Upon listening to introductory seminars on Divine Principle in my twenty-first year, I had a Wesleyan experience of the warming of the heart and a personal spiritual experience with Jesus. This powerful transforming experience left me with little doubt concerning the authenticity of this “new truth” as genuinely Christian and directly approved by Jesus. Excitedly, I wrote about my experience with the Divine Principle to my mother and grandparents, who had always encouraged my spiritual pursuits. My letter crossed a letter from my mother in the mail. Enclosed in her letter was a clipping of a paid advertisement in the local newspaper concerning the Watergate crisis, called “Forgive, Love, Unite!” Deeply touched that a foreigner would come to America and demonstrate the Christian response to the moral failings of our president, she was convinced this was a message from God for the American people. Upon receiving my letter, she marveled to discover that I had met the movement inspired by the same person who had brought this Christian message of forgiveness, love, and unity to the American people. For our family, this was a testimony of God’s wondrous and mysterious work, both within our lives and within the world.
From I Am in This Place, p. 65.