placed His masculine the kingdom of heaven in the heavenly world. That is nature in the mind of Adam and His feminine nature in the Principle. the mind of Eve, intending to keep them there for Only when we have a nation will we have a tradition eternity. This did not mean that God was divided into that we may peacefully leave behind for our two. Instead, while residing in the minds of Adam and descendants for all time. Only then will all our efforts Eve, He would have existed as a harmonized being of of shedding blood and sweat remain. Only then will a dual characteristics and as a unified being whose love commemorative tower appear on the earth to would be in the central position. congratulate God for His hard work. Only then will As a result of the human Fall, however, humanity lost traces of all glory remain on the earth. If we cannot everything. We fell into a false world. We appear to establish a nation, everything will be for naught. have sight, but in fact we are blind, not even knowing Ladies and gentlemen! I have nothing to envy in this if God exists. What could be more tragic in the history world. I have no interest in the things of the world. My of humankind? If Adam and Eve, created in the image life’s wish is only this: “Can I die in a nation where of God, had grown to maturity without falling, God can protect me? If I don’t live that way before I achieved perfection, and acquired the position of the go, will my life not have been a miserable one? parents of humankind, all people would have been able Therefore, before I die, I have to seek that nation and to recognize the reality of God’s existence through live within that nation, even if only for a single day.” Adam and Eve. It would have been impossible even to I am going forward with the mindset of investing the imagine people arguing with one another, saying, sacrifice of thousands of days for that one day. I am “God exists” or “No, He does not.” God would have going forward, even if you who do not understand are lived with us and shared our emotions for eternity as resting.

Ladies and gentlemen, what was the purpose for which the level of development of my own heart – I we were born on this earth? It was so that we could apologise, but hope you understand. love that nation. The purpose of God’s providence up Wherever Mother goes, she smiles and tries to until now was also to love that nation. A person encourage each and everyone. It wasn’t too long ago without a sovereign nation to call his own is pitiful now, that Mother came on a visit here to Vienna and indeed. Therefore Jesus said, in consideration of this: Europe. You are surely interested how Mother is “Therefore do not worry, saying ‘What will we eat?’ doing at the present time. As you know just recently or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’ For Mother called all the leaders from Europe to a it is the Gentiles who strive for all these things; and meeting in Korea. Were you here in Europe keeping indeed your Heavenly Father knows that you need all busy and being responsible in your missions during these things. But strive first for the kingdom of God their absence? Or did you use that opportunity to and His righteousness, and all these things will be relax and rest? You were keeping busy? Thank you given to you as well.” (Matt. 6:31-33) for that. Did Jesus say to first seek a son or to first seek God’s Maybe you have heard that Mother can’t ever really kingdom? He said to seek the nation that God is rest at night, even though she may try. There were seeking. God’s hope to establish His kingdom and His many times when she was obliged to start the next righteousness is not realized apart from us and the day without having really rested at all. You will things of creation. Rather, it is realized through us. surely know why. The question is, is that just something you understand with your mind? Or do

G ood morning everyone - guten Morgen! you also grasp that with your heart? I had the Thank you for your warm hospitality and concept that if Mother can’t sleep well, it’s because beautiful music for Heavenly Parents and her thoughts are continually with the providence of True Parents. Let us reciprocate by giving heaven - making plans, etc. But specifically, what something back to you through a song by my aspects of the providence are of biggest concern to daughter. [At her mother’s request Shin Yuh Nim her? What do you think? If you were similarly comes on the stage and sings ‘Country roads, West concerned with such issues, would you ever be able Virginia’.] to take a break and really rest? If you were weighed down with such burdens, even though tired, you also My English is unfortunately not sufficient to express wouldn’t be able to sleep well. If you are greatly my thoughts and feelings fully, therefore I asked troubled, can you sleep well during those times? Herbert to translate, so that I can speak further in Somehow I always manage to sleep more or less Korean. okay – maybe that’s a sign that I can’t even imagine [in Korean] I wish you all a good day. Today is such great troubles. Maybe like most of us, mine are Sunday; I want to share some things. We