21. Thank You For Your Responses And Support (September 15, 2005)

In Jin Moon
September 15, 2005

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Thank you for your responses and support. It's heartwarming and encouraging to see that so many of you want to help. Please don't apologize because you think that you can contribute only a little. No donation is too small or insignificant.

Just the other day, I was having a conversation with my eight-year-old son. He asked why I needed to raise five million. I told him that I need three to get his other grandpa out of prison for reasons that I've explained to my little one earlier and two more to settle all the claims against his grandpa, including legal bills.

He then asked how long it would take to raise the amount needed and how many people would have to help in order to reach our goal. I told Shin Pyung that one brother did the math and said if everyone donated a hundred dollars we would need fifty-thousand to participate. I asked Shin Pyung if he would like to do a little math exercise to see what the numbers come out to if we played around with the variables x and y. This is the result of his math problem.

If a person donates $100, we need 50,000 people.

$500 - 10,000
$1000 - 5,000
$2000 - 2,500
$2500 - 2,000

What did Shin Pyung learn from this exercise? He learned that we can reach our goal if everyone participates. He also concluded that the speed with which we can free his grandpa depends on the amount donated by each individual.

Thank you to all who have participated thus far...

InJin 

20. Save Dr. Bo Hi Pak (August 2005)

In Jin Moon
August 2005 InJin Nim's Letter to Members

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

I feel compelled to write this letter concerning Dr. Pak's incarceration due to the tragic nature of the case and the strange turn of events that is keeping him in prison. One thing that I'd like to make clear from the beginning is that Dr. Pak has neither asked nor encouraged me to write this letter on his behalf. Frankly, I have not spoken to him for the past several years. But I know, having spoken to different members of his family, that Dr. Pak is truly sorry for the events that led up to his arrest and for bringing shame and embarrassment to his family, the brothers and sisters of the movement, and my own family.

Dr. Pak knows that he has made a terrible mistake in following bad investment advice from people with criminal motives and he takes full responsibility for his mistakes. If reprieve is not forthcoming, he will carry out his sentence faithfully to the end. After all, first and foremost, Dr. Pak is a soldier. He will live and die on whatever battlefield he finds himself. He has faithfully served his country during the Korean War as a Colonel and he has continued that service for God and True Parents over the course of five decades. Regardless of what battles await him, Dr. Pak will continue to live and fight for the cause that his heart has chosen with dignity, courage, and honor.

As a sister to my brother Dr. Pak, however, I cannot be at peace knowing that a beloved leader of our heavenly community is needlessly behind bars. Regardless of how people might feel about the circumstances that led to his arrest, the bottom line is that he is one of our own. How can we be a movement that turns our head away from a brother in need of our forgiveness, help, and love? Should we not forgive our brother's lapse in judgment? Let us not forget my father's call to forgive, love, and unite during the Watergate scandals in order to help President Nixon survive his Presidency. My father understood that Nixon was more than a man. He was a symbol of this nation. Likewise, Dr. Pak is not just a man. For many, he is a symbol of a faithful public servant carrying out his duties as a prominent elder of our church. He is the face of Rev. Moon's most loyal disciple.

Thus, Dr. Pak's embarrassment is our own and his incarceration is an embarrassment to my father, Rev. Moon. Who can claim that he or she has never made mistakes in the course of his or her life? No one is perfect in that sense. Dr. Pak made a terrible mistake entrusting his faith in certain church members who introduced him to the fraudulent deal and believing that he possessed immunity from harm because he is God's and True Parent's disciple. As naïve as this may sound, it could have happened to anyone. It could have happened to either you or me.

As a daughter of Rev. Moon, moreover, I cannot sit quietly and watch the world belittle my father as a callous and an uncaring person. Ever since the first news break on Dr. Pak's situation, I have been bombarded with questions and looks of disbelief from numerous friends and associates who see my father as a man without principles for letting a loyal follower, a friend, and a member of the Reverend's family through marriage, sit and rot away in prison. They ask why my father cannot find it in himself to forgive and help his in-law. They ask why my father allows certain individuals to advise his every move to the detriment of the very religion he has founded. They say that my father is an insecure man destroying the very visible disciple who helped him, along with other faithful followers, build the church. They ask why Dr. Pak is denied the hope of forgiveness and deliverance. They ask why millions are raised and spent on the promise of buying one's salvation with no regard for thinking beyond one's immediate family and lineage. They ridicule our church's feeding frenzy in wanting to liberate ancestors when one of our Elders is trapped in prison in need of immediate and desperate liberation.

Everyone is waiting for my father to act and save my father-in-law from prison. Why should this be the burden of my father alone? Why can't we help? In fact, why can't we take care of this problem by raising the money needed to get Dr. Pak out of prison? My father is a noble man, despite the fact that his inaction makes him look like a heartless leader. A king is only as good as the advisers with whom he surrounds himself and my father is no exception. He is making the best decision with the reports and advice that are made available to him by current leaders. This is the reason why I have put together a Save DP website where anyone interested in the case can have the facts at their fingertips.

As a mother of my children, furthermore, I want to raise my children in a movement that is worthy of their respect and devotion. Our children need heroes to inspire them. The young people of our movement need first generation examples of undying loyal service to True Parents and God that our elders have shown in their life of faith. Our young ones need to see and experience the admiration and appreciation awarded to old timers of our church who have sacrificed everything for the Providence. Our children need to know that their service to God will be remembered in the twilight years of their life as a badge of honor and not as a reason for resentment and regret.

But what kind of lessons are to be gleaned from the lack of action that our church is taking in regard to Dr. Pak's predicament? The church asks members for a lifetime of loyalty and service to God and True Parents. If so, shouldn't the church take care of those who have sacrificed their lives by returning the same loyalty and service that it has receive over the years? Who wants to dedicate his or her life to a movement that uses people and tosses them aside the minute that person becomes a liability? How can we discard one of the most visible followers of our True Parents when we're in the business of salvation and redemption? If my father can forgive the dastardly crimes of Hitler, Mussolini and etc, surely Dr. Pak should be forgiven. And if not, what does it say about our church? Obviously we are not a church that puts murderers' salvation before our elder who was simply deceived by unsavory scam artists.

We must take care of our elders who have come before us. They gave their lives to the Providence and we must allow and facilitate a respectful retirement in old age. A community that does not respect its elders will be a community without an appreciation for a sense of communal history and belonging. How can we expect our children to care for us in our old age when we have not done the same for our elders? How will they learn to be any better?

There is an old adage in Korean that says God's will is spoken through the people. So then, what are we, as the people of this movement, going to say? What would God our father say to his prodigal son who has embarrassed the family? What would you say if Dr. Pak were your son, your brother or your father? Should we not as a community of believers come together and lend a helping hand?

It is precisely during trying times that bonds of love and understanding are tested. If our movement is indeed a family then we have a moral obligation to help our brother in need. We cannot sit silently, letting our inaction speak louder than words. We cannot let the world criticize our True Father as a cold and a malicious man. We cannot let our elder brother, Dr. Pak, waste away in prison.

I know that so many members want to help. They just don't know how. They thought that there was very little they could do to alter Dr. Pak's situation. But when the truth of the case was shared with different brothers and sisters of our community, I have been moved time and time again by their beautiful hearts and their willingness to do whatever it takes to liberate my father-in-law. And in the grand tradition of the True Family, I am asking for nothing short of a miracle. I believe that we can raise the funds necessary to guarantee Dr. Pak's release from prison. I believe that we can accomplish our goal without burdening my father with pleas for help.

Please contribute as generously as your heart dictates.

For the sake of this effort, I have put together a CD called Crimson Sketches. This is a home made cause-driven product, an offering from my family to help raise funds needed to save Dr. Pak. I'm not delusional in my old age to think that I'm a professional singer or a fine musician. It's just an expression of my heart, mere sketches of feelings in the course of one's life. It's not a confessional piece of work or a diary etched in song. It is what it is.

Thank you so much for your hard work over the years. We, as members of the True Family, are grateful for your sacrifice and service. I truly hope that we can pull together as a community to save Dr. Pak. I believe that the fate of this brother is in our hands.

Web Sites:

http://www.savebohipak.org/
www.crimsonsketches.com

Dr. Bo Hi Pak's Trial and Incarceration in Korea

Background

For the past several years Dr. Pak has been working on some projects to raise a large endowment fund for the continued operation of the Korean Cultural Foundation, the Little Angels and the Universal Ballet. In addition he was trying to set up a new foundation called "The Korean Peoples Unification Foundation" in order to promote and realize the dream of the peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula. He had many other ideas and programs that he wanted to realize for the spiritual and ethical revitalization of the Korean people. As anyone who is acquainted with Dr. Pak knows he is an irrepressible man of action to whom retirement or idleness is an impossibility.

For these reasons he was desperately pursuing some ill advised and ill-fated fundraising schemes introduced to him by some church members. To make a long story short Dr. Pak became a victim of international criminal scam artists who defrauded him of all of his money with the promise of huge financial support to the foundations.

When Dr. Pak's personal financial resources were exhausted he began to borrow money from people around him. When this money was also exhausted, with the aid of unscrupulous Korean middlemen, Dr. Pak borrowed large sums of money from unknown Korean businessmen. Dr. Pak also thought and believed with 100% faith that each delivery of up front money would be the last and that his dreams would be realized. Tragically this was not to be.

Arrest and Trial

On July 20, 2004 the Eastern Seoul District Prosecutor imprisoned Dr. Pak and charged him with financial fraud because he was unable to repay his debts to the Korean businessmen. Although it is true that Dr. Pak borrowed large sums of money from various businessmen and lenders in order to realize his fundraising schemes he of course was not trying to swindle them or to enrich himself.

The trial took place from August 20, 2004 to May 20, 2005, an unusually long time, because the prosecutors took so long to investigate each of the complaints and to bring an indictment.

On May 6, 2005 the prosecutor requested a 12 year prison term from the Court. This was an extraordinarily harsh requested sentence for the type of crime being tried and given the character of the defendant. Dr. Pak has never been on trial for a criminal offense before. He of course has never been convicted of any crime of any kind. He is a well known and well respected patriot and church leader who has received numerous awards from around the world. Of the 3 original creditors who filed complaints one complainant withdrew their complaint and petitioned the court to give Dr. Pak a favorable judgment. On May 20, 2005, the 3 judges on the bench handed down a conviction and a sentence of 5 years imprisonment.

The verdict is a travesty. In the Korean legal system one can be found guilty of criminal financial fraud for being unable to repay loans even though there was no intent to defraud. Everyone involved in Dr. Pak's case including the creditors acknowledge that Dr. Pak never had any intent to steal their money or to enrich himself. He never lied or deceived any of the creditors and freely told them he needed the money to send abroad to pay for the expenses of fund raising . Yet he was still found guilty of financial fraud.

