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The Sixth Teaching Learning to Trust Again |
Learning to Trust Again
Saturday, April 30, 1994
Bolshevo, Moscow Region
Everyone lives life either feeling they can trust or not. When you trust another person, you offer to them your mind and your soul. Everybody wants to trust. Unless you can trust, you cannot receive. And because all people want to receive God’s love, grace, forgiveness, we must learn to trust again. Originally, trusting would not be a question, for all people were to treat each other with goodness, and goodness would never be betrayed. When one feels betrayed, one goes inside their own soul and hides for many years. The question is asked, who can I trust, who can I give my life to, to whom can I open my heart again? Nobody wants to hide all their life and live in silence. If I live in silence, who will hear my crying, who can answer my deep desire?
To meet God, you must write a letter. In your letter you say, “Nobody hears me, nobody understands me; I live in silence crying. In this silence, in this crying, my heart grows weak; my heart begins to feel hopeless.” In your letter the ink is not blue, but the ink is filled with your tears, hoping that an answer will come to you. But you send the letter without an address. The envelope has no printing as to where it should go. Take the envelope, put it into the mailbox. You do not know if the letter will be received by the person you sent it to. In that letter you give all your mind and heart, but you don’t know if it will be received because you didn’t put the address on it. Why did you put the envelope in the mailbox without a stamp and without an address?
The desire in your heart is so strong, you believe by the power of your heart that the letter will reach the person you sent it to. In this world you must have an address, but in spirit world the address is the depth of heart. It is inside the heart, the impulse, the desire of the heart that carries all communication in spirit world. The stronger the heart, the faster the letter goes. But you put the envelope on the mailbox with no address, only with the power of your heart. This means you had faith your letter would be received without an address. You have a letter in your heart even though you didn’t write it. Already I see the letter in your heart. You are asking the question, “Into whose heart can I trust my life that my life will be better?” and God receives your letter. And He reads the letter, and He takes out His pen, and He begins to write. What will He say to you? What should the answer to your letter be without an address? And then God says, “I do not need to write a letter.” He just sends your letter back and signs His name on the bottom. This means that God is saying this in His answer. “Who can I trust? Who can I give my life to? I cry in silence, but nobody understands. I have the same question you have, where to rest my life”, for God is searching as much as you are, wanting as much as you are. For this reason, God’s children must also take care of God, for God has been crying for a million years, searching for a million years, wanting to give His life to someone for a million years. Who should that be? As much as one asks, “Who can I trust?” God asks, “Can I trust you? Can I come to you and in your arms rest my painful life?” This is God’s letter to all the world. “Can I sleep in your arms? Who will open their arms that I can sleep and trust?”
For this reason, in Divine Principle, in order to meet God, you need the foundation of faith. Without faith how can one live? For all people ask the question, “Whom should I trust?” If I have always been betrayed, how can I open my heart?” The foundation of faith is learning to trust again. Because Lucifer[i] attacked Eve and destroyed love, one wonders, “Where is love? I cannot give or receive love because Lucifer attacked Eve.” Therefore God is looking to restore the love that Lucifer destroyed. God looks all over the world to see if there is any love left, and He finds that there isn’t so much. Therefore, faith must be restored first so that one can love again. And because the greatest desire is to be loved, you can’t live without that desire, therefore, you must have faith, or you cannot live. For each day you wake up, immediately inside everyone wants to be loved. If you are not loved, what will you do? One must believe, maybe not today, this month, this year, someday I will be loved; someday somebody will be true. Someday love will come again. If one loses his faith, one loses his heart. The heart seeks happiness through love. Therefore, I say, keep your faith; always believe that love will come one day. And if you keep your faith, you will learn to trust again. If you continue to believe that… one day, love will come. It will meet you.