just read primarily ‘mind-level’ concerns. But ‘heart-level’ the Hoon Dok Hae and sang a few devotional songs, concerns are of a whole different dimension. which surely caused you to think and feel many If you invest yourself in your mission with your things. Also I am asking myself, if True Mother whole heart, does that primarily burden just your were here now in front of you, what would she have mind or your heart? If we were just concerned in our wanted to share from her heart with you? I think heads, if the providence would go well or not, first of all, she would present you with a big would that have such an influence on our ability to encouraging smile. Then she would maybe ask you: sleep? ‘how have you spent your time? Could you spend it well? In any case thank you for your hard work. In But if I think about how little time I still have on the future I appeal to you to please keep ‘busy as this earth before I depart for the spirit world, and I bees’’. Possibly she would’ve started with a few think about the present situation of my children who words like that - expressing her heart. In my case, I will have to leave behind, isn’t that a mega-burden can you accept it if I start by smiling at you? That is of the heart? Could you be concerned with that, and something like the way True Mother would begin. not have great pains in your heart? Then wouldn’t never-being-able-to-rest-at-all be a logical You are the children of True Parents in Europe, in consequence? In that context, isn’t then the whom True Mother’s bright smile would awaken sleeplessness of True Mother understandable? deep feelings. Maybe you can appreciate, I want very much to convey the heart of True Mother – Imagine if you lay down to sleep and closed your which is much more developed than my own - but eyes, only to reawaken in lands far away to the cries feel unqualified. What I can convey, is merely from of people there who are desperate to be saved - can 3

you understand why she can’t sleep? Please realise First, we must develop our interest in that and study that True Mother’s inability to rest, is a consequence it. But just to grasp it intellectually is not enough, of a heart much bigger than any of us share. It is not we must also experience it. It is because True only the concern, if we can fulfil the goals of ‘Vision Parents bond directly to Heavenly Parents in heart – 2020’ or not, but also if all members (and people) they resonate together. They feel the heart of can really be saved. What do you think? If you were Heavenly Parents directly and express it. If we to really empathise with all members around the could also feel that, how wonderful that would be? world - how much they are investing themselves and So even though I may only have been in the what difficult challenges they’re going through - presence of True Parents for a short time, it is would it be so easy for you to sleep peacefully? neither their physical capacity, nor their As you observed the masses of refugees who intellectual/mind-level capacity, but it is their overwhelmed Europe beginning last year, what was endless heart of love that really dwarfs everything your feeling? Forgive me for repeating myself, but else. And because of that heart of love, True Parents also in that regard ‘concerns of the mind (thinking)’ can persevere to the end. Even if we haven’t are not the main issue – ‘concerns of the heart’ are developed anywhere near such a capacity to love, far more important. they still have the capacity to be patient with us. We would like for our children to prosper, but when You will have sometimes wondered, why have True they are not doing well, we feel pain in our hearts. Parents been so patient with selected leaders who While I am still here on the earth, how can I best didn’t seem to have exceptional capabilities; why help my children; and what will happen to them were they still allowed to retain those positions? once I have departed to the spiritual world? If you Even for us on the lower levels of development, live a life where you really feel that in your heart, they try to help us develop so that also we can reach then you already know what to do and I don’t need the highest realms. If someone has disappointing to give any long talk here. I just want to be sure that capabilities, we can’t just discard that person. It’s the True Mother’s heart has been conveyed. There are same with our children, when our children so many things outstanding that are waiting to be disappoint us or cause us problems, we can’t just fulfilled – consider the realms of love and children; ignore them and discard them. Where does that and when our hearts are moved in that direction, heart come from? It comes from Heavenly Parents how can we sleep peacefully? It’s simple. What since the beginning of creation. In today’s Hoon results can be achieved on the level of the Dok Hae, you will find that confirmed. providence, that’s another issue. What is it that Heavenly Parents expected of us When you look into the face of True Mother, you since the beginning of creation? If mankind had not can sense if she could at least rest a bit or not. With fallen, what kind