Raising Children In God's Will (024) Chapter 1. True Family Section 3. The Family as the Training Center to Learn and Develop Heart (ShimJung)
1) The Family is the Textbook to Make Up the Kingdom of Heaven - 1
What is it that we have been shedding blood, sweat and tears with a parental heart and servile body? That's for the sake of the world.
It would be a lie to say that we live for the sake of the world without living for the sake of our sons and daughters. When one lives for the world's sake, he can become a representative.
Therefore, I am the one who has done so. And I am the one who decides the criterion and the base for realizing the Heavenly Kingdom.
Then, what is the criterion? That's the family. Also, what is the base to establish a nation? It is the family too.
There you should be such a love-centered person who doesn't want any rewards, even if you might have sacrificed your children and experienced every severe trial.
You should have a the thought that you feel sorry for not giving more and more. When you make up your mind like that, then your children would thank you for what you have done for them and voluntarily take over the responsibility on behalf of the parents.
You have to make and offer such an environment. Without doing so, you can't go beyond the state of regret in the Garden of Eden where the people had fallen. (29-101)
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