The long winter is so cold, so cold that you feel as if spring will never come. But it does. Eventually spring does come. Then how shall you live through the winter? Internally, how should you think to survive the winter that you will still be alive for the spring season to meet God? There is still life during the winter, isn’t there? Squirrels run about the trees. You see them collecting nuts every now and then. It is not much of a life but there is life during the winter. You can sit inside and be sad or you can go outside and enjoy the snow. Go inside of yourself and make a choice on how you will experience the winter season of not being loved. During that winter season, write your letter. You feel not loved. So, you write your letter without an address.
There was a woman whom nobody liked, and no one loved. She went into town to speak to the mayor and said, “Please help me, for nobody pays any attention to me in this town.” She did not get an answer. She went back the next day. “Please help me! Nobody cares about me.” Again, she was sent home. Again, in innocence, she went back to the mayor, “Please would you help me?” and the mayor said to himself, “I don’t care about people; I am basically a selfish man, but I will help this woman because she never gives up.” Now, if this mayor will help the woman, how much more would God help those who constantly ask Him for help? She wouldn’t give up. She came to the mayor with an innocent heart, pure, without shame, asking for help, and he did respond.
Would not God respond more powerfully being a parent, caring? Yourself, if your friend asks you for food, would you not give a little food to your friend? You might struggle because it is your last piece, but would you not say, “Take a little bit”? And how grateful your friend is to get a little bit. Then asking God, would not God give more than what you gave to your friend? Therefore, to believe again, to trust again, and to have faith again is the beginning of springtime. But you don’t experience spring because you are in the winter. Your heart is cold. You do not feel love. It is the winter, not the spring. I meet a person; I love this person, but he does not believe it. I give a gift to the other person; still the person does not trust me. What shall be done? I have given a gift to a person, and the person felt so uncomfortable, the person was embarrassed to receive the gift. Why? He feels uncomfortable when a gift is given because he doesn’t feel worthy to receive a gift. His shame, his guilt is so great, he feels he should be punished instead of being loved. This person says, “You are giving me a gift to use me or to get something back from me.” He doesn’t trust because of his own shame and guilt and damaged life. What should this person do, live his whole life rejecting gifts and love, because he feels damaged? He cannot believe it is love. He cannot believe it is true. He believes, “If I accept this gift, will you betray me?” He cannot accept this gift. Whoever has been betrayed in life thinks betrayal will come again. And it may happen. So, what can we do if we are betrayed ten times, and the eleventh betrayal is on its way? When you are betrayed the eleventh time, and still you say, “Even if I am betrayed, I will still be good to you.” All your life you are betrayed, but still, all you do is to give goodness to others.
If you do this, then God says, “This is a person I trust.” Why? For God says, “You now have lived My life.” For the life of God is a life of always being betrayed and not being loved. The life of God is a life of wanting to receive love, but nobody would love Him. Wanting to surrender into someone’s arms and each time He was dropped on the floor like a child dropped on the floor. So, in your life the more pain, betrayal you experience, the closer you can draw to God because that is the life of God’s history, His story of life. God cried, and no one heard. He sent letter after letter, and no one responded. Did not God send the prophets one after one after one? This was God’s letter to mankind. Who answered? And then God sent His son, and His son was killed. Who has waited the longest for a response? It is you or God? Yes, you have been alive for 20, 30, 40 years, but God has waited a million years for a letter. So, who is in the position not to trust, you or God? It is much more God who should feel He can’t trust. Yet, God’s very heart is to trust and every day He wakes up in the morning and says, “I will trust and love again.” You see, this is the nature of God. To be betrayed every day and still God wakes up and says, “Who can I trust today? Who can I have faith in today?” Looking, “Who can I trust, have faith in? I will trust everyone, I will love everyone, and I will come to everyone.” This is God’s answer.