of world would have come about? such continual concerns, unfortunately it seems And how would we have lived in such a world? But peaceful sleep generally eludes her. I have now that we came to live in this fallen world, how experienced that directly many times. do Heavenly Parents feel about that? What should we fulfil? We must fulfil the will of God here on From where does the love of True Mother come? earth; we can understand that from Divine Principle. How can True Mother love the whole of mankind as her own children – not just as a concept, but in her As True Mother stressed in her most recent public heart? Could you do that? Is that possible? That’s speeches in Korea: you yourselves must fulfil that. my personal question to each and everyone of you. You yourselves must take charge and become How is that possible? For many, maybe most of us, subjects. Can you fulfil that? Do you resonate with who haven’t had personal experiences with True that deep in your heart, or is yours just a Mother, we wonder how is it possible that she can commitment in your head? Or do you just do it, love us? How can she love people who she doesn’t because you feel you have to? I hope each and every even know? How can she feel the love of God in her one of you feels that deeply from the heart and that heart? It is possible because True Mother dwells in we mutually share that commitment. I perceive, you the realm of the love of Heavenly Parents – and Europeans are not the kind of people who might feels that love in her heart. How does that love feel? proclaim that boldly; if you could bring yourselves Just through prayer, you can’t feel that full love. I to do that, I feel True Mother would praise you was curious to to know if True Mother could really more. feel the heart of Heavenly Parents deeply? And if True Mother really considers Europe to be very we could also feel that, how should we behave? important. You know that Europe, especially

Austria, made a substantial contribution to foreign you really have hope? A real hope in your heart, not missions and mobilisations. True Mother can’t just in your head? What kind of hope do you have? forget the potential you have in that direction - the If the many positive exclamations coming now back tradition that began with ‘Mission Butterfly’, which from the audience are backed by full commitment, I has since spread out around the world. Of course can stop my talk here; no more words are necessary. you’ve gotten older in the meantime. But you should Until the year 2020 and beyond, do your best and be proud of it and don’t just keep it for yourselves. invest yourselves as True Parents have been guiding For that reason Mother is wondering: ‘what’s going us. on in Europe? What are my precious sons and We should really live our lives feeling the presence daughters there doing? Those members - who have of True Parents every day. Even if True Mother is such a tendency toward tranquillity - in whom I far away from us distance-wise, we should live each have great hope and trust, what are they doing?’ You day with concern for her concerns - touching heart know that you have great capabilities, and you know to heart. Allow me to provoke movement in your that there is no other place in the world that can hearts. If we just get stuck as it is at present, it will compare to the capabilities of European members. be a problem. Of course there are accompanying obstacles in the If we are determined in our our hearts that we will European cultural environment, but you are children accomplish by 2020, then it will be okay. If we can of God that can be trusted. If you can’t do that, who really share the heart of our True Parents, then we is going to do it? Then why don’t we deploy our can surely stride ahead - just as True Parents have capabilities 100%? Why are we still holding back? tirelessly stridden on, in spite of not being able to The year 2020 is rapidly approaching; when will we rest, but because they shared the heart of Heavenly start realising our capabilities 100%? Parents. In our individual heart-realms, if we When I look around me here in Austria and manage to connect to that same root, we can also be especially Vienna – I feel what a wonderful city and successful. Thus we can’t really afford to further a wonderful country. My daughter even mentioned meander around, disconnected from the heart of that she would love to live in a place like this; also I True Parents. feel the same. I could eat schnitzel everyday. The calling is for each and everyone of us to make Wherever I walk in the streets I see works of art. renewed effort. After all, don’t you long to develop When I go into the churches, I am overwhelmed by your heart more; don’t you long to become wiser all the accumulated works of art. It is really and more mature? Therefore you should focus more wonderful. How can people make so many works of on making this attitude an essential part of your art? What kind of heart does it take to create such daily life. In this regard I, don’t need to repeat how wonderful works of art? How much effort and love important it is to daily study Hoon Dok Hae. For the for detail is invested