How is everybody doing? Okay?
Father will be back soon. You know where he is, right? I am happy because Father told me that I do not have to go to the Seminary anymore. My duty over there is finished, I guess. He said, “Just focus on what you are doing again. Thank you.” We have to transform America. That has been our goal ever since Father came here. I think we can achieve this goal by using mass media and multi-media.
Father wanted me to focus on it, maybe because he trusts me now. Perhaps he thinks I am capable of doing it. He told me to focus on that from now on. I told him, “Yes, I will do that, Father.” That is where my heart is.
I am grateful that Father now believes in me enough to give me what I want because what I want is to make him happy. I guess that is all I wanted throughout my life: my Father’s acknowledgment of who I am. I am his son, who loves him very much. That is the kind of recognition I longed for the most.
Maybe that is why I felt pain many times when I did not recognize it with my nearsightedness and my simple-mindedness. Sometimes it is difficult when you have to recognize all these things on your own. When people are struggling and failing all around him, it is pretty difficult to find yourself in the middle of this suffering and chaos. After all, we are living in a fallen world, aren’t we? Nobody said it was easy.
Understand our uniqueness
Do you like yourself? Can you honestly say, “I know who I am and what I am capable of doing?” Do you understand your uniqueness? When you think about love, do you want ordinary love or do you want extraordinary love? Are you an ordinary person or an extraordinary person?
Look at yourself: how extraordinary are you? Even people in this world want to see exceptional people. They look for such people as role models.
What is exceptional about us? What is extraordinary? What makes us different?
We do have commonalities: we have basic emotions that we all understand and share, emotions that are innate within all of us. What makes us extraordinary? I am sure that when Father looks at all of us, all his children, he sees exceptionality in each of us. I am sure that in his heart Father wants each of us to manifest the uniqueness that we possess within ourselves.
All seeds look pretty much alike. Unless you are an expert like God, you cannot understand what a plain old seed will turn out to be when it is fully grown. Will it turn out to be a big tree or will it turn out to be just a simple, fragile flower?
You cannot tell unless you understand the world of seeds. There are so many kinds of seeds out there that grow into so many different kinds of plants.
Everything has a special function that contributes to this world and keeps this world in balance and harmony. Suppose you chop down all the trees in the rainforest and start planting just one kind of tree, what would happen to this earth? Suppose you get rid of all the different plants and start planting only grass everywhere. What would happen? I do not know, maybe we should try it!
Is it God’s design for us to chop down all the trees, cut off the different types of plants, and just plant one kind of tree and one kind of grass? Shall we dig up all the minerals, grind them up, and make them into one rock? Do you think that is what God wants?
What is your exceptional point? What makes you extraordinary? Do you know?
That is the problem: we have been here too long and we have not done too much.
Love is action
I do not talk about myself so much. I do not even talk to my parents about myself, and certainly, I do not say anything to my brothers and sisters. Sometimes Father asks me, “How are you doing?” I answer, “I am doing okay.” That is how our conversations normally end. In my heart, I feel like I am being misunderstood.
Recently, Father came twice and saw for himself. He started forming his opinion, based on what he saw. Father believes that love is action. If you manifest that kind of love, sooner or later you do not have to try to explain things. Misunderstandings will disappear by themselves, because of the power of love. However long misunderstandings may last, eventually, they will die. Misunderstandings are temporary.
I have said many times that I do not believe in satisfaction. But I realize that even in satisfaction there is duality: plus and minus, positive and negative. I tried to deny myself a positive satisfaction, but I allowed myself a negative satisfaction, and that is hatred. I accepted it and was satisfied. I did not try to go any further. In a way, such satisfaction is an acceptance of limitations. Whatever you have concluded, you feel fine with it. You want to settle with that: “I can live with this.” That is what I did.
I was wrong. I needed that unconditional loving heart. I should have waited longer.
I waited eight years. So what? You have to love one another for eternity. If eight years is your limit, when you reach that point you will inevitably say, “That is it.”Then, that is your limitation in loving somebody. You can only love somebody for that long, within that kind of negative reality. This world is a negative reality. If I constantly struggle with negativity daily, I can only last eight years. That is my limitation. I recognized that I did not practice my own beliefs, so I repented. I was wrong.
Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon
Do you like Father? (Yes.) Do you want to give him your best? (Yes.) Why do you like Father? Because he fills your lack? Is that the only reason you like Father?
I have been thinking, what if Father and Mother did not consummate their love at the moment of my conception? What if they got together the day before or the day after? Do you think I would be standing here? No. It would be someone else standing here. If they did not consummate love in that split second, do you think I would be here? Probably not. Not this guy at least. Someone else would be standing here representing the position of Father’s elder son. Who made that choice? Father and Mother, right?
Commonality and uniqueness
Of course, God gave us the ability to bear children, the power of procreation. That is our prerogative and that is one of the most beautiful things God has given us. It is the greatest blessing: that we can give life to another divine being. Beautiful! We can create a divine being, a person who might someday find a cure for cancer or become a world-class leader, someone who might change and mold the nation the way God wants that nation to be. You never know, but you have that potential.
That is a great blessing. Think about it. We are not like animals who are dwelling on instincts all their life.
To me, commonality lies only in the heart, not in the body or mind. The only thing that human beings have in common is heart and love, not the body and the physical mind. Why? Because we are unique. Only animals look alike physically.
We are not animals. We are human beings. I want variety and diversity. The only commonality is that we can love one another, we can understand love and the nature of love, and we can practice that love regardless of our differences because we have the power to make intelligent choices.