God is this woman in the town, that woman who is crying, saying, “Nobody in the town cares for me. I am rejected. Nobody is interested in me.” God is that woman. And then God goes to the mayor and says, “Please, please, help me! I want to be loved and accepted in this town.” God is the woman going to all of you asking that He may be helped in His own town. Would you help that old woman, asking you for help? Would you do that? You have seen in the streets an old woman trying to go to the store, barely able to make it. Can you not feel that she needs help after a life of hardship? That is God in the street with no home, going to the store for a little food to continue his life. That is Jesus when he fell under his cross carrying the weight of the world and the women and the men were watching Jesus, bleeding on the way, crying and crying and crying. Jesus said to them, “Do not cry for me.” Even then he was not thinking about himself, not wanting tears for himself, even though he was dying on the way, still he was thinking about you. Even in the last breath before going to spirit world, Jesus looks down and says to a man, “Take care of my mother.” Even in the final moments he is thinking about other people’s future, even when he had no future himself. Not being loved, not being cared for, no one to accept him, still he was thinking about the future of everyone else. And then the greatest statement, “Forgive them, Father, they do not understand what they are doing.” So then, where is the greatest betrayal? Is it not in Jesus’ life, now completely betrayed, no one to love him, in his own neighborhood? He thinks, “Please forgive them Father.” Therefore, the greatest love that the man dying with no future completely rejected, says, “I promise you, today, you will be with me in Paradise.” While dying, it did not look like much of a paradise. Therefore, you must have faith that even in your hearts, should you feel that you are dying, you felt betrayed, nobody loves you, I assure you, Paradise will come.
Whoever has felt betrayed, suffered, unloved, has lived the life of God. By realizing this you can draw closer to God and God can draw close to you. You can embrace and hug each other. Your tears and God’s tears will mix together. Should you do this every day, God will follow you around, and God will hug you, and want to mix His tears with yours.
So then in your country, so many years of suffering, would not God love and trust you, because is that not the life of God? In silence, not being able to speak, not being able to express, not being able to act for so many years, nobody there to answer, and nobody was there for God. So, I assure you, God knows you and your history. And now the time of your liberation is here. But you must trust and have faith that you are loved and cared for. Only by trusting and having faith can your heart be opened to receive God’s love otherwise God gives the gift, and you cannot receive it because inside, you don’t believe that you are worthy. Do not miss the opportunity. Watch carefully, for the love of God is here.
A child grows up in a family with no father. What will she think of herself? She does not have the experience of a father’s love because he was never there. She lives her life not trusting men. Therefore, this is the world growing up, not knowing True Parents[ii]. Then True Parents come, and people may not trust their True Parents because they didn’t have True Parents of love themselves. And you can miss the moment when God brings His love through True Parents because you couldn’t open your heart, because you couldn’t trust. Therefore, trust again, have faith again. This is the offering in the foundation of faith. To learn to trust again. And if you can have faith in the truth which you hear today, and faith in the truth of Divine Principle, you will have trust growing in your heart, and the more you have faith, the more you have trust, the closer love will grow to you.
Why are the birds singing outside? Have they lost their minds now that there is little love in the world? What are they singing? If they have something to sing about, should not the children of God sing? How much more should your song be? They seem to be happy with each day just gathering a little food. This is what we should learn. Each day is sufficient. Each day has enough to worry about. And if you live each day 100 percent, you will hear the birds singing to you, because the birds will say, “Now you understand.” Live each day fully and the day will be fulfilled. And if you worry about tomorrow, you may forget to live today. And tomorrow will never come if you forget to live today. Therefore, have trust that each day God’s love will come to visit you. The next day will come soon enough.
The lesson is that you must learn to feed the ducks. It is true. They want to be loved also. You go down to the lake and you feed the ducks little pieces of food. Do not worry about who sees you, who loves you, who praises you. You’re feeding the ducks. The ducks will love you. If you live your life so that you can gain people’s love, your heart will never be fulfilled. If you live your life and you do things so that you can get attention and attraction of others, you will not be fulfilled. For the fulfillment, which truly no one can take away, is when you know and experience that God lives inside you when you feed the ducks. Then, when you go into the world and you give your heart to others and you teach others and you are rejected, you do not lose yourself. You teach and care for others not so that they will love and accept you. You teach and love others so that their lives will be helped, not your life. When you teach and serve, so that the people will serve you back, then internally you are saying the reason you teach and serve is because you are empty, and you need love. Then, when others know what you are doing, they will use you and use you and use you, because you are serving and loving for the sake of yourself, and they will use you because you are addicted to what you are doing. If I know this person is serving me not because this person is true but because they need my love, I can keep you addicted because they must have my love, therefore, I can keep you addicted and serving me as a slave. Do you understand? Therefore, love purely, serve purely, and speak with a pure heart. And then nobody can take anything from you. And the peace you will have in your heart, the world can never take away.