into each created work? Such same reason, we should never cease to make efforts loveliness professes to the lovely potential that to attend Sunday services - continually seeking to Heavenly Parents have bestowed on us. renew our connection to Heavenly Parents and True However among those works of art, when we see Parents. As important as that is, following it is a frequent images of Jesus, we are reminded how warning: as I’m sure you’re aware, if I focus only on unhappy he was; he had such a distressed and cultivating my own personal vertical relationship, sorrowful heart. Wherever you look, you can’t find but neglect keeping that in balance with the any images of Jesus where he looks satisfied or horizontal relationships given me in my life – if I happy – why? No one understands the heart of True neglect to share it with my blessed-partner, family, Parents. It is so difficult for us human beings to extended-family / community, etc. - then it loses its perceive the heart of Jesus and True Parents and value and meaning. Just my good thoughts and Heavenly Parents. In the the midst of this externally intentions are not enough. Each and every one of us beautiful environment, why must all people still needs those relationships to the people around us - (internally) carry such a heavy cross on their given to us in our lives. Mutual relationships are shoulders and walk the way of his suffering? Why essential. Our lives were designed to be lived did the Lord of the Second Advent have to come on together with others – establishing deep mutual earth? True Father and True Mother have often relationships of heart. Once we accomplish that, spoken of this. other people will begin to really acknowledge and While living in this wonderful external respect us. environment, do you have hope in your heart? Do

True Mother expects us to transpose our own children have – from those who are well developed, personal vertical relationship, in all the horizontal to share with that less-developed child. The result relationships to the people given to us in our lives. may not look like fair and equal distribution, With what attitude will we be able to realise that? because I would end up giving more to the Isn’t it the attitude: that we keep giving, giving and disadvantaged child than to the others. But my giving, then immediately forget what we have intention is to help the disadvantaged child to given? develop as well as the others. That might mean that From now on we must realise our responsibility. If I I would entrust the more capable children with more invest in others – giving and giving - and as a result difficult tasks or missions, because I know they can they develop themselves, then I also need to take handle that. Couldn’t that be the case? responsibility for such development. That is love. So you brothers and sisters here in Europe, please That is the heart of parents for their children. That is know that Mother trusts you. She knows you can the heart of grandparents for their grandchildren. It handle it, you almost carry on by yourselves, even is the expectation that my children and though she wasn’t always able to give you so much. grandchildren will develop more fully than I myself. But you understand: it would be a heavy burden, if I I will only really be happy, when they have more went go into the spiritual world without having been fully developed than I myself - to see the substantial able to help those more disadvantaged children. I effects of my giving and giving. This is the attitude appeal to you to appreciate that, equal quality of of heart that we should bring into our mutual life- parental love (which is not visible), should not be relationships. As True Parents love all of us, we confused with equitable portioning in the visible should love the people around us in our personal realm. You give a lot to the ones that need a lot, and lives. you give less to those who can manage with less – What is it that I should do to get my counterparts don’t you do like that with your own children as (the individual people in my personal realm of life) well? Instinctively you don’t always portion to develop better than myself? Is it enough when I everything exactly equally; just as you would never say that I should give, give and give, then give up on a child because it was less fortunate or immediately forget what I have given? No, I must disadvantaged. On the contrary, you would try to also take responsibility for the outcome – in other help especially the less-advantaged by giving out words, my responsibility grows and grows and even more to them. Therefore because Mother never ends. I am reminded of a slogan I heard from couldn’t always reward you with abundant external the time of the last world war: ‘we will take expressions of love, and True Parents even entrusted responsibility until the very end’. Can I take you with especially difficult tasks – like Mission responsibility for my actions for all eternity? If we Butterfly, which not just anyone could have live with such a heart, we touch the heart of accomplished - you had to go through especially Heavenly Parents. True Parents take responsibility