Dr. Pak has appealed to the Seoul court of appeals and the case will be retried over the next four months.

What Will It Take To Get Dr. Pak Released From Prison?

In order for Dr. Pak to have the best chance to be released from prison it is necessary to make settlements with his creditors. (Several creditors have already been settled and resolved completely without criminal charges being filed.) The amount required to make settlements with all remaining creditors without receiving any discount would be about $5.0 million. Any reductions, discounts or abeyances that can be negotiated with the creditors would reduce this figure . There is a good possibility that settlements can be reached and Dr. Pak cleared of his financial difficulties and released from prison with about $3 to $4 million. Even if all the money cannot be found any sums raised and used to make settlements or paid to the court as restitution funds will help to lower the sentence and get an early release for Dr. Pak.

Dr. Pak and his family's finances have already been completely consumed and depleted. Dr. Pak's family with the support of many wonderful people, has been able to settle and eliminate many creditors already. They are working frantically now to work out arrangements with the remaining creditors but without additional finances the outlook is very bleak. Now is the time for all the people around the world who love and respect Dr. Pak to rally to his aid.

Dr. Pak has been in Korean prison for one full year already. We cannot allow such a great champion of God's providence and wonderful humanitarian to continue to suffer month after month and to be put out of commission. Not only is his incarceration a terrible waste to the world and the Korean nation especially at this important juncture of North South relations but at 75 Dr. Pak is no longer a young man and he has several medical conditions which make his incarceration dangerous.

Please pray for Dr. Pak and keep him in your mind and hearts. Get the message out to others who might be able to help. Let's create a miracle and liberate Dr. Pak from this desperate and intolerable situation.

With everyone's help Dr. Pak can be saved!

Biography of Dr. Bohi Pak

Born on August 18, 1930, Dr. Bohi Pak's life and career can only be summed up as extraordinary. Having joined the Korean army at age 19, he worked his way up the ranks and received several medals, including the Gold Star Hwa-Rang Medal for Meritorious Service and Bravery in Combat. After a decade and a half of service, he was honorably discharged in 1964 as lieutenant colonel.

In 1962, he created "The Little Angels" performing arts troupe, eventually establishing The Little Angels Arts School (later renamed Sun-Hwa Arts School). Over the next 40 years, Dr. Pak organized 37 tours, where The Little Angels performed in more than 40 nations worldwide, including an historic trip to Pyongyang, North Korea.

From the late seventies through the nineties, in addition to heading the Little Angels and Universal Ballet Company, he held several notable positions in the publishing arena as the inaugural President and Publisher of News World (later renamed the New York City Tribune), Noticias del Mundo, a New York-based, Spanish daily and the Washington Times Corporation.

Furthermore, in addition to receiving numerous medals for outstanding military service, he also received numerous Certificates of Appreciation from reputable political figures, including President Truman, President Eisenhower, President Nixon, and HRH Queen Elizabeth II. In 2002, the Republic of Korea awarded him the National Cultural Silver Metal for Contribution toward the Promotion of National Prestige.

EDUCATION AND TEACHING CAREER

1937 - 1943 Yum-Ti and Do-Go Elementary Schools

1943 - 1946 Chon-An Agricultural High School

1947 - 1950 Elementary school teacher, Do-Go Elementary School

1961 - 1965 Study part-time at the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. -

MILITARY CAREER

1950 Jun 01 Enter Korean Military Academy as a cadet.

1950 Jun 25 Sent into combat as a cadet upon the outbreak of the Korean War twenty-five days later.

1950 Oct 21 Graduate Korean Military Combined School and commissioned as a second lieutenant in Republic of Korea army.

1950 - 1952 Assigned to the 28th Regiment, 9th Division; serve as platoon leader and company commander in combat during the Korean War.

1952 March-September: study in the United States at the U.S Army Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia.

1952 - 1955 October 1952 return to Korea and serve in Korean Army Infantry School as instructor until 1955.

1955 - 1956 Study English at the Army School for Military Attaches.

1956 - 1957 Receive advanced training, U.S. Army Infantry School, Fort Benning, Georgia.

1957 - 1959 Serve as Special Assistant to Chief of U.S. Military Advisory Group, Seoul, Korea.

1960 - 1961 Serve as Special Assistant to vice Minister of Defense, Seoul, Korea.

1961 - 1964 Serve as Assistant Military Attache, Korean Embassy, Washington, D.C.

1964 Oct Honorable discharge from military service with the rank of lieutenant colonel.

PROFESSIONAL CAREER

1962 May Create "The Little Angels" Performing Arts Troupe.

1964 Sept. Found the Korean Cultural and Freedom Foundation, Inc. with the support of former President Eisenhower and Ambassador You Chan Yang.

1965-Present Inaugural President, Korean Cultural and Freedom Foundation, Inc., Washington, D.C. Principal sponsors of Radio of Free Asia, The Little Angels, and Children's Relief Fund.

1965 - 2000 Directly organize, lead and direct 37 Tours of The Little Angels to 40 nations around the globe.

1966 Aug Establish Radio of Free Asia.

1969 Dec Establish the Korean Cultural Foundation, Inc. in Seoul Korea.

1969 - 2004 Inaugural Chairman and President, Korean Cultural Foundation, Inc., Seoul, Korea. KCF produces the Little Angels and the Universal Ballet Company in Seoul, Korea. 1973 - 1975 Principal, the Little Angels Arts School, Seoul, Korea (later to become the Sun-Hwa Arts School).

1975 - 1994 Inaugural Chairman and President, Sun-Hwa Educational Foundation, Seoul, Korea. Sun-Hwa operates the Kyungbok Elementary School, the Sun-Hwa Arts Middle School and the Sun-Hwa Arts High School.

1976 Oct Establish the Sun-Hwa Arts High School.

1976 - 1990 Inaugural President and Publisher, the News World daily newspaper in New York City (later renamed the New York City Tribune).

1978 Dec Acquire and integrate Kyungbok Elementary School.

1978 - 1995 Inaugural President, World Media Association.

1980 - 1992 Inaugural President and Publisher, Noticias Del Mundo, New York Spanish-language daily newspaper.

1981 - 2002 Inaugural President, CAUSA International.

1982 - 1992 Inaugural Chairman and President, the Washington Times Corporation. Publisher of:

- The Washington Times daily newspaper

- Insight weekly magazine

- World & I monthly academic journal

1982 - 1997 Inaugural Chairman of the Board, the Washington Times Corporation. 1983 - 1997 Inaugural Chairman, Association for the Unity of Latin America (AULA).

1986 - 2004 Inaugural President, Universal Ballet Foundation, sponsors of the Kirov Academy of Ballet in Washington, D.C.

1987 - 1997 Inaugural President, World Peace Foundation.

1987 May Convene inaugural meeting of the Summit Council for World Peace in Seoul, Korea.

1990 Apr Convene the 11 th World Media Conference in Moscow, USSR.

Convene the 3 rd Summit Council for World Peace, Moscow, USSR.

Convene the 9 th meeting of the Association for the Unity of Latin America (AULA), Moscow, USSR.

1990 - 2003 Inaugural Chairman and CEO, Panda Motors Corporation in the United States, Hong Kong, and China.

1991 - 1994 President and Publisher, Segye Ilbo daily newspaper, Seoul, Korea.

1991 Jul Chairman, Federation for Victory over Communism.

Chairman, National Association for North South Reunification.

1991-2004 Co-Chairman, Federation of World Peace.

1996-2004 Co-Chairman, Federation of Island Nations for World Peace in Japan.

1997-Present Chairman emeritus, the Washington Times Corporation.

1998-Present Honorary Chairman, Asian People's Federation, Tokyo, Japan.

CHURCH ACTIVITES

1957 Feb 17 Become a member of the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity (HAS-UWC) commonly known as the Unification Church.

1965 Jan 05 Establish the Unification Church of Washington D.C.

1971-1994 Special Assistant to the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, Founder of the Unification Church.

1974 Director and Principal Evangelist of the Unification Church World Evangelical Crusades.

1997-1991 Inaugural Chairman of Unification Church International Foundation.

HONORS

1951 Aug 15 Hwa-Rang Medal for Meritorious Service in Combat. The Republic of Korea.

1953 Jun 25 Gold Star Hwa-Rang Medal for meritorious Service and Bravery in Combat. The Republic of Korea.

1957 Jul 15 Meritorious Citation from the ROK Infantry School Superintendent.

1959 May 30 Meritorious Citation from the Chief of the US Military Advisors Group.

1960 Jan 30 Meritorious Citation from the Minister of Defense, ROK.

1963 Sep 30 Certificate of Appreciation from former President Harry S. Truman.

1963 Oct 01 Meritorious Citation from the Prime Minister of the ROK.

1964 Oct 16 Meritorious Citation from the Chairman of the Combined Chief of Staffs.

1965 Sep 25 Certificate of Appreciation from former President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

1970 Dec 15 Certificate of Appreciation from the Chairman of the Washington National Press Club.

1971 Jan 04 Certificate of Appreciation from President Richard M. Nixon.

1971 Feb 01 National Medal, Dong-Baek for Outstanding Service and Contribution Made in the Cultural Field. The Government of the Republic of Korea.

1971 Nov 30 Certificate of Appreciation from HRH Queen Elizabeth II.

1984 Honorary Doctorate Degree "Honoris Causa in the Humanities." In recognition of Meritorious Service to Humanity, conferred by La Plata Catholic University of Argentina.

1990 For Contributions to International Peace, honored with the Investiture of "Academic" by the Mexican Academy of International Law.

1991 Nominated to Who's Who in U.S. Business and Who's Who in International Business as an outstanding business executive.

1992 The Order of Liberty and Unity for contributions toward Hemispheric Unity and the Promotion of Intercultural Exchange by the Association for the Unity of Latin America. 

19. Champions of True Love (July 1, 1993)

July 1, 1993
World Mission Center, New York

Who are the champions of true love? True Parents. By champions of love, I mean that True Parents have been victorious in overcoming all difficulties and are able to stand as the true son and true daughter of God. On July 1, 1991, Father proclaimed the Declaration Day of God's Eternal Blessing. Since 1945, our Father and our Mother have shed so many tears and sweat and blood to restore biblical history and to establish the first True Family. God didn't want His children to feel misery and pain and neglect. He wanted them to be glorious sons and daughters. He wanted to be in a position to give them an infinite amount of love. He wanted to be able to say, "Adam and Eve, you are my champions of true love." True Parents have digested all the obstacles that Satan put in their path. Through the magic of true love, they have turned them into one victory after another.

