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The next Blessing Preparation Course begins November 3rd.
Cheon Seong Gyeong 1999
What are the characteristics of the nation that you long for? Such a heavenly nation is dissimilar in every way to the nations you currently live in. You will have to say goodbye to those nations one day. If you are attached to them, then you have to know that you are attached to sinfulness. You know deep in your hearts that you were born as the descendants of fallen human beings who were not related to the original goodness that would have allowed the will of that nation to be linked to the will of God. (37-217, 1970.12.27)
Cheon Seong Gyeong 2069
We must return to the hometown of our origin! This is based on the Principle. How can you deny this? It’s the logical conclusion. Those who don’t think so raise your hands. Can you deny this? There is no way, other than the way of obedience and submission. That’s why we are doing that in Korea, at this time. By returning to your hometowns, you must complete the foundation for the nation upon the foundation of having completed the tong ban breakthrough activities in you area. This is done by starting in each family and raising them through the formation, growth, and completion stages.
The family is the formation stage, the tong and ban (local community and neighborhood) are the tribal growth stage, and then the nation is the completion stage. These three points must be connected in the family. If you don’t connect these points in the family, then they can’t be connected at the tribal level. They can’t be connected to the nation, and they can’t be connected to the world. (218-184, 1991.7.28)
Richard: To solve today’s pressing problems, we must start in the family. The next level is for Blessed Families to reach out to their neighbors with the message of sexual purity before marriage and the the Blessing. Finally, this will lead to electing godly leaders and having a God-centered nation.
It does not happen the opposite way. We have to address the issue of family breakdown first. The Unification Principle provides a clear framework for doing this.
Cheon Seong Gyeong
Selections from the Speeches of Rev. Sun Myung Moon
Book 4
TRUE FAMILY
Chapter 4
Our Course of Life Centered on Love
Section 4. What is God’s Love?
Try to discover God’s love. How can we characterize God’s love? It can be compared to a warm spring day where white clouds gently float in the sky, heat rises from the ground, insects fly around, ants crawl in and out to see the world, pussy willows shoot out by the stream, frogs sing new spring songs, bees swarm and butterflies flutter. You feel intoxicated in such an environment and feel sleepy, but in reality you are awake and feeling so good that you want to stay like this forever.
When God finds His ideal object partner, He gets the same feeling, as if He is in a beautiful garden of flowers where butterflies and bees fly around. When thinking of this, do you feel good or bad? These dull-witted men may not be aware of this. It feels good. When you run into someone you are pleased to see, you hold his hand firmly and shake hands.
When someone joyfully says, “Long time no see!” and holds your hand firmly, do you feel good or bad? If there is someone who says he feels bad, just kick him, saying, “You jerk!” When you are glad to see someone, do you hold hands tightly or not? Do you like it when someone grasps your hand firmly? You want to like it, but maybe you really do not. You have to know something to like it, and if you do not know it, then how can you like it? Be honest! If your husband loves you, you do not need anything else. You live clinging tightly to your husband. It is always great to see a man and a woman firmly holding hands, especially when the man’s hand is as rough as a cow’s front hoof. When watching movies, we enjoy seeing scenes like that. If the woman says to the man, “Oh, you have pretty hands,” the man will be offended. This is how things are. Love is eternal. Love is united, not divided. You become one. When a man and a woman become a couple and love each other, they are bonded together. Of course this does not happen literally, but in heart they reach a level even higher than this. That is God’s love. If you live with such love, will you be united or not? Think about it. Everything is destined to become one. (Blessed Family -1062)
When a man and a woman fall in love, all kinds of things happen, right? But if you find a way to know God’s love and really taste it, then His love cannot be compared to anything in this world. If there is someone who has tasted this love, no amount of difficulty or sorrow can defeat him. Such a realm of absolute liberation should exist, should it not? The question is how to find it. (39-240, 1971.1.15)
God’s love can largely be divided into three great forms of love. They are parental love, conjugal love, and children’s love. The center where these three forms converge into one is God’s love. (173-278, 1975.11.23)
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