difficult situations, because they recognised (and for us until the very end. Even when we falter and were nurturing) your potential. Those are some of our capabilities are insufficient, they never abandon the reasons why Mother sent me to encourage the us. They as parents are continually concerned: how European leadership. She didn’t always have the can I help my children to develop? I think I don’t opportunity to give out to all in the world equally; need to explain further; if each one of you can she really wants to know how you’re doing and she develop yourselves along these lines, then I feel knows you are trying to give your best every day - encouraged. however difficult it may be, trying not to be discouraged and not to lose the essential connection In each family with more children, there is quite to Heavenly Parents and True Parents. As I in the often a child who is less developed than the others, position of a parent try to do my best, please you causing concern. The first thing I feel in my heart is: also try to do your best. Imagine the heart of Mother when I go to the spiritual world, what will happen to when she can’t find peace in sleep, and believe that that child? I must make extra special effort that that you are the children she can trust, and on whom she child also develops; then when I am no longer can rely. around, it could also be okay. Of primary concern is not how to point out the insufficiencies of that child True Mother often says that there are many people or even to scold it, but to find out: how can I who have been prepared by heaven and it is our provide what that child needs to develop? Then I responsibility to find them. There are many good might be obliged to take from what the other people in this world. There are a lot of people who are better than we ourselves. There are people who 6

live a life more for the sake of others than we do; it that she lives a long time, but is not able to work is our responsibility to find those people and together with us as interactively as she does now. connect them to the Heavenly Parents. Why? The issue is, can we stride ahead in place of True Because we are the children of True Parents, if we Parents? How much we must develop ourselves so are conscious of that or not. that we are able to do that? Your conscience will be My likes and dislikes are not as important as what able to answer that. Your conscience will dictate to God thinks (likes). Most important is: what is the you what needs to be done now. What do Heavenly will of God and what is the will of True Parents? Parents expect of us at this time? What kind of heart What do they expect of us? So when we make do True Parents have? effort, then we will also be able to find those people We shouldn’t overhear the voice of our own prepared by heaven and connect them. conscience. Even if that voice is very quiet, we Our tribal mission to bless 430 couples - that is our should especially seek it – developing our abilities responsibility which we need to fulfil. The numbers to hear it. If you do that you will be more aware of are not as important as finding the people prepared the heart of True Parents. Let us not let our original by heaven. We must keep ‘knocking on doors’ and mind (or should we call it: access to our original keep tirelessly arranging meetings until we find heart) falter and weaken. Even if you don’t want to them. You will then find them, often where you do the things it dictates, we must do them anyway. least expected. That’s why there’s no time to rest, but Why? Because those are the tasks given to us by every day we need to keep making effort, so that True Parents. The concerns of True Parents are my eventually as many people as possible can share the concerns. I should continually pull myself together, joy of salvation. I wish that those people could live to renew my efforts for True Parents. better than my own children. Before True Father went into the spiritual world, he If I live a struggling life, but as long as my children wanted to have accomplished everything. True are happy, in the end we all will share sufficient Father and True Mother who love us so much, were happiness. On the other hand if I live a struggling always most concerned to establish a secure life, I don’t want to inherit that kind of life to my environment for us to live well; they gave (are still children. It would be quite a different story, if I giving) their all. So if we get stuck in our oblige my children to go through a struggling development, and don’t develop further, who is course, in order for them to fulfil higher goals and going to do that for us? The onus is on us; that’s our develop themselves more. That is a heart of parents, job - my job. that is universal. When I am with True Parents, I When we become old, is it right to lean back and feel that kind of heart projecting from them. In the rather let our children work for us? You know what presence of their heart, I am most aware of how I’m talking about. The challenge is: those glorious much there still is to be done. ideals in our heads - how can we transpose them in Here in Europe the hope is that we can kindle