In Spring Frozen Soil and People's Minds, Which Shrunk During Winter, Begin to Open

Hak Ja Han
April 3, 2013
Launching Ceremony of Vision 2020
Cheon Jeong Gung (CIG Year 1 HC 2.23)

Hak Ja Han – March 10, 2012

Note: These notes are taken from a Peace TV video clip. They cannot be published as definitive texts and should never be used in the future as an "official" publication of True Parent's words. However, they do provide a good idea of the "spirit" of the message. -- Rev. Katsumi Kambashi

True Mother spoke at the ceremony which concluded the 3-day workshop for all Korean church leaders.

"I am glad to see you. Are you happy? Now the spring has come. I am grateful to Heaven to have a chance to hold the launching ceremony of Vision 2020 with you. Today is the 40th day after Cheon Il Guk Foundation Day.

Speaking of spring, don't you feel that the frozen soil as well as the minds of people which shrink during the wintertime, become more open? We can see in the video the people who become physically active and eagerly prepare themselves for spring. We can feel with our senses that spring has come. Isn't that the case with you? ('Yes.')

Frozen soil, after getting wet, is letting the trees' new buds come out, and is preparing to receive new seeds. Please imagine it. How mysterious is the creation of Heavenly Parent! Such a season has come when we can actually feel and experience it.

We also have now a new type of spring. It is the new spring, new history, and new start of the Cheon Il Guk, which has been waited, for a long, long time in the providential history. I can't emphasize enough how thankful and grateful we should be to be able to meet such a time during our life time. We have the responsibility of putting what we have learned into practice. Do you know it? Do all of you feel it? ('Yes.') Time has come we walk the talk.

In spring, farmers diligently cultivate and seed the soil without stopping in order to obtain sufficient harvests in the autumn. While checking around the field, they talk to and love those seeds, and protect and give fertilizer to them so that they can grow to bring good harvest.

All of you here are church leaders and responsible persons. You have such an important responsibility of harvesting the seeds of life as many as possible. For that sake, you should not have even one day to take a rest. With the heart of parents who care for their children days and nights, I think you should raise each person.

What should you do in order to do that? You have just finished the 3-day workshop. You have been given all the necessary materials for your activities, and listened to testimonies on successful activities. From now on, set your goal every day. You eat three meals a day, but what you have to think more seriously and urgently is to save the life of one person every day.

By 2020, we need to let the world know that this nation is the homeland of the Heavenly Parent, and do you think we can do it with this small membership? We can't, can we? ('No.') This means you need to make more efforts than 10 times and 100 times, and please don't skip even one day for that sake.

I heard that Rev. Young Whi Kim, who is one of the previous presidents of HSA-UWC Korea, had said during the inauguration ceremony of the new president of the Foundation (who is Mr. No Hee Pak) that we must go forward with three organizations united: FFWPU, Foundation and Chung Pyung must be united in the spirit and love of the Heavenly Parent. He is right.

The relationship of the church and our business organizations are like that of mind and body, and 본향원 (Garden of the Original Home) in Chung Pyung where we attend True Father corresponds to Heaven and the head of human body. Therefore, when these three, becoming one, go forward towards one goal in one heart, we will be successful, won't we? So don't waste your time.

Father in his last days asked you to accomplish the responsibility as the Tribal Messiah, which actually he has been saying for a long time. (Holding back her tears) That was what he earnestly asked you to do at the moment of his Seonghwa. You have seen the video clip (Father's Seonghwa), haven't you? Every time you see it, what do you feel?

How many family names do you think we have here today? I would say we have all Korean family names here, don't you think? ('Yes.') If such is the case, when all of you here work hard, we wouldn't have any problem in restoring this nation to Heaven, wouldn't we? ('No.') We wouldn't have any problem. It is possible. We can do it. We have to do it. Which one would be your answer? We have to do it without fail. ('Yes.')