Every time I stand here and look into the audience, I see such a mosaic congregation here. We are brothers and sisters of all colors, ranging from black to white to yellow and maybe even red. This is such a beautiful assembly of God. However, when we come into this holy place, we always have to ask ourselves, are we really worthy? Of all the people in the world, why was I tapped to do God's mission?

We've all made the decision to be here. By our free will we choose whether to follow God or not, and you obviously decided that you want to dedicate the rest of your life to God and to our True Parents and to the world. That is a laudable conviction, and I am truly proud that we can be called brothers and sisters.

A great majority of you are Japanese. Where is America in this room? I only see a couple of American brothers and sisters. Every time Father speaks at major celebrations, he says, "America has a great responsibility to perform. Americans must wake up and realize the providential time. Americans must carry the name of True Parents to the world." However, in a way, America has failed. Our saving grace is that our True Parents choose to still reside in America and revive America so that she can stand in the true position that God planned for her.

Hope for America

True Parents have been going around the country giving a revival message to the American people. Didn't you feel as you were participating in those talks that it was a historical event? For me, these series of lectures symbolized a new hope for America. I was almost afraid that maybe our True Parents had given up on America. However, this time Father turned to me and said, "This is the first time in my twenty-one years here that I actually feel new hope for this country." They feel that the country is beginning to come alive again. There is so much that we can harvest for the sake of our True Parents.

If you really think about it, we have a lot to do. Every day must be spent on doing the work of salvation, giving God's great, important, new hope, to the American people. I've grown up in this country and I know what this country can do if it is centered on God. I can almost see how wonderful it would be if this country could truly be united centered on God and our True Parents. For many people God is something they cannot grasp. Our understanding of God may be someone who looks like Charlton Heston, sitting up in the heavens and looking very grave-sometimes being magnanimous, sometimes judgmental. However, we see God every day of our lives, don't we? We see Heavenly Father in the faces of our True Parents, and you really have to be grateful for that. How many people would die to be in your shoes, to serve True Parents and be able to follow them? How many people would long to say to the rest of humanity and to history, "I was there, walking side by side with our True Parents, making history happen"? I ask myself that question every day.

My source of inspiration

The life of a True Child is not just automatic. There are many struggles that we have to overcome, many obstacles that we must face every day. We are not perfection embodied in the faces of many different "Nims." We are very much with you. We feel everything you feel; we suffer through all the things that you suffer through. Yet I ask myself every day how many people are just dying to be in my shoes- not only following Father and Mother, but actually being the embodiment of their love, their flesh and blood. Every morning when I get up I ask myself, am I worthy to stand as a member of this family and as your sister? If I am not worthy, what must I do to make myself worthy?

I have to work very hard, and sometimes everyday life can get rather perfunctory. You do the same things over and over again, and many times it's hard to feel that renewed inspiration. Over the years I've come to realize that it's not right for me to look elsewhere for my inspiration when God has given me the very source of inspiration within my grasp, within my heart.

Many years ago, I didn't want to accept who I was and I didn't want to be In Jin Nim. Maybe you don't understand how someone in such a blessed position as a True Child would feel this way. However, as we all know, with tremendous blessing comes tremendous responsibility, and when you have the whole church looking to you as a beacon of light, it's very difficult to be that beacon twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, twelve months of the year, basically, for eternity.

When we were children, we could revel in the glory, but particularly during the teenage years it was very difficult for me. I really had to think and pray about it. What kept me going during those difficult years was True Parents, of course, but more than that, all of you. You symbolized for me a solidarity of spirit, a spirit of true love. I looked around the world and I couldn't see that anywhere else. In no other place could I find all different colors gathered in one room, everybody working towards one ideal, the building of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.

When I came to realize the greatness and the magnitude of our True Parents, my first reaction was total fear, that they are my physical parents. Then, I entered into a period of intense reflection, where I read everything that there is to read. After a lot of tears and a lot of prayer I came to understand-and am still learning to understand-the heart of our True Parents.

Champions of love

What True Parents preach to us every day is a very simple philosophy: do things for other people without asking for anything in return. Love people endlessly, without limit. Most of the greatest concepts in philosophy have been very simple. Profundity lies in simple words. If you start with the belief that you are living for the sake of others, somehow everything that you do and everything that you personify becomes something greater than yourself. The only way to rise out of who you are is to start doing things for other people.

Certainly, our True Parents have been the champions of living for others. They have given themselves, going out of their way to love all the members, even rejecting their own family at times for the sake of the members. Every day, with ceaseless energy, they have given me and they have given all of you so much hope. "Champions of true love" is a simple phrase, but it comes loaded with suffering and heart and pain.

For Father and Mother to stand in a position to proclaim a Day of God's Eternal Blessing is incredible. It's the seventh holy day of our church. From 1945 to 1985 was our True Parents' forty-year indemnity period. Six years later, this holiday was announced. Many calamities happened that year: earthquakes, natural disasters, so much chaos. In that chaotic year which Satan wanted to claim for himself, our True Parents proclaimed this Day of God's Eternal Blessing. In the seventh year after the forty-year indemnity period, Father and Mother founded the Women's Federation for World Peace. This eighth year marks a new beginning. In seven years we will be entering the new millennium. If we can carry forth this tradition and bring the message of true love to the world, it will be the substantiation of the Heavenly Kingdom on earth.

With the Day of God's Eternal Blessing came the blessing of tribal messiahship. What does tribal messiah mean to you? [In Jin Nim asks several members of the audience to respond to her question. Answers include: becoming messiahs for our tribe, showing God's love, making sacrifices, giving the truth, giving of ourselves, serving.]

Be little Reverend Moons and Mrs. Moons

By asking us to be tribal messiahs, True Parents have given us a very important gift. Father and Mother are the first True Parents. That means that they are the first man and woman to stand victoriously on the foundation of true love and establish an ideal family. To be tribal messiahs means to be little Reverend Moons and little Mrs. Moons. We have to be the representatives of True Parents wherever we go. Now think about that. Can you be like Father? Father doesn't like people to say merely that they will try. You are supposed to say "YES! Yes, I can be." Can you be just like Mother? Yes. That's what we have to be, brothers and sisters: little Reverend Moons and little Mrs. Moons. To our families, to our society, to the nation.

If you are going to be Mr. and Mrs. Moon, how are you going to look externally? Are you going to go to your hometown in punk leather and spike heels and blue and orange hair? No. Everything you do must manifest who they are. Of course, internally you must truly inherit their tradition and become one with them in spirit, so that when you live for others, your actions become a combination of the external and the internal manifested in the beautiful expression of love. It's an awesome responsibility, but if you take it seriously and you are really motivated and invest your heart in everything you do, God can work miracles.

When True Parents went around America giving their message of new hope, many people were studying the speech, taking their pencils and circling some things that meant a lot to them, nodding their heads. Some black ministers who were sitting behind me were saying, "Hallelujah! Praise the Lord! That's the spirit!"

There are people out there who are waiting for us to bring them the good news. Come on, brothers and sisters. Don't do your daily tasks grudgingly. You have to be inspired. People will know you by the way you manifest yourself. Is it inspiring to see someone totally enervated because of the day's work? No. We have to be beacons of light. Think that the whole world depends upon you, that everything is contingent on what you do and what you become. Think that every second, every hour, every day of the week is crucial to this providential history. Tell yourself you know what you have to do, and then resolve to do it.

One day at a time

Take things a step at a time, one day at a time. Start your day with a prayer, tell yourself what you are going to do, set up certain guidelines as to what you want to accomplish that day. At the end of the day, come into your bedroom and pray and see how much you were able to follow, how many things on your list you did that day. A life of faith is not easy. It takes constant discipline, constant dedication, but most of all, constant evaluation and constant desire for betterment. Without that, you will spiritually die. You will wither away. You will cease to see the significance of the time that you are living in, and in the end you will leave. It's all up to you, brothers and sisters. Everything depends on you and your determination. Nobody has brainwashed you into this church; nobody has coerced you to do anything. It's your decision, it's our decision, so let's make something of ourselves.

Let's harness the tremendous potential of every individual in this room and put it to good use. If even one brother or sister is lost, think about all the potential that's gone with them. You are hand- picked by Heavenly Father. Everyone of you has tremendous value and importance for this historical time. That's why we have to love and respect each other as brothers and sisters. We have to work as one. There is no room for dichotomy in this church-or in this world, for that matter. We do not need walls of separation between different races, different faiths.

We don't need walls separating men and women. Men and women are different, but in true love they have equal, divine value. Moreover, you, as brothers and sisters, as husbands and wives, and as future parents of your children, have to be able to embody that spirit of true love and manifest it in brother-sister relationships and in a conjugal relationship. Otherwise, how will the next generation learn how to love and serve others? Everything will start with you, with us.

People are searching for true love

Since I've been married, one of my high school friends went through three marriages and numerous relationships. When I got matched, she felt sorry for me and gave me her condolences. However, after ten years, she said to me over lunch: "I would just love to be in your shoes just for one day, to experience the kind of true love that you share with your husband and your family." She was crying. She said, "I have many friends, but all those friends will turn away from me once my beautiful face is gone. Even those who supposedly care about me usually want something in return."

Regardless of how many years we have been separated, my love for her was the same, and she knew that. She said, "I thought you guys were crazy, thinking that you are living in apocalyptic times, serving the Messiah, trying to create the ideal family." With a couple more meetings, I think she is going to be in the next blessing. Of course, this realization came after years of heartache. She said to me, "I feel like a used carpet. I feel like I have nothing to give, nothing new, nothing to inspire me." I said, "That's because you haven't been tapped by true love. However, you know through me, that true love never changes; it's always absolute." Then she said, "Yeah, I can see that." That's just one example from my own life that I share with you. So many people out there are so lonely, and really searching. In my classes and conversations with fellow students, the bottom line is: everyone wants to be happy, everyone wants to find love. They want to find someone who will love them for the rest of their life. To be loved eternally by a true man or a true woman who will be your spouse and through whom you will have an ideal family is an incredible life goal.

That's exactly what True Parents are callings us to by asking us to be tribal messiahs. Messiahship is not confined just to Father and Mother. Father is trying to break us out of the understanding that the Messiah is from a cloud, that he's not a human being, that somehow saintliness has to go hand in hand with being unrealistic. Father and Mother are showing us through their example that saintliness can be substantiated in our daily lives.

Father believes in us

Don't take Parents for granted. They are so precious to me, and I want them to be just as precious for you. If we can't do it, the responsibility will fall on our children and their children.

Father always gives the hardest time to American sisters, right? He does that because he is looking to you to be the women leaders that will unite America and bring it back to our Heavenly Father and our True Parents. It's difficult for Japanese and Korean women to break out of the mold of our Oriental tradition. However, you American women have had the experience of being on the front line. Be aggressive for God. There is nothing wrong with being aggressive for God. If you are aggressive for yourself, that's a problem.

