Raising Children In God's Will (025) 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 - 2
There is the love of your grandfather, grandmother, father, mother, and brothers and sisters in your heart. Our Divine Principle calls it the love of the three-objects. Right? Husband and wife stand for the present. So they should have the mind to live for the past and the future. It means that you have to establish a vertical foundation.
Do you like your mother-in-law? [Yes] You need sons and daughters? [Yes] Well, you said, "Yes." Then here are grandparents, husband and wife, and children. By the way, which one is more important, a vertical relationship or a horizontal one? [The vertical one]
Why? It's because that is the root and base of the Universe. Love comes from Heaven, the upper place. It doesn't originate from the horizontal base. Therefore, the vertical one should come first, from which the horizontal one would originate. This is a plus and that is a minus.
After the horizontal husband and wife become one being, then whom should they love more strongly? [Parents-in-law] This two loving-beings should return to this place (speaking while pointing to his writing on the board). They have to make one circle, moving around. How can they do so?
The husband should love his parents as he loves his wife. And he should more strongly love his children. These three types of love should be located like this: first, the grandparents and then the father and mother and finally the children. Here are the vertical love and the horizontal love together.
Thinking from this point of view, we find that when an American couple becomes divorced, they are able to desert each other but not the baby. Why is it so? Because the baby has everything, the love of man, the love of woman, the love of God. So, there may be no need for a man or woman, but the need for a baby. Why? It has God's love.
Understand that? So once a couple get divorced, there breaks out a fight to take the baby. Right? [Yes] Just as a husband loves a baby, so he has to love his wife and God. In the same manner, a wife should love her husband and God as she loves her baby. When such three types of love comes true, it will be really ideal.
Speaking of Western society, the husband and the wife in Western society are moving around, centering on this. But it doesn't have a center when moving. (speaking while pointing to his writing on the board) Where is the center? Without bringing the love center here, Western society and civilization will be under darkness. Otherwise, even the Universe would not tolerate it.
Seen from such a type of family organization, the family can be like a textbook. That is also a textbook to show how to realize an ideal nation. And such an ideal nation is a textbook to build an ideal world. Do you understand what that means? [Yes]
So there are four types of textbooks. These are the family textbook, the national textbook, the world textbook and the Universe textbook. Where should this training take place? Basically, it should be done in the family.
What should a family be like? Man must go beyond woman, woman must go beyond man, husband and wife must go beyond grandfather and grandmother.
That's the content of the family textbook which is for the nation. The nation comprises the group of grandparents, mother and father, the future daughters-in-law. So it is possible to say that one can build his own nation. (118-232)
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