Ask, and you will receive. Seek, and you will find. Knock on the door, and it will open one day. Do you know what to ask for? Do you know what to seek and to look for? Do you know if when the door opens you will step through it? Therefore, when you ask with a pure heart, ask for that which will bring you close to God. And when you look, do not look outside but look inside your own soul for what you want. The looking outside never ends, for the kingdom of God is inside your own heart. And when you knock on that door and the door opens, you must be ready by faith to step through and be responsible and trusting. This is the foundation of faith. That you ask, that you seek, and that you knock, and your asking is for the right thing. You’re seeking and you’re looking inside your own heart. And when the door opens, you step inside. This is the offering to God in which trust is restored. Do you understand?
Man left God. Therefore, mankind must step back to God first. Even though God’s heart is yearning, searching for all of you, to meet God you must take the first step. Do you understand? Open your hearts. Open your minds. Do not stop but come forward. And be received by God’s love. Be cared for by God’s love. Let heaven run its hands through your hair. Let your face feel the warmth of the touch of God’s love. Let the blanket of heaven be thrown over your shoulders to embrace you. Come home. And rest. And peace will be in your hearts. Where is home? It is where you have parents. Therefore, the one True Parents are here, and you have found home where you may rest your souls.
ENDNOTES:
[i] The process of self-deception or a spiritual being, using words to gain access to create demise.
[ii] The substantial manifestation of a couple whose marriage is grafted into God’s direct lineage.
Saturday, April 30, 1994
Bolshevo, Moscow Region
Everyone lives life either feeling they can trust or not. When you trust another person, you offer to them your mind and your soul. Everybody wants to trust. Unless you can trust, you cannot receive. And because all people want to receive God’s love, grace, forgiveness, we must learn to trust again. Originally, trusting would not be a question, for all people were to treat each other with goodness, and goodness would never be betrayed. When one feels betrayed, one goes inside their own soul and hides for many years. The question is asked, who can I trust, who can I give my life to, to whom can I open my heart again? Nobody wants to hide all their life and live in silence. If I live in silence, who will hear my crying, who can answer my deep desire?
To meet God, you must write a letter. In your letter you say, “Nobody hears me, nobody understands me; I live in silence crying. In this silence, in this crying, my heart grows weak; my heart begins to feel hopeless.” In your letter the ink is not blue, but the ink is filled with your tears, hoping that an answer will come to you. But you send the letter without an address. The envelope has no printing as to where it should go. Take the envelope, put it into the mailbox. You do not know if the letter will be received by the person you sent it to. In that letter you give all your mind and heart, but you don’t know if it will be received because you didn’t put the address on it. Why did you put the envelope in the mailbox without a stamp and without an address?
The desire in your heart is so strong, you believe by the power of your heart that the letter will reach the person you sent it to. In this world you must have an address, but in spirit world the address is the depth of heart. It is inside the heart, the impulse, the desire of the heart that carries all communication in spirit world. The stronger the heart, the faster the letter goes. But you put the envelope on the mailbox with no address, only with the power of your heart. This means you had faith your letter would be received without an address. You have a letter in your heart even though you didn’t write it. Already I see the letter in your heart. You are asking the question, “Into whose heart can I trust my life that my life will be better?” and God receives your letter. And He reads the letter, and He takes out His pen, and He begins to write. What will He say to you? What should the answer to your letter be without an address? And then God says, “I do not need to write a letter.” He just sends your letter back and signs His name on the bottom. This means that God is saying this in His answer. “Who can I trust? Who can I give my life to? I cry in silence, but nobody understands. I have the same question you have, where to rest my life”, for God is searching as much as you are, wanting as much as you are. For this reason, God’s children must also take care of God, for God has been crying for a million years, searching for a million years, wanting to give His life to someone for a million years. Who should that be? As much as one asks, “Who can I trust?” God asks, “Can I trust you? Can I come to you and in your arms rest my painful life?” This is God’s letter to all the world. “Can I sleep in your arms? Who will open their arms that I can sleep and trust?”