Father and Mother are looking for American women who will be out there day and night serving the world. Because Father knows the potential is there, he is saying, "Come on, do better, because you hold the key. You American women are tall, beautiful, and smart. This is your country, and Mother is showing you the example. If the brothers get a little tired along the way, give them a nudge." You have to believe that Father loves you. Even within my family, Father says, "The ones I love the most, I give a hellish time to," and it's true. Sometimes I say to my mother, "Omma, why can't Father just smile once in a while and tell us we're doing okay? Why does it feel like Father is always kicking us out?" She tells me, "He's kicking you because he wants you to be better, because he knows you can take it." Mother said, "You should be grateful that he kicks you. He's not going to kick somebody that he doesn't love or doesn't trust." Therefore, if Father and Mother give you a hard time, or if your central figure gives you a hard time, be grateful.

I never thought I would be so happy

My life goal is to bring joy to True Parents. If I can be persecuted instead of them, I'll gladly do it. If I can be sacrificed for their greatness, I'll gladly do it. I'm not stupid, and neither are you. Just because I am Father's daughter doesn't mean I have to be here. I can leave. However, I've decided to be here, just as you've decided to be here, so let's not sit around and mope. Let's come together. If we are really united, true miracles can happen. We saw what tremendous effect Father`s and Mother's speech had on people.

I hope we can learn from one another and achieve great things. My desire is to see you become great and for you to experience the kind of love that I've experienced. I never thought I would be so happy. I never thought that I would have a wonderful marriage and beautiful children. When I lie down at the end of the day and I think back about the day's events and I reflect on how much my husband loves me, how much True Parents love me and how much my own children love me, I am just overwhelmed. I feel that I don't deserve any of it.

I want all of you to be that happy. Father and Mother want all of you to experience such magnificent, reciprocal love, so you can be the example for your tribe, so you can provide that spark of life and that incredible breath of fresh air for your lineage.

Please remember that the True Family is with you every step of the way. Young Jin is the top student in his class. He works hard not for himself but because he wants to better serve you in the future. Everybody in my family is working hard because we want to better serve you. We want you to be proud of us and know that our dedication to our True Parents and to this life is unwavering and absolute. We really want you to feel the same way.

Offer to buy someone coffee

You have tremendous potential, a tremendous God-given blessing that needs to be nurtured and used effectively. Grab somebody on the street and say, "Can I offer you some coffee?" They rarely say no. I know from personal experience. At first they may think you are trying to hit on them, but when you talk, ask them questions: What do you do? Are you a student? What are you looking for in your life? Do you believe in God? When you engage them in a conversation, they become really interested and say: "Wow. You really think of that stuff?" I reply, "Yeah." "Do you believe in God?" they ask me. "Yeah, I believe in God." "Gee, that's great," they exclaim. "Now where do we go from here?" "Well," I continue, "do you believe that this world should be composed of ideal families?" Usually the person will say, "What do you mean by an ideal family? Like, gung ho, everybody's happy, drinking iced tea and sitting around the table enjoying some Kentucky Fried Chicken?"

Then you start explaining what the ideal family is. Usually people are blown away: "Oh, my goodness. You believe in eternal love? You really believe that you were meant for this person and you are going to be faithful and loving to this guy for the rest of your life?" And I'm like, "Ye-e-e-es, I do!" Usually they will say, "Wow! Why do you think that way?" Then you can invite them to the center or to your home and really talk to them.

I've realized that there are a lot of lonely people. Many people have friends, but they are just buddies because they go for pizza or they go see a movie together. When you ask them, "So who is your true friend? Who in your life would stick with you through thick or thin?" Usually that person will not have a clear answer. Nobody really knows and nobody can be certain. We will introduce them to the eternal blessing of entering the embrace of our True Parents and to experience true love.

Father once said to me, "In Jin, if you go out grocery shopping, and there is a person behind you in line but you leave without ever uttering a word about True Parents, forty or fifty years later when you meet in spirit world, that person will say, "Hey, weren't you the girl who was buying groceries in front of me on such and such a day? How come you didn't tell me about True Parents?" When Father said that, it really blew my mind. In the movie Dr. Zhivago, even a chance meeting is considered to be somehow predestined. Think about it, there are thousands and thousands of potential new brothers and sisters walking the streets of New York, searching and aching to find the truth, and you are passing them every day, on trains, on airplanes, in grocery stores, in book stores, even in the restrooms. Every human being out there is important to God. It is our responsibility to bring that message to the world. Therefore, don't hold yourself back. Be aggressive. If people like you for some reason, or if people are interested in you, use that as an introduction for them to come and hear the Principle.

Our mission is to give people life

If I, as the daughter of Reverend and Mrs. Moon, can say things and gain legitimacy in people's eyes, it shouldn't be a problem for you. When I talk about my father and mother, people usually say, "Yeah, but you are Reverend Moon's daughter. You've been indoctrinated. You are taught what to say, so of course you say it." They say, "Reverend Moon's rich. You guys live in a mansion. I saw a picture of your house: you have a humongous swimming pool in the middle of your house." I say, "Who would want that?" Whenever I try to proclaim True Parents, people always ask me about the money and the prestige? I can honestly say to them, "Take away everything I own and I will still be who I am, just as proud and just as stubborn and just as aggressive, and maybe even more so."

You members have the advantage of a third-person perspective. When you speak out, when you proclaim our True Parents, people will say, "That guy doesn't look brainwashed. His eyes don't look glazed over. Let's see what he has to say." Can you do that? You with the glasses, you have a sparkle in your eye. Don't ever lose it!

Heavenly Father is truly happy on this day when He looks out at all of you. We can do so much, brothers and sisters. Don't ever forget that. We have to be strong, we have to work hard, we have to be aggressive. On this day, who will pledge, "I will be the champion of true love?" Thank you, brothers and sisters.

(edited for Today's World) 

18. Our Paradigm Of True Love (February 8, 1991)

"This is an excerpt from the speech given on True Parents' Birthday, February 8, 1991, in the Grand Ballroom of the WMC in NY."

The significance of the words "True Parents" is that they are the first perfected man and woman with absolute faith and absolute obedience to Heavenly Father and who, on a daily basis, practice true love. They are the champions of true love. They are the ones who have given us life, who have shown us love. They are the living examples who teach us each and every day of our lives how we as brothers and sisters, as central figures and followers, must unite in total love centered upon Principle.

Total give and take between subject and object, between men and women, between central figures and followers, between husbands and wives, that is what makes us real as the children, as the sons and daughters of our True Parents.

True Parents, like I said, are the first perfected man and woman. In the earlier years Father had to go through tremendous suffering to discover the Principle, the truth. He talks many times about hours, hours and hours of prayer. Many times ten to twelve hours on his knees so that when he got up from praying his skin would be hardened by such pressing energy, such pressing desire to know God.

"That was the symbol of my love," he said, that was the symbol even though it was painful, even though it was an arduous task. The fact that he discovered truth was a sacrificial and a loving gesture on Father's part because now such truth has been revealed to us.

In a way Father and Mother have given us the Principle. They have given us the truth, but more important than that, they are living examples. They show us how we can love each other, how we must love our spouse, how we must love each other as brothers and sisters. True love is what it is all about, that is what our movement is all about.

We have to be really proud that we have such a man and a woman, that we have such True Parents as the center of our lives for in them we see the truth, in them we experience the love of God, and in them we realize how much more we want to become like them, how much more we want to be able to love one another, to truly become united with one another to work together for one purpose only, to liberate God.

Father gets up before 5 in the morning and many times when I go to his room, he is sitting down cross-legged with his head down. Sometimes it looks as if he were sleeping like that, but he is very much in thought, thinking about the members, about the world. He is thinking about our movement, and what kind of men and women he wants to see in all of us.

Every time I see Father like that, my head is lowering down, lowering down, lowering down, not because he uttered a word, but because his presence is real. I can touch him and feel him. Through him I can experience God, through Mother I can experience God, like I have never felt before. Through them I realized, God is not something out there, on cloud nine, sitting on His throne of judgment ready to cast judgment on all of us, for all the wrong doings, the evils that we have done.

True Parents have finally made the Christian image of God real. They have made us see that God is a God of love and that He wants to experience love. God needs His true sons and daughters, just like when you get blessed with your husband and wife, what do you want the most? You want children. You want to be able to see yourself in those children.

In a sense you realize the manifestation of true love between husband and wife, but through their eyes you realize the greatness of your love. Your love gave life and in a sense True Parents' love gives us all life. It is absolute love. It is true love. It is not love that is so hard and so rigid that many people think, "Oh!, Does Father walk on the floor, or does he float? Does Father scratch his nose? Does he have hiccoughs? Does he burp?" Father is not a robot. He is not an image created up there. He is real. He is a living, breathing, caring, embracing individual. Together with Mother, we have True Parents. For the first time in history, in six thousand years of biblical history we have a man and a woman.

Our world is not just populated by men, but by men and women. In Father we see the example of true sonship. In Mother we see the example of true daughtership. Together, embraced and unified in the love and the glory of True Parents, we see how we, as parents of our own children, must become like that, must become the embodiment of true love. It is through them that we learn how to do it.

As I started to grow and mature I realized who True Parents were. I realized who I was, the flesh and blood of True Parents' love. One day, when I thought about that, I just could not stop crying. I was truly moved and truly repentful for the kind of ignorant life I was leading. I came to realize why you members love True Parents so much. I have to honestly say that many times all of you are my inspiration. Many times you are the people that I wanted to be like, that I wanted to be with, to love as a true brother and as a true sister. That is when I realized the true value of each and every person in this room.

Every man and every woman, every boy and every girl in this room has value, true love potential value. All of you are, in a sense, hand picked, in a way prepared. by our Heavenly Father to walk this way of life by your ancestors, by your father or mother who have been praying that perhaps their son or daughter could "serve the Lord."

You are so important. You really have to realize that because you are the embodiment of God, you are the image of God's love. As a man and a woman working together, in harmony, in unity, for the sake of our True Parents, for the sake of brothers and sisters around the world, for the sake of all the suffering people of the world, you represent hope. Just like you were hope to me.

You represent the future of what can be. Within your hands, you hold the key to the Kingdom of Heaven. You hold the key to true love. It is within each and everyone of us to become perfect, to become the image of true son and daughter so that we can never, ever fall away from God. It is in such an effort that the world sees and witnesses a new beginning. It is in that effort that we partake in the process of restoration.