a new our hearts? How can we become parents, like our fire for the vision of Heavenly Parents, which earns distant True Parents? How can we love other the praise of True Parents. That is the heart of True people, as we love our own children and siblings? If Mother. How do we respond to that heart? There is you love with the heart of a parent, it will work - not much more time until the year 2020. taking responsibility up to the very end. Sometimes I imagine, what will it be like when True When I observe that the people around me are Mother goes into the spiritual world? How will we developing, I feel happy. Because you share that live? Will we have a greater hope than now? Can we kind of heart with True Parents, that’s one good reliably take responsibility for the future with what reason why you are still here. If we live with that we have learned from True Parents until now? Can quality of heart, then it won’t be a problem for us to my 10-year-old son reliably take responsibility for fulfil that mission of 430 couples. Don’t think about his future without me? Can you understand, how fulfilling that mission alone, it is for us to fulfil True Mother is concerned about us? She is now 74 together. I bring a few, the others bring more, or years old. How long will her health hold up, so that vice versa - we accomplish it together. We’re one she can still actively work together with us? It’s big family. It’s not about me alone claiming the unlikely that she will reach 100. Perhaps 20 more limelight and receiving the praise, or not. From the years? It is our hope that it will be at least 20 years; vantage point of parents, I want to inherit all it could of course be less than that. It could also be benefits to the children.

From the audience comes a request to comment on My husband, Hyo Jin Nim, was sometimes at the the role of the Holy Spirit. bottom of ‘deep valleys’; at other times he was at the I want to emphasise the power of love – the love of top of ‘high peaks’ – there were many ups and True Parents. Not everything can be fulfilled downs; I wouldn’t say his was such an exemplary through the power of the Holy Spirit alone. life. You have probably heard that there were Certainly, by virtue of the Holy Spirit Christianity unfortunately enough downs, but he proclaimed he could be empowered. But how many Christians would take personal responsibility to the end for any were martyred? Why do I continually refer back to mistakes. What impressed me was, he explained he the love of True Parents? Because in my experience, was grateful to Heavenly Parents, not only for the that is of most central importance. We studied highest points in his life, but also for the lowest; Divine Principle and try to grasp God’s providence, because he recognised: by having gone through in that context what is brought out as being of most those most difficult times, he could especially central importance? Why did True Father never develop himself; through those he could develop his cease encouraging us to live for the sake of others? personality more, including his love for others. He Because with that attitude of heart I can change the said if he hadn’t gone through those most difficult people of the world. situations, he might have become a much more rough, wild person – a fate he could thankfully Many church leaders have assured us, that True avoid. Parents love us, but how can I tell that they love us? I can’t always feel it; I have maybe very seldom met So again, what is the love of Heavenly Parents and them; I don’t know; and when they speak with True Parents? What is the essence of that love? strong conviction, I’m almost afraid; I don’t feel the Often that love may express itself in an warmth of love. Parents don’t just give sweets to unconventional way - sometimes it might even lead their children. They want to inherit a good world to us through the pits of difficult situations; sometimes us. They want us to develop better than our parent’s I may feel more hated than loved; at other times I generation. Once you have become parents might feel more ignored and humiliated than yourselves, you begin to grasp that. If we live every otherwise. At times the impression might even arise: day with that attitude of heart, then surely a Holy they certainly don’t feel like my parents. But when Spirit power will be generated. To me that is love. you think about it, was there ever any moment in What is that love like? my life when the love of Heavenly Parents, the Holy Spirit and True Parents didn’t exist? Those voids, When my child was five years old, I asked him: you those lackings that I felt, was that because no love know that I love you, don’t you? He said, no; and I existed? Or was that rather due to an immature was shocked. What’s wrong? Why can’t you feel it? development of my own perception? He said: you push me to eat vegetables and do house-chores; when I want to play my favourite The history of the Holy Spirit and the history of the game, you often don’t allow it - I don’t feel loved. love of True Parents, that is the history of the love Then I asked: do you feel that your father loves through which we could develop; that