You church leaders, becoming united with members, need to continue to testify True Parents. You have to educate people and make proclamations like the walls that tumbled down in Jericho Then as what happens in spring, all minds and hearts of humans and animals become softened. Don't you think so? To listen to the truth or not will make such a difference. So doing your very best, let all people know the truth without exception, while considering how you can convey the truth and Heaven's will to the people.

All of you are Koreans, chosen people. Korean people will come to have a heavy feeling that they couldn't attend Father while he was on earth, and it is you that can liberate them from such a feeling. How much will they be grateful to you when they come to know Heavenly will?

So if you have people whom you recall in your prayer and thought, do your very best for them. Heaven is with us, and so there is nothing to be afraid of.

When I visited Japan, I said to appoint as many 2nd gen as possible (to public missions). Japanese families are younger than Koreans but there are some adult 2nd gen. Three 2nd gen were assigned as church leaders in the front line and the response of the members was very good. So they said they wanted to assign more 2nd gen to be church leaders. I gave them a nod. I heard, not only in the area that has a foundation of our church, but also in the area where we have few members, they are working hard, united with a 2nd gen leader. I heard also that they are creating harmony in between 1st and 2nd gen leadership. So please raise and send 2nd gen to the front line in Korea as well.

Since 환경창조 (creation of environment) hasn't been done for a long time, many 2nd gen left the church being focused on their personal issues rather than on Heaven's will. But now we must put things in order. If those 2nd gen had been united, we would have had a much easier way towards 2020. Don't you think so? ('Yes.')

All of you as the church leaders have your own children, and your current position is a historical one. There is no doubt, isn't there? If you and your following generations are loyal keeping that position, your family history would be something you can be proud of. I would say your descendants, putting you in such a honorable position, would worship and follow you. Then your family lineage would be honorably and proudly considered.

What kind of position do you think you have? Please don't forget that you are living in the era when you can engrave your name with the honorable status such as filial son or daughter, patriot, saint, and divine son or daughter." (Applause)

(She stood up and said) "Both Father and I like spring. So to encourage you, I will sing a spring song." (Applause)

She sang "봄처녀 (Spring virgin)." After the song, she said, "If Father was here, he would say 'Mother's voice is so beautiful.'" (Laughter and applause) "Do you think so too? ('Yes.')" Then all sang together with Mother "엄마야 누나야 (Mother, sister must)."

The 53rd Holy Wedding Anniversary

Hak Ja Han
April 2013
Las Vegas

Spring has come in our providence. Right? Being April 2013, it is spring. Who do you think are the busiest people in spring? Farmers. Isn't that correct? Are you preparing for the day of hope when we will accomplish the responsibilities given to us by Heaven with a farmer's heart? We often call winter's freezing temperatures "Commander Winter."

Winter is also considered a time of frozen soil. What is spring? Spring is called "Commander Spring" and has spring soil. It is a time when the frozen soil becomes ready to receive seeds. How does the farmer prepare himself? Doesn't he make plans for spring all throughout winter? The farmer would think, what seeds should I plant this spring to have a rich harvest in autumn? Some farmers will follow traditional farming methods, while more educated people will study and try to find ways to use the conveniences of modern civilization to harvest better and more abundant crops.

Suppose you are now farmers for God's will. Your mission, then, as tribal messiahs becomes your farmland. Whether this land becomes fertile or barren will depend on each one of you. Do you realize that?

Therefore, if you are idle in this good season, your autumn harvest will be marginal. Blessings do not come by just sitting still. Do you understand? [Yes]

You watched a short video on True Parents' lives today. If you had not met True Parents, what kind of lives would you have lived? You probably would have led lives attached to the material needs within the set environment of your families and nations. Only a few look around them, aim high, or even think of living for the sake of their nation or the world. As people who have met True Parents, are you aiming high or low? How should elevated people aim high and act? You know how. Right?

Brothers and sisters, the autumn harvest of this providential period will depend upon the efforts and dedication with which you care for your mission. How must you appear, what kind of result do you need to bring to the approaching first anniversary of Father's ascension in order to stand with a heart of gratitude on that clay? I look forward to it. Please work hard!