Sometimes when I am struggling and ask Father, "Father, what can I do to make this world a better place?" Father has asked me to study, which is very, very difficult for me because I am a very active person. I like to be out there. I like meeting with people. But sometimes when you are reading a book day in and day out, it becomes a very stale relationship; the book does not respond to me in the way of a person.

So I said to Father, "It is so difficult, so difficult. How can I rise above my own suffering? How can I find the value of what I am doing?" Father just looked at me and said, "What do you mean what are you doing? You are working for God, and all the answers you need to know are within your heart." He told me to ask my heart, to pray about it, to reach deep within myself and come up with the answers.

Father said, "Look, God did most of it for you. He gave you the world. He gave you everything you need. All you need to do is that little thing called five percent portion of responsibility. That is the only thing we need to do."

We need to realize, to experience, to feel God on a daily basis. Father said, "Why are you coming to me? Pray to God. Find the answers within your heart!" 

17. Happy 24 Birthday In Jin Moon and Congratulations on the birth of Shin Kwon Moon (August 19, 1989)

August 19, 1989

Happy birthday In Jin Nim, August 19, 1989

Shin Myung Nim's third birthday, October 7, 1989

Congratulations In Jin and Jin Sung Moon on the birth of Shin Kwon Moon - August 13, 1989 (July 12, Lunar Calendar)

Shin Kwon Moon (Faith and Great Power)

16. Acceptance of the mayor's proclamation in recognition of The International Conference on the Arts (August 25, 1988)

In Jin Moon
August 25, 1988

In Jin Nim receives a proclamation from Ms. Esther Ruiz, representing Mayor Edward Koch, in recognition of the arts conference. Left to right: Ms. Renata Scotto, Mrs. Bo Hi Pak, Ms. Esther Ruiz, In Jin Nim, Dr. Benjamin Watkins, and Dr. Bo Hi Pak.

Ms. Ruiz, Dr. Watkins, Ms. Raskob, distinguished participants of the Second Annual International Conference on the Arts, ladies and gentlemen:

On behalf of my father, the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, founder of Artists Association International and the new Manhattan Opera House, I am very honored to stand here and receive this proclamation from you, Ms. Ruiz, representing the Mayor of the City of New York.

The International Conference on the Arts is truly a dream come true, created to offer hope and direction to artists from all disciplines. My father is very excited and hopeful about this conference of distinguished representatives from around the world. Best wishes for a successful conference.

In Jin Nim giving her acceptance speech.

I am very grateful for these words of proclamation acknowledging this prestigious conference. It is appropriate that this gathering of artists highlight yet another great cultural opportunity -- the restoration of the Manhattan Opera House.

Surely, this event will stand as a landmark in the cultural renaissance of New York, not only for the citizens of this city, but also for the citizens of the state of New York, for the nation, and for the world.

As I mentioned before, I feel personally most honored to be a part of this ceremony. I am sure that my father will be very uplifted in his heart to hear that such a gathering has taken place, and that his vision for culture, which he has harbored for so long, could be recognized by the Mayor of this city that he loves so much. This great project must surely gather momentum as a result of Mayor Koch's gracious recognition of our efforts.

Thank you very much.

Hoon Sook Nim, principal dancer of the Universal Ballet Company, performed a section of The Blindman's Daughter at the Gala banquet on August 27, 1988.

Restoration of the Manhattan Opera House
Jeremy Gaylord

At the opening reception of the Second Annual International Conference on the Arts, on August 25, 1988, a special ceremony was held to officially announce the beginning of the restoration of the Manhattan Opera House. Originally built by music impresario Oscar Hammerstein in 1906, the building was bought in 1977 by the Unification Church, which committed itself to restoring the opera house to its original grandeur. In that same year the church also took over sponsorship of the New York City Symphony, which was featured at the Olympic Games in Seoul.

The history of the house and the plans for renovation were presented in an audiovisual show put together by Ron Paquette of World Audio-Visual Enterprises. The words of the Script described its original beauty:

Being a man who always put his money where his heart was, Oscar Hammerstein, with no subscribers, invested 2 million of his own dollars and single- handedly proceeded to build the only opera house which would ever truly rival the Metropolitan's....

Largely designed by Mr. Hammerstein himself, the building, which spared no expense, made extensive use of Italian marble and Yorkshire stone. Adorned in the prevailing colors of deep red, warm buff, and gold, the auditorium rose dramatically through a peristyle containing 40 proscenium boxes, whose huge columns supported an additional semicircle of loges, with two balconies above. Overhead, a magnificent sculptured dome and chandelier hovered 100 feet above the orchestra floor. The press and public unanimously praised the warmth, intimacy, and splendid acoustics of the hall....

Its first seasons saw the American premiers of works by Massenet, Debussy, Offenbach, and Strauss. Its stage was graced with the most famous singers of the day. Its performances sold out, its subscription sales soared, its boxes filled with New York's renown....

After Hammerstein's death in 1919, the Manhattan Opera House passed through a series of owners and transformations, none of which ever again saw the grandeur Hammerstein brought to it....

In 1977, the Reverend Moon, founder of the Unification Church International, made a decision to purchase the building in the hopes of one day restoring it to its original grandeur.

Ms. Esther Ruiz, a representative of the office of Mayor Edward Koch presented a proclamation in recognition of the arts conference. In Jin Nim received the proclamation on behalf of her father, saying that Rev. Moon was "very excited" about the renovation of the opera house, which he hoped would stand as a landmark for the city.

Dr. Benjamin Watkins, mayor of Harlem, praised Rev. Moon for his efforts to revive the arts and improve the community for the sake of the future. "We need people like Rev. Moon," he said, "to help us, and especially our children, to learn again what is body, mind, spirit, and especially soul."

Barbara Raskob, president of the 34th Street Midtown Association, enthusiastically endorsed the renovation. She said her council members were "very excited to hear of the plan to restore the Manhattan Opera House" as a cultural center.

To this end, the Manhattan Opera House Foundation has been formed and a husband-wife architect team selected for the design. Nicholas Thompson and Claire Ferrier have made a name for themselves restoring many of Britain's great theaters. The eighth floor of the Manhattan Center complex contains a large auditorium with a recording studio, used by Metropolitan Opera singers and other classical artists because of its excellent acoustics. On the ninth floor is a smaller recording studio used for recording rock music. 

15. Knowing Our Position (June 19, 1988)

In Jin Moon
June 19, 1988
Belvedere

Good morning, brothers and sisters. Every time I come to Belvedere, I am very much moved. I truly love my True Parents and every time I want to speak about them something stirs inside of me and my love for them just wants to lunge forth and expose itself. Each time I stand here, I realize how much more I must do to serve our True Parents, how much more we have to understand their heart. But more importantly, we really have to understand our position. That is the topic I would like to share with you this morning.

When we come here on this beautiful Sunday morning, the grass is green, the trees are blossoming and the flowers are all around us. You feel a sense of love, don't you? There is a sense of beauty and harmony surrounding us. When I look at the trees, many times I wonder how those small leaves and those beautiful branches came to be -- and how the tree can stand so strong, with years and years of rain and storm and even lightning. Sometimes I think, "It is so beautiful--and yet something so beautiful is so strong. Strength and beauty are embodied together in that tree."

When I was growing up as a child in America, it wasn't very easy for me, or for the rest of my family. To be frank with you, every time I felt forlorn or somehow forgotten by my True Parents, I would always look at a tree and remember those little leaves and branches and that one, strong trunk which unifies the branches and the leaves, and I would say to myself, "You know, in a way, True Parents are my root. The trunk is like my faith in True Parents. It can never waver; it must be strong; it must stand through rain or sleet or through storm or thunder. Then the branches and the leaves must be my expression of joy and love and beauty to them."

Nothing is random in this universe. There is a strict order to things. Many times at schools and universities, they teach you things just happen by coincidence -- everything is chance! But when you look at something as simple as a tree in a loving way, it can teach us so much. Trees grow on the ground, but they don't become the ground and the ground doesn't become the tree. The two are two separate things, and yet they exist in harmony and need each other to survive and to prosper. Isn't that true?

Equality of Subject and Object

Being a woman, I find listening to the Principle about the subject and object relationship very amusing because I know that a lot of sisters have trouble being the object, right? And I know that many brothers think that being the subject is being bold and courageous and strong, almost to the extent that you become crazy in your subjective role!

I want to say something to you: Principle teaches us that when God sees us through His eyes of love, we are all equal in that we all have five percent responsibility to do God's mission. But biologically, our characteristics are very different. Our desires and longings, the things that we want to attain in life are different. In this 20th century, with the advent of feminism, many times women get confused about proper priorities and positions in terms of their role as women and their "careers."

All throughout history, women were mostly subjugated by men. That is a result of Eve's failure in the Garden of Eden. When you look at Oriental or African countries, the role of women is very, very low compared to that of the men. They are seen, in a way, as something inferior, as property, as a possession. That is why women, out of their anguish and frustration, may go to the extreme and take feminism to its limits because there is a constant obstacle in front of them. They become women who do not want husbands, who engage in lesbian relationships and who forget the importance of their role as mothers.

I, being a woman raised in this kind of environment, felt that very strongly. But I want to tell all of you something. Subject and object is not superiority versus inferiority. Neither man nor woman can grow without interaction with the other. Man was born for the sake of consummating his love with a woman and woman was born to consummate her love with a man. Both of you exist for each other, and must unite totally under True Parents and establish your four position foundation, on up to the cosmic level. That is our position.

When we look at nature, we realize we need relationship with trees to survive. We emit carbon dioxide and the trees give out oxygen. If we say, "All right, since I am the subject, I am only going to give you my carbon dioxide forever -- and I don't want your oxygen," can we exist? No. Again, there is this beautiful give and take between humans and creation and between men and women. That is why both men and women are extremely important.

You sisters must know that being an object is not something inferior. In fact, it is really a blessing and an incredible responsibility to be able to receive that true love from a man and return that love. Man gives you love, but if you don't receive that love, there is no way that the love is going to go back to the man and thereby create a circular relationship of giving, receiving, and giving back. I am very proud to be a woman and I am very grateful to Heavenly Father because I am a receiver of love, and my duty is to reciprocate the love that is given to me back to my subject.

Precious Suffering

I've watched all of you gather here many years and I have watched you grow. I have watched myself follow in your footsteps, growing and struggling with you, struggling to keep my faith, to keep myself consistent to Heavenly Father and our True Parents. Just because I am a True Child doesn't mean that I don't go through suffering. As much as you go through suffering, my brothers and sisters go through suffering, too. I want you to understand this, even though we may seem somewhat apart from you because we don't interact daily and maybe you feel a little distant. When you see the True Family during celebrations, all decked out and no place to go but onstage, you might say, "Ah, I guess that's the mission of a True Family -- all thirteen of them looking great over there and smiling ear to ear, photos being taken all over the place." That is just the exterior -- our public responsibility to you and to the world. What lies in our hearts beneath and behind that exterior is what matters, and what lies in our hearts is true love for our Parents. That is what matters the most.

