Hak Ja Han
July 4, 2013
Kona, Hawaii
Report from Ki Hoon Kim
Translated by Lymhwa Kim
Edited by Krista Karjalainen, Doug Burton and Dr. Tyler Hendricks
Ki Hoon Kim has been with True Mother, Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, in Queen Garden, Kona, Hawai’i. He sent the following report written on July 8, 2013, the 21st day of the Divine Principle workshop for her grandchildren.
True Mother shares breakfast with her grandchildren and Yeon Ah Choi, her daughter-in-law (far right).
On American Independence Day, July 4, 2013, True Mother educated her grandchildren about the American providence. That evening, she took everyone to watch the Independence Day fireworks from a boat anchored off the Kona Beach.
Every day, True Mother gives guidance based on her concern for the future of the second generation and the future of the Unification Church. On July 5th, True Mother invited secondgeneration leaders to breakfast and educated them about God’s providence and the secondgeneration’s responsibilities. She gave suggestions for re-organizing and rebuilding the Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles (CARP) and selecting its new national director. She emphasized that a revival of young people will save the United States. True Mother encouraged everyone in attendance to utilize CARP and the Youth Federation for World Peace, a youth organization active in Korea, as vehicles for second-generation social leadership. During the breakfast meeting, True Mother shared the following message.
“Our life goal is to meet True Parents and fulfill the ideal of the Blessing. The last time I invited peace ambassadors and leaders of the Women’s Federation to Cheon Jeong Gung, I told them that the Divine Principle and True Parents are the only source of hope in our lives. When I explained that Heavenly Parent are very lonely and pitiful, the participants, especially the first time participants, were affected deeply.
True Mother spends time with one of her youngest grandchildren.
“In the Divine Principle it says that our wish is to meet the Messiah, the True Parents. We walked by that faith, but did the first- or second generation, in everyday life, fully appreciate True Parents? Wherever our life journey leads, we should rise above the realm of complaint and discontent. I am very committed to impart to the current second generation the first-generation’s appreciation of all the things that serve as the basis of faith.
True Mother boarded a boat to watch the Fourth of July fireworks on the water.
“As we read in the Bible and the Divine Principle, valuing everything in the presence of God is meant to be our natural way of faith. Without this kind of knowledge, our faith tends to turn in a self-centered direction. God educated the Israelites through hardships for 4,000 years and built the foundation whereby He could send the Messiah. However, when the Israelites met the Messiah, they did not recognize him and didn’t fulfill their responsibility.
“Indemnity is fearful and painful. We need to fulfill our responsibility in order to protect our descendants and fulfill God’s promise of liberation and complete release. We need to feel the sad history of Heavenly Parent though our skin. Many prophets came to earth, but only True Parents discovered God’s sorrowful heart. Because we know this history, we have the grace to understand the meaning of liberating God.
“Foundation Day marked the start of Cheon Il Guk. Because Korea is Heavenly Parent’s homeland, all nations and people should come to Korea in harmony to actualize what God has prepared.
“What is the current state of the United States? Is the United States in the position to help others, or does it need to get help? How can we lead the Providence to victory? What is second-generation’s position on this?
“True Father is not just the Messiah but represents the victorious True Parents. All people and organizations need to witness to True Parents. This is the way to complete the ideal of the True Family and the Blessing. We need to witness about the True Parents while we have life in us.
True Mother held her grandson’s hands while watching the sunset before the fireworks began.
“True Mother opened a new chapter of history through the Cheon Seong Gyeong, Pyeong Hwa Gyeong and Cham Bu Mo Gyeong. Don’t act as if we are an indirect organization. It is best to witness with conviction. Even though the people you live with don’t know the truth, when you witness and share with them, your efforts will bring tremendous results. The parents’ lack of ability to create a proper environment for their children led to the disparity between the first- and second generation’s standard of faith. It is the parents’ responsibility. We all are incomplete; including the True Children, but True Mother will set it right. God’s providence has focused on attending to Cain’s needs before Abel’s needs. Therefore, True Father assigned elder church members to guide his children. This allowed him to spend his time with the first generation in order to move God’s providence forward. Seen from this perspective, the way the True Children grew up was more pitiful than the way you did. The second generation could grow up with their parents, but True Children were always left behind. We didn’t make a proper and nourishing environment. Blessed families need to protect the True Children and educate them. True Parents didn’t have a chance to love their own children the way they loved Cain.
