Raising Children In God's Will (033) Chapter 1. True Family Section 3. The Family as the Training Center to Learn and Develop Heart (ShimJung)
5) The Family as the Training Center for Love - 2
Everybody! Have you ever known the origin of love? [Yes] So you have to love your family. The family is the textbook which shows how to get the ticket to the Kingdom of Heaven. The family is the training center for love.
The world is an amplified family where there are a world of grandfather, a world of grandmother, a world of parents, a world of husbands and wives, and a world of sons and daughters. So it is the straight and proper way to the Kingdom of Heaven for you to love other people as you love your family and God.
So the first commandment says, "Love God, the Lord, with your all heart and mind." The second one says, "Love your neighbor as you love yourself" Love God, love people, that's all. Training will be in vain. It is just nothing, if you can't do so. Religion teaches how to train yourself. Without loving people, the Universe and God, it can be nothing.
Frankly speaking, the family is the place where you experience love and practice it in the world and where you and your parents have grown up and lived. It's like a microcosm. And the Unification Church has built a new type of family as a new training camp, centered on True Parents.
So you have to love your parents much more than you love your wife. It doesn't mean that you have to abandon your wife. If you love people like that, your love-receiving people will come to love your wife. There is no more glorious thing than that. (142-242)
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