A Blog by Joshua Dragon
“The Father’s love and patience are with the child who is always ready to help Him in any way possible, and who would go anywhere for the sake of the great task to be carried out. He would long to have that son around to take care of His children and great-grandchildren. In that way His love would be multiplied through this person.” – Reverend Sun Myung Moon
For instance, let us say a father is building a big house. Neither is this father rich nor has he abundant house construction materials. However, he completes the construction after going through all kinds of difficulties; now he has a house everyone envies. On this great day, the father would reflect on his past and think of the difficulties he experienced. The happiness the father feels on this day would be in proportion to the degree of difficulties he had faced; the greater the difficulties, the greater the happiness he feels. His children, however, did not help their father during those hard times; they did not understand their father and distanced themselves from him instead. Now let us say that these children join their father to celebrate this great day together. How would the father treat his children? Would he say, “You are the children I love, so please join me in this celebration today?” On the contrary, he would reminisce on his sorrowful past upon seeing his children. Even if the children were to regret not having helped their father, we already know that they would cause the father much pain and sadness on that great day.
In order to complete the purpose of the entire providence, God, just like this father, immensely suffered and went through infinite pain as he advanced the providence. Unfortunately, the numerous people in the position of children did not collaborate with God. As God overcame hills of difficulties, one after another, he hoped that mankind would work with him. God needed companions.
God cannot surmount those hills without companions. God cannot go beyond a hill representing an individual cross without the companionship of people. In the same way, he cannot go over hills representing a family, a people, a national or a global cross without a companion. God, who is carrying the responsibility of the global cross, cannot go over this hill without a sacrificial substantial being that invests maximum effort with the determination to fulfill his or her filial duty toward God. We must therefore know that God has been hoping for sons and daughters who can work with him because of such a course of restoration.
Someday the purpose of restoration will conclude and God’s will for the providence will be realized. When that happens, the day God can truly feel happy will come. How would God feel when he ushers in this day? Not only would he look pathetic from the numerous hardships he had to go through but he would also look wretched and miserable from the pain he received as he suffered by bearing millions and trillions of crosses. You must understand that God had to go through this process in order to welcome this day.
If you are to join him on this day, you must be able to feel God’s heartrending sorrow as he underwent hardship all throughout history in order to usher in this one day, to liberate all human beings and to enable human beings to have happy lives, even if you did not directly collaborate with God’s work.
You must ready your hearts to weep and be contrite in front of God who has ushered in this day. You should feel angry and repent saying, why didn’t I get to know you? How was I unaware of your worried heart?
If you truly repent about your past lives, a condition for God to sympathize with you may materialize. In other words, you should not join God on this great day if you do not have such a heart. That explains the Bible verse Matthew 7:21, “Not everyone who says to me, `Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only lie who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.”
We are heading forward in order to meet God. Everyone hopes to meet a God of joy; however, we should never forget that God had to go through all kinds of hardships and sorrow to appear as the God of joy.
What God did you attend as you followed the path toward the crucifixion? You should be able to do anything to share in God’s sorrow when he is sad, comfort him when he is lonely, lament over his misery, comfort him for the persecutions he suffered, and do everything to carry the cross along that path instead of God. If such sons and daughters exist, God will call them and set them up in front of the entire creation and the entire universe when this joyful day is ushered in. Instead of making this joyful day his, lie would want to make it into his children’s. We must be able to understand that this expresses God’s heart.
God has been looking for such sons and daughters for this reason and has been hoping for siblings, families, nations the world and the cosmos to fill with such children. As people who understand this and stand on the frontline of restoration work, we must know the immensity of the responsibility we carry. To become children that attend such a God, humanity must desire to attend God and we must treat all human beings as brothers and sisters. Become models in attending God and set up at least a condition by which humanity can comfort God and have the desire to dissolve God’s sadness. A person with those qualities is God’s son or God’s daughter.