Our church is like the mind and our businesses correspond to the body

Hak Ja Han
March 22, 2013
Cheon Jeong Gung (CIG Year 1 HC 2.11)

Hak Ja Han – November 22, 2011

Note: These notes are unofficial translation from the text posted on FFWPU Korea web page. They cannot be published as definitive texts and should never be used in the future as an "official" publication of True Parent's words. However, they do provide a good idea of the "spirit" of the message. -- Rev. Katsumi Kambashi

Mother spoke to the leaders of our business organizations that day.

I proclaimed that in 2020 I would offer to Heaven this Korea as the fatherland of God. In order to do that, I need you to fulfill your responsibility and I need your help. When I see the church as an organization, I can compare it to the mind and body. When we think our church is like the mind, our business corresponds to the body. They can't be separated, like the relationship of mind and body, and they must be united. Right? That's why the church organization and the business organization must be one. The body must be healthy and it should work hard completely fulfilling its responsibility and must actively co-operate with what the mind wants to do. Then we can create a healthy individual, church, society, nation and the world which have a healthy mind and body.

In that sense, I would like to give you an opportunity in which you can do your very best. Before 2020, what I want to do the most is to make The museum of the Life of True Parents. Humankind has met the Second Advent, whom they had been eagerly waiting for 2,000 years, haven't they? People will know this fact soon. They will soon know that they cannot develop further using their old lifestyle and teachings.

True Father as the Savior, Lord of the Second Advent, and True Parent, for whom heaven and humankind had been waiting for six thousand years, came on this earth and restored so much providential history. But when I reflect on Father's Seonghwa, we, the Unification Church and its' members have been so insignificant and couldn't make Father known to the world. That's been so regretful for me. It is obvious that our descendants would have difficulties when we don't fulfill our responsibilities. That's why you 1st gens, by all means, must open the new era during your life time and let people know that the Second Advent and True Parent has come and gone. It has already been six months since Father's Seonghwa. How much efforts have you made in looking for new life which is your responsibility? Your life from now on is also shorter than the period you have lived as of now.

7 billion people live on earth now. It would be more than 7 billion. When all these people, who lived with us in the same age, go to the spirit world without knowing True Parents and the truth, how much do you think they would cry their hearts out? You wouldn't be able to have any excuse when they say "Why didn't you tell me this while we lived on earth?" When you don't fulfill your responsibility, your descendants will have to pay indemnity. You are all Blessed families and I believe you understand through the teachings and words of True Parents that you should fulfill your responsibility. That's why, having chosen, not only Korea but also at least 43 other nations in the world, we need to restore by 2020. I am speeding up the progress.

I wish all of you to participate in it. To remain in the current situation won't work. You, without fail, investing all your Jung Sung, wisdom, and everything you have, should make the business you are responsible for, perfect during this period of heavenly grace. Your business should be able to contribute to the will of Heavenly Parent. Husband and wife, being united with each other, must do witnessing too. You must develop your business by fulfilling your responsibility. Only our success will open the way for our descendants to go forward. Don't forget this. Do you understand? ("Yes.") All of you need to participate in making the museum of the life of Father. It would be a (True Parents') history museum. We should make the museum as the masterpiece, the only one and the best in the world. We need to make it in such a way so that all humankind comes to see the life and history of True Parents and vividly understand how much True Parents tried to embrace all humanity.

You understand why I established the Universal Peach Academy. A great poet Tagore from India, 150 years ago praised Korea. What did he see and feel when he made the poem? He wrote "In the golden age of Asia, Korea was one of its lamp-bearers. And that lamp is waiting to be lighted once again. For the illumination in the East." He understood Heaven's providence. The True Owner and the Second Messiah came to Korea, which makes Korea shine to the world. What else can Korea be proud of? The fact that you had your life attending True Parents in this era is a great blessing and grace to your descendants and ancestors. You shouldn't keep such blessings only within yourself. You need to lead a life for the sake of others. You need to be the one who make neighbors peaceful and happy and should expand further such an environment.

