Now is the time for you to return to your mission, and I pray for God's blessing on your departure. Every person you meet at your mission may have momentous, providential connections. Each person carries dark historical grudges and the sorrows of mankind.
Men and women are quite different in personality, matters, nature, etc., but there is no separating them from each other. Man and father stand for heaven, whereas woman and mother stand for earth.
Unfortunately, there is no connection between the Absolute Being and the whole creation. So, where there is no normal connection and common purpose between human beings, and thus historical grudges cannot be resolved.
All of us know that human history began with an illicit connection between a man and a woman. Knowing about the Fall of Man, we can't comprehend the Creator desiring such an illicit connection. There is no wonder that at the end of the non-principled world, men concluded that God was dead.
Then how can it be possible for the ego to normalize its fallen illicit connection?
No connection can bring about normalizing the relationship. Inquiring into the subject of existence closely, everyone comes to recognize that it is God. If God is the subject, the universe, and man should appear from Him.
God is the sovereign of love, so there is bound a connection of love between Him and his creation. In other words, God and we are in the relation of father and son, and there has been such a connection from the beginning. Would that connection have been miserable? Consequently, the true connection is unchangeable.
Why should we want to be one forever and ever?
It is because two values are made into one. Once a man and a woman become one through eternal love centering on God, their love can't be separated; it is everlasting. The couple wishes everything within their love to be eternal around them.
Everyone wishes to keep all of their love forever. Thus, love is the source of multiplication and action and nothing can make a true relationship between man and woman, husband and wife, boy and girl, son and daughter without love.
However, is there anything for God to love in this world?
Not. There is nothing that He can love, for no illicit connection can be loved. This is the very reason why religious life has led us away from the result of illicit love.
Accordingly, the more spiritual knowledge is acquired, the less the material world means to us. The Orient set out with religious thought, while the Occident with materialistic thought. Therefore, nations higher in spirit but poorer in material will surely have their time in history.
When the end of the materialistic world draws near, the intrinsic world of spirit begins. Therefore, we desperately want to normalize our fallen, illicit connection by being born again with a true connection to God.
“Seek for the True Parents!” That is the great, strong point of our church. For True Parents, true connection and true love, the everlasting object of all things past, present, and future, regardless of generation, gender, occupation, etc., we can and should do our best.
When a nation loves the entire world with sovereign love at all costs, the entire universe will finally be under its love. You are now on the path to such a precious and noble way of life.
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