Raising Children In God's Will (044) Chapter 1. True Family Section 6. My Family as the Model Family
1) The Family Code of Conduct in my Family - 1
The reason why I feel grateful to my mother and father is because it was one of our family practices never to let people who visit our house go away without feeding them first.
My mother never even gave a beggar a cold reception. My grandfather was like that, too. It was a family tradition. If a beggar came to our house asking for food, if my mother or sister-in-law didn't prepare food for them in the kitchen straight away then my grandfather of my father would take out their own dinner tray to give to them.
It sometimes meant they didn't eat. However, in their eyes it was all right to miss a meal if you were giving it to a beggar. This is why I am doing what I am for the world, today.
In order for people from the Honam area, or the Yongnam area or from all over Korea, to go to the north, they all followed the main road. So if they came to our village to find a place to stay for the night they were always told, "If you go down there you'll find the Moon family's house.
You will be able to stay there for the night." So the guest room was never empty all the year round. Sometimes three rooms were all full up.
I know well what a hard time my mother had all her life. But even though we fed everyone from all over Korea we weren't ruined. A descendant who could be welcomed by all of Korea was born.
That may be why someone like Rev. Moon was born. I am the same. I am feeding the people of the world. If when I about to eat there is someone who has not eaten, my spoon doesn't move from its spot. It's all stop.
That is why all those people who accused me have perished and the Unification Church, which has endured all sorts of persecution, has risen like the morning sun. (147-306)
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