Therefore, in front of Heaven that opened the era of Cheon Il Guk, we, who live in this era, have a mission to bring back all humankind as the citizens of the Cheon Il Guk. There cannot be "failure" in your life from now on. Do you understand? ("Yes.") Only "success" is our way to go. Can all of you promise to become victors in front of Heaven and all humanity? ("Yes.") So, for you the heads of our business organizations please practice such life with your family first before anybody else. I would like to put you in such position where you will have been able to contribute to the great will of Heavenly Parent. Do you welcome this? ("Yes." Applause)

Recently, I have had more concerns about my grandchildren and I am educating 2nd and 3rd gens on how to pray every morning and evening. "하늘 부모님 감사합니다 / Heavenly Parent, thank you." This is the first phrase, and then "천지인 참부모님의 참사랑을 실천하는 / to practice true love of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind." You need to practice in your life, don't you? Then "효자, 충신, 성자의 도리를 다 하는 / perfect the duty of a devoted son (or daughter), patriot, and divine son (or daughter)." Then, for example, in my family, "효손 문신준이 되겠습니다 / I, Shin Jun Moon, will become a filial grandson" If they are the 2nd gens, they say "I pray this in my name, a second generation member of a Blessed family." If they are the 3rd gens, they also pray accordingly. This is "환경창조 / creation of environment." After Heavenly Parent created the universe and then Adam and Eve, they could converse with Heavenly Parent asking and answering questions. This was before the fall.

Our culture needs to be reborn through the truth starting within the family. Two days ago, I spoke to Korean elders and Itinerary workers, and one of them was a Korean-Japanese couple who had some difficulties. They have a 10-year-old son, who eagerly read the Divine Principle and the Cheon Seong Gyeong and he continues doing it. I heard all their environments came to be put in order without them realizing it. The reason I said this is because I hope you really feel that the spirit world is now working amazingly on earth since Father's Seonghwa. We are fully equipped to make everything happen. But why haven't you succeeded? The problems lie in each of you.

Through this gathering today, you must be determined to establish the Heavenly Tradition. You need to become the ones who live always attending True Parents. I guess you know your results depend on how much you sincerely attend True Parents in your daily life and in your business. When you live for the sake of others with absolute faith, absolute love and absolute obedience, a great blessing of Heaven will be with you. Do you understand? ("Yes.") I held this gathering hoping you will become the leaders who make such efforts and lead a successful life. (Applause)

The Prayer of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind

Hak Ja Han
March 20, 2013
Special Assembly of Elders
Cheon Jeong Gung (CIG Year 1 HC 2.9)

Note: These notes are taken from a Peace TV video clip. They cannot be published as definitive texts and should never be used in the future as an "official" publication of True Parent's words. However, they do provide a good idea of the "spirit" of the message. -- Rev. Katsumi Kambashi

True Mother spoke to the Korean National Messiahs and the former Boon Bong Wangs.

"Most of you who gathered here today are 60 to 70, 80 years old, aren't you? When I think of it, I would say that you, in your life course, are at the crossroads which is closer to the spirit world. Don't you think so?

The rest of your life, which is much shorter than the period you have lived, is now waiting for you. You are all like my age, and sooner or later we go to the spirit world and so I think we need to lead a life preparing ourselves for it.

In the early days, Father, working with you, gave you lots of words, and you are the ones who participated to some degree in all the works he unfolded. Looking back on those years, in front of Heavenly Parent's will and Father, we can't say that we have fulfilled our responsibilities.

More than six months have passed since Father's Seonghwa, and it has been almost one month after Foundation Day. But how have we been different? Foundation Day is, simply put, an unprecedented event since the beginning of the world. That is the day Heavenly Parent and humankind had been waiting for, but (holding back her tears) our foundation and we ourselves were so insignificant in front of Heaven. Don't you think so?