I have no foundation to be here in front of you without True Parents. Why is it that you receive me or the members of my True Family with so much love? Yes, it is because True Parents substantiated their love for Cain before Abel. Before their own children, they loved the world. Your loving their children is your way of reciprocating the love that Parents gave to you. In that way, we have give and take.

Since we are part of the first, original four position foundation established here on earth, the members of the True Family stand in a subjective position. But we can only do so in that we are willing to live and die for the movement and for the world. So when you examine our position in this light, you realize that we have five percent responsibility, just like you. We have desires and wants, just like you. We can make mistakes, just like you. We can fail True Parents, just like you.

As parents, you must know that your children are not born perfect. True Family was not born perfect. I can testify to you that my elder sister's and older brothers' lives were not a bowl of cherries. It was very difficult for them, growing up in this antagonistic environment, being rejected and mocked by fellow classmates, being scorned -- it is something that is not easy to explain. I don't like to talk about my family's suffering because I don't want you to understand it as self-justification. What makes True Family great is that no matter what we go through, no matter what my elder sister and our brothers went through, they always came back to True Parents. Always.

If you don't face any obstacles or hardships, what difficulty is there in your being a goody-goody two shoes when you are an adult? But if you are confronted with obstacles and conflict and yet you are able to overcome it and become victorious in connecting back to True Parents after having gone through such tremendous suffering, that is something that is so precious. I am moved by my brother Hyo Jin Nim. I am also very much moved by your response to him. Your relationship truly expresses love between you. He is standing as the subjective person, the leader. You are the members, his objects. But a subject cannot be a subject without an object. You've returned the love he gave to you by receiving it, digesting it, and then reciprocating that act of giving by my brother. That is something so beautiful. I am sure when Heavenly Father sees that happening, He is truly moved. It makes me realize, in a way, how much Father has given you all throughout his life, because without Father's giving, without Father's substantiating his love for you throughout all these years, I don't know if you could have been in a position to receive and reciprocate that love and urge Hyo Jin Nim on, saying, "Okay, older brother. We're behind you all the way. Let's go." I truly want to thank you for that.

Always Come Back to Parents

I know that many of you here have suffered a lot. Many of you have your individual problems, family problems, financial problems. But what determines everything is that no matter what, you always connect back to True Parents. You start your days with True Parents, you end your nights with True Parents. That is our responsibility as Unification Church members. As a part of the True Family, that is my responsibility, too. No matter what I go through, no matter how many people spit in my face, I will not give up. No matter what, I must be in total unity with True Parents to qualify in my position as a True Daughter.

You must know your position, and yet you must not let your position keep you from doing what you must do. If you are a man, you cannot let your subjective role get in the way of your relationship with your wife. And the wife cannot let her objective position get in the way. If your husband is having difficulties with his faith and struggling, then in your role of practicing the objective role to the extreme, you must bring your husband back to True Parents. And you brothers, when your wife is having trouble, don't stand there and say, "I'm the subject. My wife has to come to me and bow down to me." If you stand in the position of a subject, then you must give unconditionally. You must be willing to love your wife unconditionally to the extent that your wife realizes her mistakes and comes back and is able to find her true position as your object and as the object of God's and True Parents' love.

What I'm saying to you is very much applicable to me as well in my own relationship with my husband. I'll be frank with you. In 1984 when Father told me the night before that I was to be matched, I was in no mood to receive a Blessing! Yes, I was very immature and I did not realize what Father wanted to give to me. I said, "Abba, my brother just ascended to spirit world not even 40 days ago. I am in no mood for a Blessing. I am in no mood to think about living the rest of my life with some man."

When Father was choosing my husband, inside my heart was helter skelter -- World War III! I am a very independent and stubborn person. I knew it would not be easy for any man to live with a woman like me! So part of the reason I could not really get into the spirit of marriage was because I felt sorry for the guy!

Individual Desires Must Go

Oriental men especially like very soft-spoken, fragile, obedient, subservient wives -- and I'm not any of those things! At least, I wasn't. Jin Sung lost weight -- he weighed 145 pounds when we got engaged, and on the day of my wedding, he weighed 125 pounds! So, seeing that, I felt, "Boy, at this rate, he's going to disappear!" On the morning of my wedding day, I said, "Father, you want me to live my eternity with this man, but if he vanishes into thin air, what am I supposed to do? How am I supposed to have children and establish my four position foundation?" He just smiled at me and didn't say anything.

It was tough for Jin Sung, too. It was tough for both of us. But one thing I said to myself was, "If I try to hang onto my own happiness and what I think will make me happy, I will never be in a position to fully accept this Blessing." What helped me the most was saying to myself, "My individual ideas, my individual desires and wants go out the door. No more. From now on, I don't exist. My desires don't exist, because they interfere with my doing my responsibility." As a member of the True Family, I have always been in a subjective role to the blessed children.

If I were to maintain that position and say to Jin Sung, "You, blessed child, now you're my husband but I'm still your subject! So obey me!" our marriage would have gone nowhere. We would never have been able to share the kind of love that we have now.

It is in humbling yourself that you can gain or maintain true love. Only when I saw myself as someone who must fulfill my position as a wife and as an object and who must not let my True Family background interfere in my subject and object role did I experience true love with my husband. I had to say, "There is nobody else in the world except you. I was born for you and you are my destiny. Of course, we have True Parents -- but you are who I live for and it is with you that I must establish my four position foundation."

Only when I had acknowledged that to myself was I able to love Jin Sung. You know, I respect him because it took about two years for us to really have good give and take. Imagine if he though fulfilling the subjective position was to say, All right, wife. If you're going to be like that, forget you. Let me find my own happiness in this little True Family. If you are not subservient to me, then I don't want to be your husband." What would have happened if he had said that? Collapse. Total collapse.

The reason why I respect him is because he stuck with me through thick and thin. No matter what I did -- and I did a lot of things to the guy! -- he came back with loving eyes and a loving embrace and said, "Yobo, I don't care how our relationship is now. Even just seeing your smile before I die will make me happy for the rest of my eternal life."

I share this story because he remained in his position of subject in giving me unconditional love, no matter what. And, yes, it was my responsibility and it was my admission that I do not exist that allowed me to become the object of his love. He wasn't leaving his position; I wasn't leaving mine. If Adam had fulfilled his responsibility by becoming a perfected man in mind and body totally united with Heavenly Father, he would have been in a position to substantiate his vertical relationship with God in the horizontal relationship with his spouse. Adam and Eve should have met in the center, totally united with God -- that is the only way they could have had true children. Likewise, you cannot have a blessed child unless you establish yourself as someone striving toward the ideal, toward perfection, toward uniting with God.

Importance of the Second Position

Blessed children must be able to absorb Father's tradition totally so that they can give that love to the next generation. Heavenly tradition must be saved. It must be consistent no matter what. Therefore, why is the number two so important? Because it must be able to fulfill its objective role to the first generation, by totally assimilating and transmitting True Parents' tradition to the third generation. Father said when we can complete these three generations, then the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.

That is why blessed children and True Children must totally unite with and become one with our True Parents, so that our individualistic traits and traditions do not go on to dilute or distort the heavenly tradition. That is why being a True Child is a very fearful position. If we make a crucial mistake, then what will happen to the dispensation?

This is a very serious matter. Jesus Christ was in the position of number two as the Second Adam. He was crucified. Likewise, Heung Jin Nim was the second son. Before me, there was another sister, the second, who only lived eight days. Even within Father's own family, among his close relatives, the second son of each family died prematurely. The interesting thing is that Father is the second son of his family. For Father to remain alive in this world, the second sons of his direct relatives were sacrificed. That is why when my brothers and sisters stand up here and talk to you, it is with utmost seriousness. As you know, when Satan thinks he's got something good going, he will keep on using it. Now, Satan thinks he has the number two in his lap! So he will keep on trying to get to the second generation -- the blessed children and the True Family. Now that you see this, you can understand more deeply why I say that my eldest brother's and my eldest sister's overcoming their own individual suffering and assuming their own roles as the eldest children of True Family is in itself total victory.

Nothing holds my brothers and sisters back. It was difficult in the beginning for my family because Parents didn't raise us. So we had to mature ourselves. We had to understand True Parents in our own way. True Parents loved the members before their own children. In this way, the members became True Parents' object. Father still does not love the True Children first because he is a man of God, and he wants to see the love that he has given to the members go back to the True Children. Therefore, when the members have their own children, True Children will be able to love the members' children before they love their own third generation children.

Don't Worry About Your Children

When you have children, you start thinking about financial responsibility, about where you are going to live and where your next meal is going to come from. Don't worry about your children. True Family will take care of your children. When Father says, "Do your mission," follow True Parents' example and love the world. Then, even if you don't focus on your children, love will automatically come back. Sacrifice never goes to waste; it will always be rewarded.

But please don't sacrifice while thinking that you want a reward later! It has to be unconditional sacrifice -- not thinking of the reward and what you will receive later. That is the kind of love the True Family wants all of you to have and to establish in this world, because that is the only way we can bring about the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.

I am only 22; many of you have more experience and wisdom than I. When I speak confidently, it is because of True Parents. When I think of True Parents, I do not despair or shrivel. I wake up and I become humble.

Many of you think that showing subservience or total respect is bowing your head. But if your heart is not connected, then everything you do is meaningless. In our church, we have Parents, leaders, and the members. Leaders stand in the position of number two -- such an incredible responsibility to carry out Father's desires and to be totally united with True Parents. I feel sorry for them. Please support them. They are the ones who tell you what Parents want, and you must be totally united with them. That is the only way we can do what True Parents are asking us to do for the world and for the cosmos. If you are thinking, "Oh, my leader is stupid. He doesn't understand my family problems, my financial problems," then you are forgetting your position. When you judge them, you are taking subject position over your leader and failing your responsibility as object to totally unite with the leaders.

When Father and Mother speak of the subject and object relationship, Cain and Abel, it is really, really important. Father asked me to get a Ph.D., but studying is something I hate. I find more truth in the Divine Principle book than I do elsewhere. In the beginning, when Father said to go this road, I struggled a lot because I really couldn't see why I had to do this. There are so many Ph.D.'s in our movement, why did I have to do this? But Father said to me, "In Jin, just because you are a True Child does not mean you can just stand there and have everything come to you. You have to reciprocate what the members are giving you by doing your responsibility." Father said studying is my responsibility. So even though I hate it with a passion -- school is one place that has been hell for my family -- I have no other choice.