For this reason, in Divine Principle, in order to meet God, you need the foundation of faith. Without faith how can one live? For all people ask the question, “Whom should I trust?” If I have always been betrayed, how can I open my heart?” The foundation of faith is learning to trust again. Because Lucifer[i] attacked Eve and destroyed love, one wonders, “Where is love? I cannot give or receive love because Lucifer attacked Eve.” Therefore God is looking to restore the love that Lucifer destroyed. God looks all over the world to see if there is any love left, and He finds that there isn’t so much. Therefore, faith must be restored first so that one can love again. And because the greatest desire is to be loved, you can’t live without that desire, therefore, you must have faith, or you cannot live. For each day you wake up, immediately inside everyone wants to be loved. If you are not loved, what will you do? One must believe, maybe not today, this month, this year, someday I will be loved; someday somebody will be true. Someday love will come again. If one loses his faith, one loses his heart. The heart seeks happiness through love. Therefore, I say, keep your faith; always believe that love will come one day. And if you keep your faith, you will learn to trust again. If you continue to believe that… one day, love will come. It will meet you.
The long winter is so cold, so cold that you feel as if spring will never come. But it does. Eventually spring does come. Then how shall you live through the winter? Internally, how should you think to survive the winter that you will still be alive for the spring season to meet God? There is still life during the winter, isn’t there? Squirrels run about the trees. You see them collecting nuts every now and then. It is not much of a life but there is life during the winter. You can sit inside and be sad or you can go outside and enjoy the snow. Go inside of yourself and make a choice on how you will experience the winter season of not being loved. During that winter season, write your letter. You feel not loved. So, you write your letter without an address.
There was a woman whom nobody liked, and no one loved. She went into town to speak to the mayor and said, “Please help me, for nobody pays any attention to me in this town.” She did not get an answer. She went back the next day. “Please help me! Nobody cares about me.” Again, she was sent home. Again, in innocence, she went back to the mayor, “Please would you help me?” and the mayor said to himself, “I don’t care about people; I am basically a selfish man, but I will help this woman because she never gives up.” Now, if this mayor will help the woman, how much more would God help those who constantly ask Him for help? She wouldn’t give up. She came to the mayor with an innocent heart, pure, without shame, asking for help, and he did respond.
Would not God respond more powerfully being a parent, caring? Yourself, if your friend asks you for food, would you not give a little food to your friend? You might struggle because it is your last piece, but would you not say, “Take a little bit”? And how grateful your friend is to get a little bit. Then asking God, would not God give more than what you gave to your friend? Therefore, to believe again, to trust again, and to have faith again is the beginning of springtime. But you don’t experience spring because you are in the winter. Your heart is cold. You do not feel love. It is the winter, not the spring. I meet a person; I love this person, but he does not believe it. I give a gift to the other person; still the person does not trust me. What shall be done? I have given a gift to a person, and the person felt so uncomfortable, the person was embarrassed to receive the gift. Why? He feels uncomfortable when a gift is given because he doesn’t feel worthy to receive a gift. His shame, his guilt is so great, he feels he should be punished instead of being loved. This person says, “You are giving me a gift to use me or to get something back from me.” He doesn’t trust because of his own shame and guilt and damaged life. What should this person do, live his whole life rejecting gifts and love, because he feels damaged? He cannot believe it is love. He cannot believe it is true. He believes, “If I accept this gift, will you betray me?” He cannot accept this gift. Whoever has been betrayed in life thinks betrayal will come again. And it may happen. So, what can we do if we are betrayed ten times, and the eleventh betrayal is on its way? When you are betrayed the eleventh time, and still you say, “Even if I am betrayed, I will still be good to you.” All your life you are betrayed, but still, all you do is to give goodness to others.