is the love you? He answered, yes. Why? We watch movies that parents express to their children; that is the together, he plays with me, he takes me on history of a love, wherein parents continually tried excursions and goes shopping with me, etc. The to lift their children up higher than they were expression of love that comes across, varies themselves. All forms of that love only ever existed according to the purpose of the activity at hand. so that we could develop our hearts further. And that love is for you; each and every one of you are When do you feel loved? Does just a sense of embraced by that love - the love of the Holy Spirit, security/protection bring out feelings of being loved the love of Heavenly Parents. in you? When my parents confront me with difficult challenges, couldn’t that also be an expression of How does that love come to us? I’d like to propose, their love? Perhaps, even if it didn’t feel very nice at as preparation for the time after which True Parents all at the time, when I later discover how much I can no longer interactively relate to us in this could develop through those challenges, I physical world: from now on every remaining day, recognised the love of my parents and am grateful – we should try to accelerate our development of maybe especially because of those challenges, I heart, in order to be ready. Sometimes we may get could develop so much more than I would have the ‘sweet’, but we won’t be able to avoid sometimes otherwise. also getting the ‘sour’ - in order for us to develop. Beware of a verbal ‘I-love-you-I-love-you-culture’ –

that’s not the solution; in fact, in certain situations providential-organisational-level work, which needs that could even be counter-productive, eventually to be done – it all has its importance. That’s another making things worse for all involved. reason why we should continually nurture that vital True Mother often emphasises she is ‘the only vertical relationship in our daily lives. And those begotten daughter’. How are we to understand that? vertical impulses we are challenged to transpose I understand that as follows. She is the True Mother into realisation on the ‘horizontal plains’ around us who takes responsibility for us to the very end. She in our unique individual situations. takes responsibility as True Parents for all of us To summarise, True Parents are continually until the very end. ‘The only begotten daughter’ endeavouring to give their all for us. How do we takes responsibility for her children. How thankful feel that? It’s like we as parents experience with our we must be that True Mother takes responsibility for children; like the heart that I want to give to my us until the very end? We must be grateful that she children; it’s related to the struggle I have invested is not just holding us by ourselves responsible. through my whole life, so that my children would That’s the way I understand it. Her attitude is: I will have it better than I – so that they can be happy help you so that you can fulfil your responsibility to without having to go such a struggling course. But the very end. I feel it is True Mother’s love for us, for that to come about, someone will have to have that she takes responsibility for us in all eternity. I gone that struggling course; therefore it would be hope you can appreciate the magnitude of what I am ideal if I as a child of True Parents could take on saying. that responsibility – with a grateful heart. Ideally I Sorry if I have sometimes repeated myself. We don’t should apologise to True Parents and offer to go a know how much and how often we will still be able struggling course on their behalf, regardless of how to meet with True Mother and interact with her. I difficult that situation may be. Actually in your want to convey to you the endless love she has for situation there is no one else who can do it except her children. That’s why I wanted to convey her you. If you had a child who is involved in a mission continual concern, her restless heart. What more is where they often have to risk their life, could you there to be said about the love of the Holy Spirit and sleep peacefully? Could you eat your meals, or go the love of True Mother? Your original minds will about other routines in your daily life, with peace in be touched and will recognise what I’m talking your heart? Your thoughts and prayers would be about. continually with your endangered children – such a way of life would be a sign of your great love. You all believe that our end goal is to live happily together with Heavenly Parents? You also know that Most of all I want to make you aware of such a it’s one of our first priorities to restore one nation for realm of heart. More valuable than countless empty Heavenly Parents. The providence of True Parents is words about love, is to know that feeling confirmed not a personal undertaking, but extends worldwide. in our hearts. Do we feel that greater dimension of Why have they founded so many organisations, like love through our daily actions/activities or not? IAPP (International Association of Parliamentarians Once again, I want to draw your attention to