“I have asked my children to wait in a supportive position for the next three years. I will set the tradition of God and True Parents with the Divine Principle. I will focus my love on the second generation more than on my own children, just as God and True Father did. I will educate my Abel children through my Cain children.
“Ironically, we said we knew Principle but actually we didn’t know the Divine Principle. How do we understand the history of indemnity? God’s providence of restoration was to build the first Israel, which is Judaism, and then build a second Israel, which is Christianity. Let us think deeply about the foundation we would have now if the Israelites who met Jesus had made a proper foundation and served him. God did not utilize a second time the people who had failed to fulfill their responsibilities. To bring about Foundation Day, God prepared for a long time.
True Mother, together with some of her young grandchildren, watch the Fourth of July fireworks.
“We need to help the second generation and win a victory for everyone. We need to support them in every way. The first- and second Israel’s should support the third Israel, which is Korea, to bring about a definitive restoration. The goal of Vision 2020 is to recover the kingship of True Parents in Korea. The providential first- and second generations can march forward to recover Heavenly Parents’ homeland. Korea, the United States and Japan, as providential nations, should determine to put everything into practice; it is a matter of life or death. We need to show something in three years. Then we will have hope.
“I asked the True Children to follow me for three years with a positive heart. Kwon Jin is working as a leader of education on my behalf in order to harvest the fruit of the last place True Father built a foundation, centered on Las Vegas. Kwon Jin started from the bottom and is witnessing to the Divine Principle Word so that he can stand proudly as a son of True Parents. True Parents began a providence in Las Vegas, making it the main center of education, because we weren’t able to tour all 190 nations. We set up Las Vegas, where it is possible to gather the peoples of all nations. Up until now, the True Children didn’t start from the bottom.
“Realizing this point, you need to move forward realizing the centrality of your responsibility. We don’t have to worry about a gap between first generation and second generation. That concern will disappear when an appointed leader makes the right environment. We can see how the central people of the Providence made their environment on the foundation of Moses and Abraham. We are the problem. Leaders are the problem. The United States is like a desert. Leaders need to find locusts and wild honey to feed their people.
“In the early stage of America’s providence, True Parents launched activities at colleges. We need to revive this college movement. If we are going to save seven billion people, don’t you think we need to call talented youth through campus activism and give them an invitation to participate? Aren’t there a lot of idealistic and talented young men and women from around the world studying in the United States? Why not enter this environment? One important mission is to revive our campus movement. A secondgeneration leader should touch the hearts and minds of our disengaged second-generation families and renew their relationship with True Parents. Part of our responsibility is to love and inform them, centered on True Parents. Let’s all do this together. Please guide them with true love.
“When we go to spirit world, we should breathe under the same sky. When people serve True Parents during their physical life, they can live as one big family eternally. Our blood lineage is not the wild seed from a hillside. It is the providential seed that brings forth children of true love. Our mission is to gather them and move forward together. Let’s make conditions for restoration, such as tithing and volunteering in church ministry. Those who are born with the Blessing of True Parents, let’s go together and not give up.
“Education that is centered on true love is important. Once a year, there will be a two- to three week workshop with my children and my grandchildren in Kona, Hawai’i, which is the center of the Pacific-rim providence. In addition I will include elementary, middle- and high-school students from Korea, Japan, the United States and around the world, who aspire to be church leaders. We will select 10 young people from Korea, Japan and the United States, and another 10 from around the world to attend this annual workshop.
True Mother celebrated Independence Day and viewed the fireworks from a boat anchored off the Kona Beach.
“Let’s become proud of the people of Cheon Il Guk. We need to care for our members with a parental heart. The United States, centered on the 40-year providence, should inherit True Parents and become the center of the providence.”
True Mother finished the breakfast meeting in a question- and answer session with the participating second generation. One individual asked how one should learn Korean and True Mother suggested singing Korean songs repetitively.
True Mother walked around Queen Garden with her grandchildren and the American leaders early in the morning on July 6, 2013. True Mother keenly looked at the plants in the garden and gave precious lessons about life. True Mother explained the biblical story of Joshua and Caleb to her grandchildren. They learned that representatives of 10 of the 12 tribes were labeled as faithless because of their reports, whereas only the two tribes, led by Joshua and Caleb, had positive reports, and this allowed the providence to move forward. Then when the providence centered on Joshua, Caleb supported him fully and this helped fulfill God’s providence. Their relationship demonstrates beautiful fraternal love.
True Mother urged the second generation to appreciate God and truly love the Divine Principle.