However it was true too that because of you we could hold such a day. But we can't afford being satisfied with that. First of all, we could not create a significant environment in front of Heaven and Father. I often say 'Creation of environment' (환경창조). Reflecting on the past, we are lacking so much in front of Heavenly Parent and our descendants in the future. This is surely true.

Our earthly life remains shorter than we have lived. I think we should become the ones who can respond to Heavenly grace and love, accomplishing in the rest of our life what we couldn't have done in the past.

Father especially proclaimed that Korea is the fatherland of Heavenly Parent. We should not leave his words unfulfilled. This nation should be the substantial Cheon Il Guk that we can offer to Heaven. What do we have to do for that sake?

When this nation is governed by Heavenly law which is beyond the national law, it would be easier to restore the rest of the world. It is true that we have many restrictions in our activities in many countries. But in the era of Cheon Il Guk that Heaven has opened, (when you have) the results which you will have had working with me for 10 years, 20 years or 30 years, Heavenly Parent would say to you 'You are great. It was you,' when you go back to Heavenly Parent. That is what I hope for.

Recently I have been intensively educating my grandchildren. Since Father and I have lived like we were in a war period, I couldn't create an environment for my children. But now I am doing the 'creation of environment' (환경창조)' for my grandchildren. A few days ago, I announced and gave to my grandchildren and all 2nd gens in the world the 'Prayer of the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind (천지인참부모 기도문).' It is '하늘부모님 감사합니다. 사랑합니다. 천지인 참부모님의 참사랑의 전통을 이어받는 효자, 충신, 성자의 도리를 다하는 축복가정2세 000이 되겠습니다. (축복가정3세 000이 되겠습니다.)'

'Heavenly Parent, I thank you and I love you.' I, (one's name), will become a 2nd gen (or 3rd gen) who inherit the tradition of true love established by the True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind, and perfect the duty of filial son (or daughter), patriot, and divine son (or daughter).

(Katsumi: Mother didn't mention 'saint / 성인' in her speech.)

I told them to pray this way, which has the essential contents, every morning and evening, like reciting a mantra. I want them to think big.

We are now about realizing the hope and dream that Heavenly Parent had when creating the environment first and then Adam and Eve. But we can't say that we 1st and 2nd gens could fulfill our responsibilities in front of Heaven. We have been so insignificant and made many mistakes. But we have the last responsibility to fulfill. No matter if we are good or not good, there is Heavenly Parent who has a hope for us.

In 2020, let's offer to Heaven this nation, Korea, the fatherland of Heavenly Parent so that Heavenly Parent can proudly proclaim 'This is my nation.' Aren't you excited? Before you die, you can have a role in offering the fatherland of Heavenly Parent, and when you go to the spirit world, Father would say, 'Oh you came here now. You became the role model as a filial son (or daughter), a patriot, a saint, and a divine son (or daughter), obtaining great results doing your very best while attending True Mother. I am proud of you.' I would like to put you into such a blessed position, but will you do it? ('Yes.') Will you do it? ('Yes.')

I am determined to be finished as soon as possible with the Chung Pyung Project, before 2020. Will you help me? ('Yes.') First of all, we should make the 'Museum of the Life of True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind (천지인참부모 생애 박물관).' Also I would like to make the 'Cultural Center for 2nd and 3rd Gens (2세 3세를 위한 문화회관),' which is important for our descendants in the future.

After we make the wonderful museum, I, providing the expressway connected to the top of the Cheon Jeong Gung, want to see the crowds without a break from the ramp to the museum. That is my heart. Think big like that in order to have such a day in your earthly life. Do you understand? ('Yes.')

Then I hope you will do your best without listening more to me. In this era, the words '사생결단 전력투구 (risking one's life investing all)' must become a tasteful dish that you want to have every day. I said you need to lead a life of gratitude, didn't I?

