Sun Myung Moon
December 31, 1980
Birthdays in True Parents' Family
The True Parents form the original four-position foundation, and your own position is grafted to this. It is all connected to the core, which is God. And then my next generation will interconnect with yours and keep on expanding. Generation after generation, this form will continue for thousands of years. In this way, your family will be an Abel family, while others will be in the Cain position. While we are being restored, Abel will sacrifice for the sake of Cain, but once the restoration is fulfilled, Cain will serve Abel.
The conclusion here is that the children fulfill the will of their parents. And the will of the family is accomplished by the clan. So what matters is the Abelistic tradition. Abel must always pass along the tradition. You should always return to the original point, which is here. Our tradition is universal; beyond country, beyond race, beyond time. The world will come into unity centering on God. But until the entire world is connected and restored, the Cain and Abel principle will always be at work. We cannot do any heavenly work without this principle.
I started my mission when I was your age, 35 years ago. But the difference is that when I started, the world was hard and cold like a wilderness. Then I had to work all alone with my own hands. But today the world has come to an enlightened springtime. Everything is prepared; everything is pioneered. What a tremendous difference from 35 years ago! At that time, I had to plant ideas one by one. Now I don't have to plant them anymore, for they are already everywhere. It is much easier for you to work.
Two days ago you gave an absolutely enthusiastic applause and welcome to me, such as we have never seen in our church. But did you do that only in expectation of your engagement? If you did, then it had no meaning. But if you were searching for what could happen to this world and to this nation, the world has hope.
Now you are getting ready to marry, and that brings back a memory of my time. Just before I got married, the lawyers and judges in the courthouse were preparing to persecute and condemn me. The very next day, I got married there, and many of the same people came to congratulate me, not knowing what was actually happening. I was fighting on the one hand and achieving my family on the other. I was fighting the very day that I got married. What about you? Does anyone come to condemn you like that? I remember it like it was just yesterday.
So as soon as you feel happiness, immediately you have to think that this happiness is not just for you but should be extended for the sake of the country. God is giving you this blessing. You have to pray that this happiness will not stop on the family level but will extend. Because of us, family disintegration and the resulting heartbreak of children should stop. We have to pray for this.
This will serve as a real beginning of the liberation of all mankind and God. Especially we have to pray when we become happy in our family. If you give birth to your own child, you must think that the reason God gave this blessing to you is that through your family all other families might be saved and restored.
We have to think that way. We have to remember that if the world has no hope, what good will it do if we have a happy family! Our family will also be washed out with the rest of the world. When we think like that we: have to pray that we can bear the cross of these perishing, declining families. You have to educate your children that their daddy and mommy will work for the sake of the nation and world.
If one person out of every hundred dies a day, that means that 40 million people are dying each day. Where do they go? Most will go to hell instead of heaven. This is very serious. If we forget that and only enjoy our blessings and happiness, we are going against God's will. If you are ever going to be a good family, you will have to sacrifice your own joy and happiness. We will work so hard to liberate others. Without exaggeration, this is what we can expect in the future.
If you are really serious about this, what does it matter if your spouse-to-be is not so handsome or fantastic as someone else? The more difficult your situation is, so much the better because you know how hard it will be to bring peace on earth. The children resulting from an international family can go between your two countries. Although you may be enemies, your offspring will be able to hold the two countries together so that one country will not perish at the hands of the other -- they will keep on surviving.
There is such tension today between black and white. If there is any hope for a solution to the racial problem, then it will be in the family of a black husband and white wife, or a white husband and black wife, praying for peace between the races and giving birth to children of both races. If two villages are fighting each other, then someone has to be determined to make them stop fighting. Even if he has to be sacrificed, he will later be honored by both sides. This is the most precious thing we have to know.
So far you have been living in one world. Now you are about to live in two worlds, two countries, and two tribes. You will go together as a bond. Never separate your two worlds. It will not be easy. When you are beaten, you may be a loser, but when you become victorious you will be a leader. If it is too huge a task for your one generation, you have to pray that your sons and daughters can continue the work. As long as we do this, there is hope for the future of the world. If we don't, then there is no hope for the world.
You must be aware that all the critical questions of your family are in your hands. Don't just sit and think: "I'm only getting married." The position you are in is far more meaningful and far deeper. This dispensation will be connected to our future generations. We say that everything works under the principle of indemnity to create bigger and bigger conditions of indemnity.
Let's take an example. A white couple is blessed and they are quite happy together. They put a lot of heart into their work, so they establish a certain indemnity condition. A black couple may be in the same situation, but because they are persecuted, they will have established a greater indemnity condition.
If a handicapped person does the same amount of work as someone who is not persecuted, he will get ten times more credit. There is: a gospel in the Unification Church. This gospel is the principle of indemnity.
Whatever happens to your family you must swallow up and digest. If you are determined to do that, raise your hands. It is up to you to set the conditions. Let's do this in the year to come. You know what mankind wanted and what God wanted, the blood we used to have and the new blood tradition. Also, I have told you how to relate to each other and about your offspring. I may not be available to teach you every day, step by step; as long as you know these things you won't need me to teach you so often. So just go ahead. Instead of missing me, go to work and become successful.
I have given you good hope. Are you going to carry all this out? Now you have just crossed the border from the old world into the new world. We cannot see that borderline with our eyes, but it is very much there. Forget about the past and have full hope for the future.
Observe each other and do your best to do your duty to God. See who shoots up stronger. ·: Take heed of everything that I said today, and you will go straightforward to the realization of your own family and the kingdom on earth.