Hak Ja Han
September 24, 2018
True Parents' Special Dinner Banquet on the Chuseok for the Liberation of Heaven and Earth
Grand Hall in Chung Pyung Training Center
Isn't the weather outside today very beautiful? It's a beautiful season, an abundant season of bearing fruit, and a good season. Next year will be the 100th anniversary of this nation's March 1st Movement, which sought independence and freedom. This country's history and the history of the providence are like this harvest season. We are living in a fruitful time.
This is a bountiful season which humanity desired, and in Christian history, this season also brought about the holiday, Thanksgiving. People would harvest the annual crops and gather as a family before God and offer a prayer of gratitude. And in Korea's farming culture, people revered heaven, worked hard for a fruitful harvest, and had a beautiful custom of offering prayers.
This universe has an owner residing in it. Humanity was meant to live according to that owner's will, but today's human beings experienced many twists and turns in the quest to find freedom and peace, and ultimately failed. The current times are the same. This nation divided into two Koreas. In the midst of this conflict, North Korea–South Korea summits have taken place, but in the end, only when we attend the universe's owner, the Creator, God, our Heavenly Parent, can we find freedom, equality, and peace. This is why human intelligence and human effort alone will not achieve those things.
The road we must take toward the day when the 7.6 billion people on earth can attend our Heavenly Parent as His children will be a busy one. All the blessed members here today from Korea, Japan, and the United States must fulfill their responsibilities. Therefore, during this bountiful season, I earnestly hope you will receive a lot of good fortune from heaven.