Intelligence is pretty selfish, always selfish. It looks toward obscurity and wants to know the answer. Knowledge is clarity, definition is clarity. The physical emotions and body are controlled by intelligence, and intelligence is controlled by the conscience and spirit. When you decipher something and analyze its content, your conscience tells you in which direction you should move it.
I want to offer my best to my father, whatever that is, so I have to find out what that is. That is the only way to be pious toward your parents, who gave you something unique, the treasure that only you possess. You have to go and find that treasure.
You have to go into yourself and find out what makes you uniquely different that can bring beauty to this world and inspire the people of this world to love one another. What can I be best at, in the shortest amount of time? Because we do not live too long, you have to find yourself quickly.
Even when you find yourself, it takes time to manifest it. Let’s say you have the blueprint. Let’s say Albert Einstein came out with the theory of relativity. How long did it take him to prove it, to manifest it? Even if you have the concept of what is right, it takes time to prove it. How old are you? How long do you think you are going to live? You had better start thinking seriously about your uniqueness and what makes you extraordinary. That is what you have to give to your Father.
Nothing else is important, because it is only out of love that these things come out. You have to give that back.
The moment when your parents consummated love is unique. It will never happen again, even within a family, brothers and sisters. The time of the consummation of love that made us is different; it is never the same. That moment is unique, even within my family. Corresponding to that moment of uniqueness, I must find what is unique in me and give it back. That is love. You must give what parents have initiated, the love that they have initiated. You must return what they gave you.
What is your extraordinary point?
If you do not know, I do not want to work with you. If you do not know, I have to be your babysitter. I am not going to be anybody’s babysitter You are your own man, your own woman, your person. You take care of yourself, I take care of myself. I do not like coming here because I do not see too many unique people.
You must give that back. I think Father deserves the best, right?
Offer people a role model
There are so many people out there who have little worlds, their little societies.
Your children even have their language. In America, we all speak some form of English, but there are so many different varieties-Jive, Konglish [Korean-English], Jinglish [Japanese-English]. People try to interpret things in their own way because we are all unique. Even within a race, there are so many partialities, in terms of how people form a group or how they came to be gregarious. There are so many varieties, and they all choose something into which to mold some particular trait, some role model. We need lots and lots of different role models in this world.
We need a role model for the spike-headed, Mohawk, pink-headed, and purple-headed kids. We need a role model for them too, somebody to which they can relate. As they relate to that role model, they can understand about Father and God.
Let’s say Ku Klux Klan members are having dinner in their house, wearing their ridiculous clown suits, and a black man dressed as a pimp knocks on their door.
However, what would happen if they opened the door and saw you wearing the same ridiculous white outfit as them? Unknown to them, you may be a black man with only the whites of your eyes showing. Do you think you could get in there?
Who has a better chance of getting into that guy’s house: a black guy wearing a pimp outfit or a black guy wearing the same monkey outfit? That is right. War is war, okay? In war, the end justifies the means.
Take responsibility
Look, am I responsible for all this crap? Did I make this world like this? Did I make American people enslave black people for 400 years? No. And it is my responsibility? Did I cause all this crap? Did I cause Cain to kill his brother?
No, I did not cause it, but I am responsible for the effect. Let’s restore this mess. I am responsible. I did not cause all this, but I am responsible for it. In my life, there are no excuses. Things did not have to turn out this way, but I learned from first-hand experience. I know it. I know everything from the lowest point in hell on up.
Even when I was at that point, I did not just fall and give up. I climbed. Now Father recognizes me. I have found my place and earned my place in his heart and his eyes. I have redeemed myself to my position, by myself. Father says, “Before God, Father and Son are equal.” He never before used the word “equal” to describe the father-son relationship. Yeah, that is right.
Dr. Sun Myung Moon
I want unique people. You have to find yourself. Give me your best. I try to give to you unconditionally. I had to find answers to those stupid questions I had in my mind. You cannot give me anything I want, because I do not want anything. I can take care of myself. I am not going to be dependent on anybody. I do not change.
Everybody else changes. Give me your best, because that is what Parents deserve.
Piety is finding what is unique within yourself and giving that back. They gave it to you. Give that back! Whatever it is that made you unique, give it back. I found my uniqueness. I am going to make it the best that I can make it, and I will give it back. I swear to you, God.
I will sacrifice the greatest, but with that sacrifice, I know I will have the one moment of satisfaction that a person can only have in this lifetime. Why? Adam and Eve fell.
Knowing that possibility, how can you be satisfied when your children can fall? Satisfaction happens only once in this lifetime. Right before you die, look over your life in retrospect and think about all the things that you have done for the sake of love “Yes, I found myself. I did my best to manifest that uniqueness and I gave it selflessly to this world. Yes, I have fulfilled my responsibility.” You can then die. To be content is to stagnate. You cannot feel contentment until that last moment before you die. If you want to be satisfied, die now.
You have to do unthinkable things; you have to prove the unthinkable to yourself and everybody else if you want to change the world. There are ten kinds of big game in North America and they all converge in one state: Colorado. I want that state.
Do your best. Find whatever it is that makes you great, that gives you your moment of glory. Everybody has that. Then give it to God; give it to Parents.
I believe in humility. Glory is only for a moment. I will not be satisfied with what is momentary: I want eternity. Eternity is immeasurable, and glory is measured. I do not want glory. I just want love, endless joy, and a beautiful dream that does not end. I do not like to dream because when you wake up and see this fallen world it makes you more miserable. I would rather have nightmares because then this world looks good.
Take care of yourself. Find out what you possess that might make you unique, that might give you that moment of glory, and give it to True Parents. So, take care of yourselves, okay? Let me recognize your greatness, too. Let me see it! I want to see it. Do not tell me, show it to me. Is that a promise? (Yes.) Thank you.
Hyo Jin Nim