Let us become children who remain faithful until the day of victory
Reverend Sun Myung Moon
April 14, 1964
“When trees grow thickly on a hillock, differentiating between a pine tree and a spindle tree is difficult. However, when autumn and winter comes, the different trees become easily recognizable. Winter arouses hopes; it symbolizes meeting a new destiny or connection. In the same way, no matter how difficult an environment may be or whether one is stabbed in the world of death, if a person loves humanity without wavering, that person can represent Heaven.” – Reverend Sun Myung Moon
It is in the family that our pure true love grows and is perfected. The true family is the initial stage on which the different types of love, between true parents, true husbands and wives, true children and true brothers and sisters are put into practice and jointly grow to fruition.
The true family is the fundamental nucleus of a peaceful world, for it is here that we learn about God’s true love through the love of true parents; it is here that we are trained by means of the true love of true brothers and sisters to acquire a universal love for the true nation, true world and all humanity.
Not only that, but the true family is the basic unit of historical linkage, for it is through true love being handed down from parent to child that the generations of the past, present and future are linked together in a consistent value system.
Youth for the True Family, Nation and World
Reverend Sun Myung Moon
November 27-30, 1997
Dear Father,
You, who has never left me,
never, not even for a second,
who trusted me,
when I was down,
who embraced me,
when I felt alone,
who nurtured me,
when I was starving,
all those years,
You cradled me,
if needed,
You cried for me,
when I was in pain,
You laughed with me,
when I enjoyed the life,
You have Blessed me,
more than once,
You stood beside me,
always,
this prayer is for You.
Thank you,
for not giving up on me,
thank you,
for teaching me,
thank you,
for guiding me,
thank you,
for loving me!
I have learned,
how cruel the world was with You,
I have learned,
how ignorantly your children abandoned You,
I have learned,
how much You have been working for Your Dream,
I have learned,
how anguishing the path has been.
Please, try not be sad any longer,
please, try to see the efforts by us,
please, try to feel our changing heart,
please, try to trust again, in us.
We make mistakes,
I have made plenty,
A lot I am still unaware of,
I will do better,
promise to You,
we will do better,
I promise to You.
Look at me, look at us,
here we are at last,
Your True Child showed,
the pattern we follow,
and as He hasn’t given up,
we won’t hesitate,
turning our stubbornness,
into perseverance.
I pray for You,
as I’m praying now,
please, believe and have faith in us,
just a little bit longer.
As You haven’t given up on us,
we will never retreat,
in loving absolutely,
pursuing the Ideal.
And I can tell You this,
even if I’m the last one,
I won’t stop loving You,
with my heart and deeds.
Please, Father,
hear this prayer,
please!
We will live together, one day!
-JD-
(from the book: Pray with me)
Awake little bird
awake little thing
look up and see
the Sun is shining
grassblades around
are holding dew
for you
Awake little bird
awake little thing
here is the morning
gentle breeze
is waiting
to fly to the sky
with you
Awake little bird
awake little thing
children are playing
laughing around
Bless them today
with your
prayerful song
-Joshua Dragon-
(from the book: Pray with me)
Today, a begging elder brother
was falling in the street
his knees kept him away
hitting the ground
Today, a begging elder brother
was sobbing in the street
his tears cleaned
his tormented face
Today, a begging elder brother
was chanting in the street
a prayer for all of us
to be saved
Today, a begging elder brother
was struggling in the street
trying to forget the aching hunger
trying to forget his own needs
Today, a begging elder brother
was asking in the street
where is my heart
do I know where Heaven is
-JD-
Love power is the power which can make the dead person want to live and the living person want to die. In other words, if you love your husband and he says something detrimental to you, you may want to die because of that one particular word. On the other hand, if a husband says loving words to his dying wife, then those words can make his wife want to live. This is the power of love. Do you understand? Love power can do anything.
True Ancestor And True Nation
Reverend Sun Myung Moon
February 5, 1995