We have been so lacking when we think what grace we received from Heaven. When you deal with all things with a sincere gratitude, peace, freedom and happiness come to you. Unification can take place. Do you understand? Hoping you will do your best, I will observe you with gratitude.

Father accomplished lots internally and externally and I want to trim and put them into order, and establish the tradition. I will make it perfect so that nobody can change it later.

You are happy people since I am here. Do you know that? ('Yes.') 

Universal Peace Academy Opens

Hak Ja Han
March 4, 2013

Universal Peace Academy has gained its first recruits. True Mother, who rapidly set the idea for such an academy in motion, attended the Opening Ceremony.

The students were also welcomed by Dr. Chang Shik Yang, overall chairman of FFWPU-Korea, Cheongshim Theological School President Jin Hun Kim, UPAcademy President In Guk Shin and faculty member Bong Cho Kwang.

The students are all college graduates who will begin pursuing a master's degree in theology.

The First Entrance Ceremony of UPAcademy

Hak Ja Han
March 4, 2013

"All the people who are here offered their gratitude and congratulatory remarks to heavenly parents. I truly welcome all the 43 UPAcademy students to this school. (Applause)

For 5 years from today, you will experience the truth and life of faith in various fields. That experience will not only be the light of your life but the light for the 7 billion people on this earth.

Heaven has blessed this nation Korea, especially True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind blessed Korea as the kingdom of God. You cannot just stand still and mumble words. Right now, the leaders and organization leaders have the responsibility to apply the principle. I said that by 2020 Korea must become the home country of heavenly parents. Would it be done just by proclaiming it? For that to happen you must work hard. You must be on your feet and move. You who were born with truth and words must be the light for humanity. Do you understand? ("Yes!")

The students who enrolled today will be the first people to be engraved in the pages of history. It is a day that have been yearned for by heaven and humanity. Please feel this and study very hard. Heaven will help you. You mustn't become people who will carry burden in front of heaven and humanity. Your youth and ambition will be nourishment for the establishment of Cheon Il Guk. You will become pillars for the establishment of Cheon Il Guk. Our purpose is very clear. We put you in the position of the first fruition for the establishment of Cheon Il Guk of a new history, era and you must work hard for the completion of the providence until the end of your life. Isn't this something to be proud of? ("Yes!") (applause)

Please do your best as you just pledged. If you do so then who do you think will be there with you? True Parents of Heaven, Earth and Humankind will always be with you. What would you become when you go to places? You will become the light. You will light the dark world. Do you understand? ("Yes!") Are you going to grow into such person? ("Yes!") Then can I end my words by offering gratitude to heavenly parents?" (Applause) 

You See a New Heaven and a New Earth

Hak Ja Han
February 28, 2013
National Leaders' World Assembly
Cheon Jeong Gung

National leaders in front of Cheon Jeong Gung

Do you want me to speak? [Yes.] How many are here today? [Two hundred and twenty people.] Are all 220 church leaders? [Yes.] Or church directors?

Are you aware of being happy in that you are among the chosen people? How did you come to be chosen from among the world's 7 billion people? There are many great people in the world. Many world-renowned people did not know about the larger providence but nonetheless made effort to live in goodness. That being the case, how did you come across the Unification Church and learn about True Parents? Isn't it almost like a dream, and shouldn't you be grateful for it? [Yes.]

We celebrated Foundation Day a few days ago, and you saw a new heaven and a new earth. Didn't you? [Yes.] Also, you are standing at the center of this great change. Isn't that a miracle? [Yes.] You have received this unimaginable grace and blessing. Who brought that about? Who brought you here? It was through True Parents' grace. Wasn't it? [Yes.]

That is why I told you that you should live for at least three weeks with gratitude in your hearts, gratitude from your bone marrow. For the rest of your lives, until your days on earth are over and you have passed on into the next world, you should have ardent gratitude in your hearts, thinking to yourselves that you are thankful for all that you have been given in spite of the fact that you are unworthy in many ways.

