Peace Message by Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon
I invite you to enter into a mystical state and prayerfully ask God, “What is the
center of the universe?” The answer you hear will undoubtedly be, “the parentchild
relationship.” Nothing is more important or more precious than the
relationship between parent and child. This is because it defines the fundamental
relationship between the Creator God and human beings.
Then, what defines the parent-child relationship? Three things: love, life and
lineage.
The first is love. We can love with true love because God, our True Parent, first
loved us with true love. God created human beings out of His absolute love, to be
His partners in love. This relationship forms an axis of love, linking God the Father
with human beings as His sons and daughters.
Is there anything higher or more precious than to be a son or daughter of God?
If anything were higher, then surely human beings would aspire to attain it. But
there is nothing higher. Do you think that when the omniscient and omnipotent God
created Adam and Eve, He secretly reserved the highest position for Himself and
made Adam and Eve to be only second best? We cannot imagine that God would do
that to His children, to His partners who share absolute love with Him.
As our eternal True Parent, God invested Himself 100 percent into the creation
of human beings and endowed us with the right to have equal status with Him, to
participate in His work as equals, to live with Him, and to inherit from Him. God
bestowed upon human beings all of His attributes.
Though God is the Absolute Being, He cannot be happy alone. Adjectives such
as “good” and “happy” cannot apply to any being that lives in isolation. They apply
only where there is a robust mutual relationship. Imagine a professional singer who
finds herself exiled to an uninhabited island. She may sing at the top of her voice,
but with no one to listen, will it bring her happiness? In the same way, even the
self-existent God absolutely needs a partner to share love with in order to
experience joy and be happy.
True Family