Unity Is Our Mission

So when Parents ask you to do your mission, to unite with your leaders, to unite with True Parents, with husband and wife, that is what you must do. We as Unification Church members, and as men and women, must always know our position. For the sake of love, you must meet at the center. Meeting at the center does not mean that the left is coming to the right or the right comes to the left only. Forget your individual pride. Then you make room for Heavenly Father to feel comfortable and dwell within your heart.

Thank you so much. I know that you love True Parents just as much as all of my family. My family knows that. (In Jin Nim cries.) So no matter what, we will be strong for you. No matter what, we must unite. Never forget True Parents. Never forget how much they have suffered. Never forget how much they have given you. When we can realize and feel all of this, then I know we have nothing to worry about.

Imagine -- we don't even live to be 100 years old and we think we suffer a lot. Think about Heavenly Father's longing to see His children substantiate the ideal family, nation, world and cosmos. When you haven't seen your children for a long time, your heart just yearns and aches for the next day when you will see your child. Just intensify that feeling to 6,000 years. Let us never forget this. We must truly be grateful that Heavenly Father and True Parents are here with us, helping us, leading us on.

Won't you please join me in pledging ourselves once again to True Parents? Thank you. 

14. Your Life Is Special (March 27, 1988)

In Jin Moon
March 27, 1988
Belvedere

In Jin Nim speaks at Belvedere on March 27, 1988

Good morning. Today, as you know, is a very special day. My younger brother Hyun Jin experienced the most remarkable moment of his life when, at 1:38 this morning, his wife gave birth to a beautiful baby boy. His name is Moon Shin Won. Hyun Jin is a little shy right now, but he is really grateful to True Parents for bestowing this blessing on him. At the hospital I felt his renewed rejuvenation and his true determination to carry out Father's will.

I am here today because Father asked me to speak to you. What can I talk about? As the daughter of True Parents, the only thing I can really talk about is the heart of True Parents.

I see you gathered here every Sunday, and I see that many of you are hungry for love, hungry for some direction or new inspiration from True Parents. But you have to ask yourselves, "How many times do I come to Belvedere with a desire to give something to True Parents?" How many times do you come here only with your need to receive something from True Parents, instead of just wanting to inspire them with your eyes, your hearts, your faces? This is a simple question, and yet you don't have a simple answer, do you?

How Constant Are We?

As Unification Church members, what is the goal of our life? Our goal is not just to be struggling Moonies. That is not why God put us on this earth. We are not here to fight each day and night just to maintain our faith. We are here to go beyond, to become greater, to become like True Parents. We say ' True Parents" so many times, but do we really know the historical significance of having True Parents here? How often have you thought about this? Was it just for a glimpse of a second, or for a week when you first joined the movement? You realized the truth in listening to the Principle, and you were given an understanding of God's will and God's way. You said, "Yes, I found it! I want to live it!" But then, aft, r one year, two years, three years, where are you? Do you have that same spark that you experienced when you first heard the truth? That is what we must ask ourselves every day.

Father has said many times that it doesn't matter how many years you've suffered, or what you've achieved, even if you become a state leader or the publisher of The Washington Times, for instance; if you make a big mistake the next day, everything is lost. So how can we keep consistent faith? Not wavering like a serpent, but pure, untainted, and constant? In this 20th century, in this age of the Messiah, many people claim to be a messiah or a prophet. You've heard of the evangelical preachers Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggert. They are good, God-chosen people, but they were not able to maintain themselves consistently in doing God's will. That's why they could be tempted and become corrupted by power, wealth, or women. So as Unification Church members, who are to inherit True Parents' heart, how do we keep constant? Do you always need Father 24 hours a day, holding you up by the arm and saying, "Okay, sister, brother, march on, I'm right behind you!" How can you expect that? You say you want to liberate True Parents from their suffering, and you pray to Heavenly Father, "I want to liberate You from Your suffering." But how can you really do that, if you always depend on a crutch?

We have to be able to perfect ourselves and unify our mind and body so that our spirit self and our physical self act as one. If you are always residing in two halves, your physical self wanting material things and your spiritual self wanting a higher spiritual awakening, how are you going to exist? How are you going to do anything based upon your true, unified self? You know, the unity of the mind and body is such a profound thing. There have been many great historical philosophers and thinkers in the past, and yet they have not really understood how the mind and the body are to work together. People suffer because they are not able to become one with the universal truth. They suffer because they are not able to connect to True Parents.

Happy Homecoming Day for True Parents, March 17, 1988. Back row, left to right: Hyung Jin Nim and Young Jin Nim. Seated, left to right: Yeon Jin Nim, Father holding Shin Myung Nim (son of In Jin Nim and Jin Sung Nim), Jeung Jin Nim, Mother, and Shin Jeung Nim.

It's Not Easy Being a Moonie

As I stand here, I am inspired by all of you, because I know it's not easy being a Moonie. You have to be strong to be here. When somebody spits in your face, you have to have a greater heart of love to not spit back at them. And in a way, you have to see this person almost as your loving spouse, or your loving child, or your loving sister or brother. Only when you see them in that loving light do you want to restore that person and give them salvation.

What is the True Parents' heart? Simply put, True Parents' heart is the heart of true love. Father has preached countless numbers of times to you about true love, the ideal family, being one with God, and creating the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. And yet, after hearing these inspirational words from Father, how many times. did you let them just go in your right ear and come out your left ear?

How many of you come to this holy place without preparation, seeking some form of rejuvenation? The Principle teaches us clearly that for the foundation for the Messiah, you need two prerequisites -- the foundation of faith and the foundation of substance.

What does this mean to us as Unification Church members? You know that when Jesus came, he could have gone two roads, either the one leading to his becoming the King of Kings, or the one leading to his crucifixion. When Heavenly Father sent Father to this earth, Father also could have become the King of Kings, but he had to go the way of the cross. It is a sad testimony to history that, because the Christians in 1945 were not able to accept Father, because the people had laid no foundation of faith or substance, Father had to do it all by himself, for 40 years. Father fulfilled the foundation of faith through his countless inspirational words, and he fulfilled the foundation of substance by embodying these words in his life. When we look at this man, who has lived exactly according to what he has spoken, how can we say anything against him?

The Greatest Gift In The World

Maybe in a way it's easier if you don't see Father at close range, but let me tell you something. Father is the greatest man I know, and Mother is the greatest woman I know. What makes the Unification Church so special compared to all the other religions of the world? We have True Parents. We are living day to day with True Parents. They're not something written in history books that you have to look up in the library. They're here!

We can listen to them speak and we can be inspired by them.

True Parents coming here to earth and giving you the truth is the most valuable thing in the world. If God put a 100-carat diamond right on your lap, what would you do? Your eyes would light up, and you'd say, "Oh, what an incredibly wonderful gift!" You would probably buy 100 bottles of Windex and clean it every morning and evening, making sure it shone like the top of the Chrysler Building, wouldn't you? But when I say such a simple thing as, "God gave you the truth," how many of you are ready to jump up and say, "I cherish this more than anything! I cherish this with my life!"

Parental heart -- that's what I want to share with you today. What is parental heart?

It's the heart of true love. From a historical point of view, the heart of true love has been the heart of suffering. Biblical history is an account of tragedy after tragedy. Because Christians were not able to accept Father, Father's life has been one imprisonment after another, one humiliation after another, one curse after another, being spit upon again and again. If you think you have it bad on the streets, when people spit at you and speak obscenities to you, how bad do you think Father had it? You know sometimes when I look at Father's face, my tears just begin to flow. And I say to myself, "No matter how tough my life gets, I will not let Satan dominate me! I will not let Satan get the better of me!" When one man for more than 60 years has done this much for God, why can't I? At 22 years old, I have the energy, and I have the future ahead of me. Why can't I, or all of us, do as much as Father did? Father said many times that we have to become little Sun Myung Moons. Father is bestowing this gift upon us, saying, "Come on, try harder, and you can be like me. You can even be greater than me." That's what Father wants.

Every Sunday when the True Family has 5 o'clock pledge, Father says to all of us, "I want you to be better than me." When I hear those words, I am grateful, and yet I tremble. Always with great blessing comes great responsibility. Father speaks to you every Sunday, watching your faces, smiling at you, and sometimes scolding you. When Father gives that much love to you, you have to reciprocate that love by going out to the front line, giving 100 percent to your mission, loving your spouse, loving Heavenly Father, loving your brothers and sisters.

True Parents officiate at the 8-Day Ceremony of Shin Won Nim, the first child born to Hyun Jin Nim and Jun Sook Nim.

There's No Room For Complaint

After all, we are the Unification Church. Look how beautiful this audience is! There isn't just black hair or just blonde hair or just brown hair. There are blue eyes, green eyes, brown eyes big faces, small faces, handsome faces, ugly faces. They're all here, right? I'm not saying one is better than the other, because we are all made in the image of God. You should take tremendous pride in that. You need that pride because when you sleep with 10 people in the same room, or go around in vans witnessing day after day on IOWC, it can kind of wear you down. I understand. I have been witnessing too, you know. I've been fundraising too. I know what it takes. My whole family knows what it takes. But yet, we have no room for complaint_ Do you know why? Because the man who suffered the most and gave the most doesn't ever complain. How can I complain when, compared to Father's suffering, my suffering is like the size of an atom?

How many of you here are blessed? How many of you here have children? When you look at that beautiful child that God gave to you, you see a reflection of yourself, right? That's why you love them so much. Because he talks like Daddy, or she walks like Mommy. That child is your flesh and blood. And yet, when you have a blessed family, you must never forget that no matter how beautiful a child you have, that child could have never existed without True Parents.

Father is not just a man of suffering; he is a man of humility. It takes a lot for a man, any man, to scrub floors in a prison. It takes a lot for a man to be able to give up his whole life for the sake of the world. And it takes a lot for a man to love other children more than his own. Let me be frank with you. Sometimes I or my brothers or sisters got frustrated and we asked True Parents, "Father, if you love us and preach the doctrine of love, why are you so busy loving everybody else and not us?" Of course when we asked those questions we were quite young. Now we understand why Father loved the members more, and in our eyes it makes him even greater. Father has always lived the Principle life, no matter what. That's what is amazing about Father. He not only speaks it, but he lives it.

What Is The Test For Truth?

What is the test for truth in this day and age, when people think everything is relative and everyone does his own thing? How do you know that something is the true will of God? Through the Principle you know that God's will is unchanging and eternal; it is constantly moving towards fulfilling the purpose of creation, which is goodness. You can see that God is not a whimsical God; God is eternal. He is constant, and He is absolute. Many of you had the opportunity to attend Heung Jin's conference. It was a very interesting experience, was it not? It separated the sheep from the goats, didn't it? You were directly confronted when he said, "If God says this, are you going to follow it?" Where is the truth? The truth is in True Parents. People can shove candies and ice creams down your throat and say it's good for you, but if Parents say it's not good for you, then it's bad for you. Simple as that. When you have that absolute connection of give and take with True Parents, then you will have no problem.