This period is one in which it is as if we are creating the universe under our Heavenly Parent. Do you understand? With our grand goal of the establishment of Cheon Ii Guk, we are now creating the universe. What kind of beings do you wish to become? Do you wish to become the sun or the moon?

Based on your resolve and actions, the creation of the universe is substantially taking place through your own bodies, something that you could not possibly imagine or believe. When you consider this, you should realize that you are not in a position in which you can just sit still and only think about it...

Recently, a Korean singer became a worldwide hit with some strange dance; he became a top global star within a year. You too should be greatly excited and moved in your hearts to such an extent that you don't know what to do with your- selves and your bodies move of their own accord. In other words, you should translate your feelings into action, begrudging even the hours you sleep, you should do your best to share this excitement, gratitude and blessing with others. Do you realize this or not? [Yes.] Are you determined to do it? [Yes.]

This is truly the first and the last opportunity in your lives. You are at the center of this amazing blessing of creating the universe with our Heavenly Parent. What beings will you be made into? You are in a position where you can be praised by your future descendants for generations and generations to come. Depending on your actions, you will be made into new beings. Would you settle for becoming a lower being?

Wouldn't you rather be created into a higher animal, a superior symbol of all created things? You should go down in history as a being that when seen is boasted of and praised again and again. Heaven has given you an opportunity to become such a being. However, what will happen if you cannot fulfill your responsibilities?

Father said repeatedly that all leaders' meetings should be conducted in Korean. Will you not fulfill the last wish of a man who is no longer in the world? It is something you can actually do if you make up your mind to do it. If you think it is difficult to learn Korean, you could start by learning Korean songs.

I have seen many of our members succeed in this task. When they tried to learn, they did learn. In my opinion, the country that has the least aptitude for learning languages is Japan, yet many Japanese people learned to speak Korean fluently.

Won't you set yourself this challenge in this era of Cheon II Guk? [Yes.] You can do it. Repeat after me: We can do it! [We can do it!] I will do it! [I will do it!] That's right. We have set ourselves the goal of restoring God's fatherland in seven years. In this regard, it is only right that we should speak and understand the language of God's fatherland. Is that clear? [Yes.]

Don't stop. There is no one who can stop a person in progress. Doing something constantly and making effort to do it depends on whether you are determined to do it or not. There is one fact that you should have confidence in: You are happy people. Why? Because you have me. Do you understand that? [Yes. Applause] I am not being boastful; it is the plain truth. Isn't it? [Yes.]

If I had not been here for Foundation Day, would you have achieved it? You wouldn't have. Would you have? [No.] Therefore, I hope we can live this one month with grateful hearts.

I also pray that during the time that remains for us, you will all achieve great results and become shining winners. [Mother makes a pun on a homonym that can mean either "light" or "debt."] Brightness! You need to become bright people and bright leaders.

When we think about our Heavenly Parent, our hearts ache so much that they hurt. He has waited for so long, and I am here alone for Foundation Day.... [Mother becomes tearful.]

So I will establish the tradition of the Heavenly Parent and True Parents on the solid Rock of Ages. Do you understand? [Yes.]

We serve the eternally unchanging Heavenly Parent and True Parents. Don't you know that? [Yes.] As long as our Parent is with us, our traditions will be established on a solid rock, and we will most definitely be in the position to receive eternal reverent respect as sons and daughters of Cheon II Guk and as citizens of Cheon II Guk that have fulfilled our responsibilities. Do you understand? [Yes.]

To make this come to pass, we need to march forward. We need to begrudge every passing moment. While you are still here on earth, we need to mobilize all our wisdom and all our resources to bring, as quickly as possible, the world's 7 billion people to become citizens of Cheon II Guk so that they can all be embraced in Heaven's bosom. Is that clear? [Yes.] [Applause] If you pledge to do that, raise both your hands and vow to do so in front of our Heavenly Parent. [Aju! We vow to do it! [We vow to do it!] We will make it happen at all costs. [We will make it happen at all costs.] We promise. [We promise.] Thank you. [Applause]

Where Is Your Hometown?