If you do this, then God says, “This is a person I trust.” Why? For God says, “You now have lived My life.” For the life of God is a life of always being betrayed and not being loved. The life of God is a life of wanting to receive love, but nobody would love Him. Wanting to surrender into someone’s arms and each time He was dropped on the floor like a child dropped on the floor. So, in your life the more pain, betrayal you experience, the closer you can draw to God because that is the life of God’s history, His story of life. God cried, and no one heard. He sent letter after letter, and no one responded. Did not God send the prophets one after one after one? This was God’s letter to mankind. Who answered? And then God sent His son, and His son was killed. Who has waited the longest for a response? It is you or God? Yes, you have been alive for 20, 30, 40 years, but God has waited a million years for a letter. So, who is in the position not to trust, you or God? It is much more God who should feel He can’t trust. Yet, God’s very heart is to trust and every day He wakes up in the morning and says, “I will trust and love again.” You see, this is the nature of God. To be betrayed every day and still God wakes up and says, “Who can I trust today? Who can I have faith in today?” Looking, “Who can I trust, have faith in? I will trust everyone, I will love everyone, and I will come to everyone.” This is God’s answer.
God is this woman in the town, that woman who is crying, saying, “Nobody in the town cares for me. I am rejected. Nobody is interested in me.” God is that woman. And then God goes to the mayor and says, “Please, please, help me! I want to be loved and accepted in this town.” God is the woman going to all of you asking that He may be helped in His own town. Would you help that old woman, asking you for help? Would you do that? You have seen in the streets an old woman trying to go to the store, barely able to make it. Can you not feel that she needs help after a life of hardship? That is God in the street with no home, going to the store for a little food to continue his life. That is Jesus when he fell under his cross carrying the weight of the world and the women and the men were watching Jesus, bleeding on the way, crying and crying and crying. Jesus said to them, “Do not cry for me.” Even then he was not thinking about himself, not wanting tears for himself, even though he was dying on the way, still he was thinking about you. Even in the last breath before going to spirit world, Jesus looks down and says to a man, “Take care of my mother.” Even in the final moments he is thinking about other people’s future, even when he had no future himself. Not being loved, not being cared for, no one to accept him, still he was thinking about the future of everyone else. And then the greatest statement, “Forgive them, Father, they do not understand what they are doing.” So then, where is the greatest betrayal? Is it not in Jesus’ life, now completely betrayed, no one to love him, in his own neighborhood? He thinks, “Please forgive them Father.” Therefore, the greatest love that the man dying with no future completely rejected, says, “I promise you, today, you will be with me in Paradise.” While dying, it did not look like much of a paradise. Therefore, you must have faith that even in your hearts, should you feel that you are dying, you felt betrayed, nobody loves you, I assure you, Paradise will come.
Whoever has felt betrayed, suffered, unloved, has lived the life of God. By realizing this you can draw closer to God and God can draw close to you. You can embrace and hug each other. Your tears and God’s tears will mix together. Should you do this every day, God will follow you around, and God will hug you, and want to mix His tears with yours.
So then in your country, so many years of suffering, would not God love and trust you, because is that not the life of God? In silence, not being able to speak, not being able to express, not being able to act for so many years, nobody there to answer, and nobody was there for God. So, I assure you, God knows you and your history. And now the time of your liberation is here. But you must trust and have faith that you are loved and cared for. Only by trusting and having faith can your heart be opened to receive God’s love otherwise God gives the gift, and you cannot receive it because inside, you don’t believe that you are worthy. Do not miss the opportunity. Watch carefully, for the love of God is here.
