Raising Children In God's Will (071) Chapter 2. Children's Love and Parents' Love Section 2. The Reason We Need Children
2) In Order to Experience Vertical Love - 2
When you say you live for your spouse, you are not living for the sake of your spouse. You live centered upon God's original, idealistic true love, in the essence of it. You live centering on that kind of love.
You are living for and representing God. Isn't that wonderful! You want to live with God but He is invisible so you live with your wife instead of God, and vice versa.
Talking about husband and wife is not enough. Love between a man and a woman is inadequate, this is only horizontal love. You need the love of a mother and a father, parents' love.
You must become a parent. You can never know vertical love unless you become a parent. After experiencing horizontal love, why do we need sons and daughters? In order to experience vertical love.
People without children does not understand vertical love. These kind of people become failures in the human world. That is why we think couples without children are unhappy. Do you get it? (Yes.)
Why are they unhappy? At the position of parents, when you go up to a higher level there must be love you can give and take, below your level. By doing so, above and below can be connected.
So as the way you love your husbands and wives, the more you love there are no complaints in the work of living for the sake of others.
So in the world of living for the sake of others, even if the husband loves his children more than he loves his wife, the wife cannot complain saying, "Oh, that man only loves his sons and daughters and doesn't care for me day and night.
Why does he act like that?" She does not complain. She is happy with it, and says, "Oh, I'm glad. he loves them more than me. That's the way it should be. (173-279)
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