Hak Ja Han
February 28, 2013
Cheon Jeong Gung

To some of the earliest members of the Unification Church

I want to see from close up how the years have changed you. You have changed much. I thought I was the only one who had aged. Welcome.

If I were to say a few words, I would first like to ask you, where is your hometown? Where is your birthplace? Is it Korea? What ties do you have to your birthplace? I was born in North Korea, and I only have memories of living there until the age of six. How about you?

In the report Rev. Yang gave a while ago, he said that he had decided to send you to pioneer your hometowns, but when he checked, he found that more than 90 percent of them were no longer there.

That being the case, where do you wish your hometown to be? Well? Do you wish it to be Jeongju or Anju? [Yes]

You are just saying that because that's where I'm from. That's what I think. For most of you, it has been fifty or sixty years since you joined our church. Wherever it was, the place where you first found and joined the Unification Church all those years ago could be called your hometown, couldn't it? Isn't that so? Don't you think so?

At that time, were any one of you unexcited and not delighted or grateful in your heart to see Father and hear his message? You were. Weren't you? You were all excited. Weren't you? You had met the Lord who brought a new, true life to you in this fallen world, so you must have been excited. Isn't that true? There are many Christians in the world and many believers of other religions as well, but we alone came to know of Heaven's providence and met the Lord before others. Isn't this something to be grateful for?

What did you do next, then? Rather than keeping it to yourself, didn't you wish to share it with others? You wanted to witness to others. Didn't you? Well, did you? Did you actually go out to do that?

Looking at the larger picture, we can see that we have received deep grace and blessings from Heaven. We have received blessings that we could not have even imagined as fallen human beings. For one, the fact that we have separated ourselves from Satan is a great blessing in itself. The fact that you came to know me is in itself a miracle.

In the three years of his public life, Jesus traveled back and forth in Israel, a small nation. Some time ago, I visited Israel and toured the nation by car. It took only four hours to see everything in it. Haven't you ever thought to yourselves that we too are only going around in circles in such a small environment? What do you think?

Is the environment of fifty or sixty years ago similar to the environment of today, or different? Answer me.

Some of you here are younger than I am. Therefore, if I had one wish it would be to reignite the yearning you felt in your hearts for the homeland at the time when the church was in its beginning and help it to bear fruit, and then take you with me. Would you like that? [Yes. Applause] Will you do that?

It has been almost six months since True Father's Seonghwa Ceremony. When I look back after all this time, I cannot help feeling that we are so unworthy. We did so little for him.

If we only stay where we are and do nothing, there will be no way for you to avoid accusations from the 7 billion people of the world and your descendants.

I heard that a devout member who offers many devotions had a vision of the spirit world and saw that Father was having so much trouble there because of the blessed families who were in the spirit world. What do you think is the meaning of this?

You know that after the fall of Adam and Eve, Heaven's providence of salvation has continued until now with much difficulty. Don't you?

And the history of True Parents, which began in 1960, has also been providential history of restoration through indemnity. We could not move forward without paying indemnity. You are well aware of that. Aren't you? True Parents shouldered all the burdens of fallen humanity and resolved them all. What did you do? You only received.

When you think that as an elder blessed couple you are not being treated right, you feel dissatisfied, and no matter what the situation is in the church, you only think about yourselves -- even those of you who formerly worked as church leaders. If I were to ask you to close your eyes and raise your hands if you could say in good conscience that your thoughts were 100 percent about God's will and the providence, I'm sure that not one of you could raise your hand.

Father, on the other hand, is working desperately to open the way to the era of Cheon II Guk. You have now been given this last chance to show filial piety to your parents and make up for all that you failed to do until now. When the time comes for us to go to our hometown and homeland in the eternal world, don't you want to go there with pride?

I want you all to be in the position of a victor. Therefore, I want to establish you as blessed couples and elder members that are free from accusation or indemnity. Will you help me do that? [Yes. Applause]