A child grows up in a family with no father. What will she think of herself? She does not have the experience of a father’s love because he was never there. She lives her life not trusting men. Therefore, this is the world growing up, not knowing True Parents[ii]. Then True Parents come, and people may not trust their True Parents because they didn’t have True Parents of love themselves. And you can miss the moment when God brings His love through True Parents because you couldn’t open your heart, because you couldn’t trust. Therefore, trust again, have faith again. This is the offering in the foundation of faith. To learn to trust again. And if you can have faith in the truth which you hear today, and faith in the truth of Divine Principle, you will have trust growing in your heart, and the more you have faith, the more you have trust, the closer love will grow to you.
Why are the birds singing outside? Have they lost their minds now that there is little love in the world? What are they singing? If they have something to sing about, should not the children of God sing? How much more should your song be? They seem to be happy with each day just gathering a little food. This is what we should learn. Each day is sufficient. Each day has enough to worry about. And if you live each day 100 percent, you will hear the birds singing to you, because the birds will say, “Now you understand.” Live each day fully and the day will be fulfilled. And if you worry about tomorrow, you may forget to live today. And tomorrow will never come if you forget to live today. Therefore, have trust that each day God’s love will come to visit you. The next day will come soon enough.
The lesson is that you must learn to feed the ducks. It is true. They want to be loved also. You go down to the lake and you feed the ducks little pieces of food. Do not worry about who sees you, who loves you, who praises you. You’re feeding the ducks. The ducks will love you. If you live your life so that you can gain people’s love, your heart will never be fulfilled. If you live your life and you do things so that you can get attention and attraction of others, you will not be fulfilled. For the fulfillment, which truly no one can take away, is when you know and experience that God lives inside you when you feed the ducks. Then, when you go into the world and you give your heart to others and you teach others and you are rejected, you do not lose yourself. You teach and care for others not so that they will love and accept you. You teach and love others so that their lives will be helped, not your life. When you teach and serve, so that the people will serve you back, then internally you are saying the reason you teach and serve is because you are empty, and you need love. Then, when others know what you are doing, they will use you and use you and use you, because you are serving and loving for the sake of yourself, and they will use you because you are addicted to what you are doing. If I know this person is serving me not because this person is true but because they need my love, I can keep you addicted because they must have my love, therefore, I can keep you addicted and serving me as a slave. Do you understand? Therefore, love purely, serve purely, and speak with a pure heart. And then nobody can take anything from you. And the peace you will have in your heart, the world can never take away.
Ask, and you will receive. Seek, and you will find. Knock on the door, and it will open one day. Do you know what to ask for? Do you know what to seek and to look for? Do you know if when the door opens you will step through it? Therefore, when you ask with a pure heart, ask for that which will bring you close to God. And when you look, do not look outside but look inside your own soul for what you want. The looking outside never ends, for the kingdom of God is inside your own heart. And when you knock on that door and the door opens, you must be ready by faith to step through and be responsible and trusting. This is the foundation of faith. That you ask, that you seek, and that you knock, and your asking is for the right thing. You’re seeking and you’re looking inside your own heart. And when the door opens, you step inside. This is the offering to God in which trust is restored. Do you understand?
Man left God. Therefore, mankind must step back to God first. Even though God’s heart is yearning, searching for all of you, to meet God you must take the first step. Do you understand? Open your hearts. Open your minds. Do not stop but come forward. And be received by God’s love. Be cared for by God’s love. Let heaven run its hands through your hair. Let your face feel the warmth of the touch of God’s love. Let the blanket of heaven be thrown over your shoulders to embrace you. Come home. And rest. And peace will be in your hearts. Where is home? It is where you have parents. Therefore, the one True Parents are here, and you have found home where you may rest your souls.
ENDNOTES:
[i] The process of self-deception or a spiritual being, using words to gain access to create demise.
[ii] The substantial manifestation of a couple whose marriage is grafted into God’s direct lineage.