This speech was read by Mrs. Gil-ja Sa, representing Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, at the Second National Assembly of the National Women's Federation, held on February 24, 1988, at the Cheongpa-dong Headquarters Church in Seoul.
Beloved Women's Federation leaders from throughout the nation, I am sure that you will accomplish many great, honorable achievements on the front line, moving us closer to certain victory in the providential, holy work to bring unity to North and South Korea, unifying our homeland.
Ladies! It is important how we lived in the past and how we are living according to the Will in the present, but we cannot help but also think about how we can understand the future and leave behind outstanding results. The world is excited to have reached the eagerly anticipated year of 1988.
We who have followed the Will have achieved the unification of the tribe, and now, going beyond the people, we have our sights on the unification of the nation, of the world, and of heaven and earth. For you who are part of the Unification movement, there is nothing that happens by chance.
February 13, 1988, was a day for our movement to celebrate. Centered on God, four generations were established, and centered on True Parents, three generations were established.
Do you think it was a coincidence that we could experience such a day as a reality in our lifetimes?
Burning tears of love flow out from deep in my heart, and a song of gratitude is exploding from the profound depths of my heart and wrapping around me.
Ladies! How did you feel?
The 6,000 years of the sorrow-filled history of the providence of restoration; the 43 years of the thorny path of history that True Father could not talk about! How can they be expressed in words? If you call out, "Father," loud wailing comes out ahead of the words. Ladies!
What I want to say here today is that for you who are in the Unification movement, nothing can happen by chance. That is to say, no one can deny that as the owners of the past and the owners of the present, we are the people who will become the owners of the future.
I know that you probably have many things that you wonder about me. I will resolve the things you are wondering about. When looking at the central figures of providential history, we can see the importance of their roles as well as their mothers' roles.
Based on the roles of Abraham, Jacob, Moses, and others, and the roles of their wives and mothers, a new historical beginning was achieved by each of them at their respective ages, and they prospered.
However, internally, because of misery and suffering, a history of bitter sorrow has been the reality. My birth and life up until this day were not by chance either. Moreover, I have come to think that the maternal lineage has more historical meaning than the paternal lineage.
Father also knows that, before the liberation of Korea, the famous Christian pastor, Rev. Ho Bin Lee, received a revelation and matched and married my father and mother. The revelation said that the two of them should be blessed in marriage and that the baby who would be born to them would be the coming Lord.
Going back a little further, I can tell you about Grandmother Jo, my maternal grandmother. There is a story about a stone Maitreya Buddha statue that is connected to Grandmother Jo's family village in Jeongju County, North Pyeongan Province.
True Father has said that during his childhood, he and his brothers touched the Maitreya Buddha and played there. This is a story of living history. A nation remembers a filial son who lives for the sake of his parents and family; Similarly, Heaven considered one of Grandmother Jo's ancestors in the Jo clan to be highly precious.
When the nation was going through difficulties, he invested all his wealth, and he saved the face of the nation by building a stone bridge. Heaven remembered his great offering, and it helped to prepare the lineage for me to be born through Grandmother Hong.
You know well the kind of devoted life this grandmother lived. If we consider the generations up to when I was born, we were families with only one daughter for three generations. All the sacrifices in our family were made to meet the coming Lord.
If we follow the Word, we can become great ancestors.
Grandmother Jo met True Father at the Chungpa-Dong Church in the late 1950s. She was elderly and, because of a family situation, she went to the spirit world without being able to attend the 1960 Holy Wedding Ceremony.
Grandmother Jo appeared to a Buddhist nun, named Yoo, who said that Grandmother Jo was working anxiously to prepare for the True Parents to ascend to the throne. At that time, many revelations came, but the Buddhist nun Ms. Yoon died without having been able to fulfill her five percent portion of responsibility.
Grandmother Jo gave revelations again, through a Unificationist of Buddhist descent, and working through this person, she was able to complete all the things she had wanted to prepare before this person died.
Could we say these kinds of events happened by chance?
Now, the relationship between the spirit world and the physical world is closer because of the work of True Parents and Heung-jin, but at the beginning of 1960, it was difficult. Thinking this would be a good lesson and a guideline for us, I have told you these things.
Someone who lives only for himself or who thinks only of the present will, of course, not endure in the past, the present, or the future, and will not be able to establish a tradition. Ladies, we are very happy people.
You have to think, "How could I be born at this time, in this nation, and at this moment to be able to breathe together with the True Parents?
If I just follow the Word, the Will, and what has been shown, I too can become a great ancestor.
I should not forget even in my dreams, and I should work at every moment to fulfill my responsibilities – the unification of Korea, North-South unification, the liberation of God, the liberation of the True Parents – I have to do all of them."
Think proudly about being a woman whose light can shine on the path of history. I hope you will become proud daughters, proud mothers, and proud wives.
Sun Myung Moon