As blessed couples, you are very special. If you don't get anything else out of this Sunday message, I want you to know that you are special people, because you are serving True Parents on the earth. Thousands and thousands of spirits in the spirit world long to be in your position, attending True Parents day to day. Do you understand how special you are? But it is your five percent responsibility not to abuse that specialness. You have to be confident and think, "I'm a Moonie and I'm proud of it!" You have to want to share that specialness with the world. There is nothing more I or any of my family can say. You've all heard the Principle.

You know the truth. My existence, and my family's existence is only, in a way, to testify to the greatness of True Parents' love and the true way of life. We hear the words "true love," "absolute standard of love," "True Parents," "brothers and sisters," so often that we forget the significance of each word. We forget the significance of our existence and our attendance to True Parents. We as Unification Church members should never, never, never forget these things. You should never forget Father's suffering and tears or the blood he shed in prison. You must never forget Father's love for all of you. You cannot just be an individual who uses the Unification Church as a protective shell against the outside world. How are you going to restore the world this way? If all you are trying to do is maintain your faith and maintain your belief in True Parents inside the Unification Church, how can you go out and proclaim to the world that Heavenly Father is living with us? Don't use the Unification Church or Father as a crutch anymore. Father says we have to perfect ourselves. That is our five percent responsibility. It is that measly five percent that you have to work on. It's so simple, right?

In Jin Nim speaks at Belvedere on March 27, 1988

We're Stretching All Your Concepts

You each made an incredible decision in your life when you committed yourself to this movement. It was a new beginning. And yet if you don't continue to make the effort, you will always be faltering, just trying to maintain your faith in your little space. We are unlike other religions that advocate giving up the material world and burying yourself in a monastery or a nunnery. Some people think that this is the way to salvation. Of course another grout those who totally reject God, say that this world is too evil for a God to have created it. But what is it that makes us different from atheists or nuns or priests? The difference is that we advocate restoration. How are you going to restore 42nd Street? By staying in a monastery? By totally rejecting God? No, you have to move those people with the word of God and cleanse their souls. Give them God's word so that their original minds can come out.

Many times at the university, I bump into people who say, "Rev. Moon is supposed to be a religious leader, so why is he interested in the fish business?" People say that Rev. Moon cannot be a true man because a religious person would live in a hut made of cow dung, with a little wooden pulpit in front of him, reading his Bible. That's your stereotypical good, pious, religious man, right? But let me ask you something. Where do these ideas originate? In the fallen world. And when you come into this church, don't you have stereotypes of what a heavenly person should look like? Do you have the idea that holiness comes with sparkling blue eyes and angelic blonde hair and a gleaming smile? How many of you come with that mind-set and even dare to judge the True Family! How many of you have said, "Well, True Father is a great man and True Mother is a great woman, and one beautiful woman at that, but how can a religious man's son play rock and roll? How can a religious man's son or daughter compete in the Olympics? Why do the True Children go to school in secular institutions?" The True Family is stretching all your concepts, forcing you to become more broad-minded. Having such narrow ideas is like saying to Heavenly Father, "I want to restore the world, but not those people on 42nd Street. Maybe you can give that responsibility to somebody else." When you are serving Heavenly Father, you have to be unconditional. How many of you, when you get into a fight with a brother or a sister, say to yourself, "All right, I'll say I'm sorry, but only because I want them to say they're sorry back to me!" Or you buy a wonderful gift or write a beautiful card for a brother or sister, thinking, "I hope on my birthday they remember me!"

I Don't Exist Without True Parents

Father doesn't give you love saying, "Since I gave you love, I demand it back!" When Father gives you that pure, untainted, flowing, vibrant true love, you just melt, and your original mind says, "Ah, this is the drink of water I've been waiting for!" You are motivated voluntarily to do the will of God. That's the difference between communism and Godism. Communism uses force, but with God's love, the desire arises from within you and you really want to give. That is basically True Parents' heart. It's really beautiful, and when I see your eyes twinkle like that in agreement, that's beautiful to me and to my family.

I want you to understand one thing. When you see me speaking like this, please don't see me as In Jin, as an individual. I am a part of the True Family. I don't exist without True Parents, without my family. We're like one body. The body acts as one, and all the fingers and toes, the eyes, the nose, the mouth, and the ears act in unity. Suppose a person is writing on the blackboard with his right hand and his left hand starts wiggling around, thinking, "The right hand is getting all the attention at the blackboard. Why doesn't anybody pay attention to me?"

Wouldn't that be strange?

What makes this child [referring the young blessed child directly in front of her] so beautiful? Is it his brown hair? This hair is no different from a horse's hair, so what's so beautiful about that? Is it his brown eyes? Is it the way he sits so coyly, looking up, smiling at us? It's actually all these things harmoniously combined, unified into one being, that allows us to know him as a beautiful person.

I love green, but I don't think I'd like everything to be green. I don't think you'd be very beautiful with green hair and green eyes and green skin! It's that inner play of giving and receiving among all aspects of your body that makes you beautiful.

That's what makes True Parents beautiful to all of us. They are our living examples of harmony and unity.

All you have to do, brothers and sisters, in order to follow in True Parents' footsteps, is to say to yourself when you get up in the morning, "Okay, today I'm going to be like True Parents." And the next day, "Today I'm going to be like True Parents."

And the next day, again, "Today I'm going to be like True Parents." No matter how much you've done in the past, no matter how many members you've witnessed to, no matter how many wonderful things you have done, the next day brings a new challenge, and you must bring to it a new determination. Take one day at a time. You can do a lot in 24 hours. The Kingdom of Heaven may seem far off yet, but if you take things one at a time, it will come.

At the celebration of the birth of Shin Won Nim on March 27, In Jin Nim sings a song dedicated to Hyun Jin Nim's new baby.

We Have To Be Universal Men And Women

I want you to know that all of True Family is with you 100 percent. You may not see Un Jin Nim, Kook Jin Nim, or Jeung Jin Nim and the younger ones, but that's because we are doing what Father has asked us to do right now. Kook Jin's in Korea, Jin Whi Shi is in London, my husband and I are in college, Hyo Jin Oppa is here doing music, and Hyun Jin and Un Jin are going all over the place getting ready for the Olympics. Do you think riding horses day in and day out is an easy thing? Do I look like a bookworm? Let me tell you, I'd rather be somewhere else than cooped up in that library. And I don't find any truth there that I don't already know. Education means nothing to me without it being centered on True Parents. The reason why I study, and the reason why the True Family prepares to do so many different things, is so that when we go out into the world we will be able to communicate with lawyers, PhD's, sportsmen, musicians. The people who are to be saved are not only within religious communities, but everywhere in the world, and there are many, many kinds of us. That's why Father is pushing his children out. When Hyun Jin or Un Jin falls off their horse and breaks a bone, they still get up the next day. Why? Because they love True Parents, and they love you.

They're doing it for you, and to bring glory to the Unification Church and to the poor country of Korea.

Some members write me letters asking, "Why do we do such crazy things like creating the Universal Ballet? Why do we waste all that money on such a thing at a time like this?" It is simple -- because the performing arts have to be restored along with the rest of the world. Building a newspaper like The Washington Times is part of restoration. We have relief projects all around the world helping the sick and hungry. We have a hospital in Japan. There is a fishing fleet in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Father is a universal man. And we have to be universal men and women just like Father.

Father looks strong and vibrant, but don't forget how old he is! Usually people over 60 are preparing to die. Wherever Father goes, people are so hungry to see him. Many times when Father visits members, Mother and my brothers and sisters and I try to get him to leave a little early so that he can rest a bit. But if I say, "Father, please rest," he says, "Don't say that to me, girl! Even when we are sleeping, on the other side of the world there are people fundraising and witnessing. And even as we're sitting here, there are Unification Church members behind the Iron Curtain giving up their lives. Many are in concentration camps. Many have died." When True Parents, as the universal father and mother, hear such reports they say, "News like that hurts us just as much as Heung Jin's passing did."

As we know, Heung Jin's ascension to the spirit world is a wonderful thing. Yet in reality, this has been the most painful and frustrating thing for our family. If the people 2,000 years ago had been there for him, Jesus would not have had to go the way of the cross. And if we had been a little stronger, a little more unified, maybe Heung Jin wouldn't have had to be sacrificed. But Father accepts Heung Jin's sacrifice with a grateful heart. Just as Heung Jin is my brother, he is your brother, too.

The Thing That Moved Me The Most

Let me tell you, frankly, how great Father is. The thing that moved me the most was when I saw him at the hospital just after he had come back from Korea, and he saw my brother lying there comatose, breathing only with the help of a machine.

When I saw Father and Mother's faces, my heart was saying, "Father, please do something! Please pray for your son!" But Father did not even waste an ounce of selfish tears praying for his son. The only thing he prayed was, "God, let Thy will be done. We pray that if this body is sacrificed, then it will be sacrificed for Your greater will." What kind of a man would pray like that? From a fallen point of view, he would be a crazy man! Yes, he's crazy -- crazy for God, because he knows the aching heart of God. He knows the pain God felt when He saw His own children -- Adam and Eve -- falling and was not able to do anything to stop them. When I see that total, unconditional love in Father and Mother, I have no words to express my gratitude and admiration.

I never realized how much Parents loved me until I had my own son. And when I saw my son's face, when I saw his first smile, when I heard him speak his first word, it was just music to my ears. It was the most beautiful work of art. When I see my baby, I realize that as much as I love that child, that's how much Father loves me and my brothers and sisters and all of you. What a profound love that is -- the parental heart of suffering, of humility, and of unconditional love! So when you experience happiness with your husband or wife or your beautiful child, think not only of your own happiness as a family. Every brother or sister's suffering is my suffering and True Parents' suffering. We are together in this. We are unified. And if we can perfect ourselves, if we can inherit that beautiful parental heart, there is nothing we cannot accomplish.

Won't You Please Join With Me?

My family and I want to tell you to be strong, to go out there and build enough faith through prayer and through your daily experiences with Heavenly Father to perfect yourselves. That is your responsibility. My brother cannot do it for you. I cannot do it for you. Father cannot do it for you.

Please know how great True Parents are, and how great True Parents' heart is, how absolute and eternal and constant that true love is. That's what we live for after all -- true love. Won't you please join with me and my brothers and sisters? Won't you please join with our Father and Mother? Won't you help Heung Jin in the spirit world? Then please raise your hands. Thank you very much.