how for Peace), etc.? For the providence, they have much True Mother embraces us with that dimension founded so many organisations. They have not done of love. She is tirelessly seeking how she can give that because we didn’t fulfil our responsibility, but more and more to you – she’s trying to set up that for the purpose of establishing a foundation for as kind of ‘culture’, starting from Cheongpyeong and many people as possible to connect to True Parents. extending it in providential activities around the We will be the beneficiaries of that great heritage. world. And what is the purpose and goal of that? It However, while they are still alive on this earth they is for you. She wants to leave behind a better world need our cooperation - with all blessed families in which you can live. In the process, it can’t be together. We need to restore the tribal-messiah avoided that you will also have to sometimes go heritage and the national heritage. There are many through a struggling course, and take on many partial supporting goals – like the organisations: responsibilities, but she believes in you - that you IAPP, IAYSP (International Association of Youth can do it - that’s why she shares those challenges and Students for Peace), UPF, etc. (just to name a with you. Even if that is difficult, will you do it or few) - which all merge into one overall goal. In my not? We should always maintain the attitude, if my opinion the providence of the Holy Spirit fulfils brother or sister can’t manage, on their behalf I will itself in this way. Of course feeling the warmth of try to carry a bigger share; and all that I have, I will personal love, is not one of the strong points of that do my best to share with others – that is ‘lived love’.

Love is not so concerned if things are portioned out providence. When we lay conditions that Satan can equally or not. Maybe I am repeating myself again, use, progress may stop. So you understand why I but maybe that is also how love sometimes can’t just gloss things over (by only talking about expresses itself. I will gladly take on difficult sunshine and flowers). We must be aware of the challenges – our True Father was an example in time which we are living, spiritually wake up and that. He tirelessly did Hoon Dok Hae, regardless if strive boldly forward. he hadn’t slept or hadn’t eaten. Why did he behave We must again and again readjust our hearts, to like that? Because of this attitude of heart that we follow better the example shown to us by True are talking about. Let me give the better part to you, Parents. I hope in this way that I could provoke and I’ll gladly take the worse part. I choose to rather movement in your hearts. Until now we may not take the difficult path, for your sake. That’s Mother’s have lived such an exemplary life of faith, although way. That’s the way of the heart of Heavenly we may have been used it. Perhaps it is then good to Parents. be made more aware that our Mother is concerned We must acknowledge who Heavenly Parents are, about us, feels pain in her heart – let us strive to and who True Parents are. We must fulfil the wish better align our hearts with her heart. But how do of Heavenly Parents. We must grow into being filial you feel? children of our Heavenly Parents. If we really love As True Parents are doing for us, that us strive to do Heavenly Parents, we must go that course. Our for our own children, for others; if we don’t carry on Heavenly Parents have always secretly been in love that heritage, there’s little hope for the future. I can’t with us. True Parents have tirelessly been trying to really imagine how it will be when True Parents no make us aware of that. We must strive to become longer on this earth, but if you and I take full parents who fulfil the 430-couples mission. In responsibility maybe it will be okay. One thing is addition, we must strive to always take sure, we can’t (find the happiness we long for, if we) responsibility until the very end. In that way, we drift or run away from True Parents. Sooner or later respond to the call of our parents, then we can really we grasp that in our hearts. Depths of the heart are feel the heart of Heavenly Parents and True Parents. not always logically explainable. We must thoroughly experience the heart of True In conclusion, I want to convey what I personally Parents before we depart into the spiritual world. have experienced with True Parents. If that weren’t True Mother is trying tirelessly to make us aware of the case I wouldn’t be standing here appealing to that. She is restlessly concerned how she can give you, I would probably be out somewhere enjoying out more and better. The time will come when all things with my children. It is my sincere hope that will acknowledge that. all of us will stride together to the very end with I hope my sharing could help you. Our time is True Parents… This has been an attempt to convey limited; True Mother’s time with us on this earth is the heart of True Mother. Once again, I apologise limited. Satan has ample opportunity to get involved for my inadequacy in that regard. Thank you very and erect obstacles blocking the way of the much.