When we are speaking of the most valuable, promising, and best-natured child in your family, that child must be the person who can get the answers "yes," which means the agreement of all the family members from his grandparents to even relatives. He is the man who wants to live for the sake of the others. Then, who is a good-natured man? A good-natured man does not wish that all obeyed him. Who is a true man? A true man is a very good-natured man. Then, what is the foundation from which you can get approval? That's the question. Otherwise, you cannot get unanimous approval. Then, how can you be such a good person among the family members? For you to make it, you should have a higher level of standard. But your sister may not agree with you, saying, "You are a grumbler, you are a greedy guy." In order for you to be accepted as the best person, you should throw away your own insistence and then be able to draw the approval of the whole family. So we can be proud of that.įrom this point of view, you may insist that you should be the best man in your family, being supported by your parents. We call something good when it gains public approval for representing the whole, the perfect foundation. What does that mean? It means that something representing the whole should be a thing that gains public approval. You may have beautiful eyes, a good-looking nose and mouth, but what if one finger is somewhat abnormal? You might want to hide it. It is more valuable to decide whether something is good or bad from the public position on behalf of others. (139-12)įrom what can we draw a definition of a good man? The question is who will be good man and who has a right for decision-making in your family. When a family is in perfect harmony, all things can be accomplished. All harmony takes place in three stages of a perfect harmony. All things are to be connected with each other through the relationship of three stages. Also there shouldn't be too much gap between the two. There are parents who may be called "middle grandparents" between grandparents. Their laughter brings harmony into the family. The puckered-up laughter of grandparents is more wonderful and valuable. There is no comparison between the laughter of grandparents and that of a young couple. A grandfather and grandmother will be happier when they live in better surroundings. A family includes a house, a garden, grandfather, grandmother, and so on. You may think that a family is the place where your mother and father, your wife and children are. It means that there exists everything in a family. Man must be the center in a family, which has a grandfather, grandmother, parents and children. There is an old saying in our Oriental culture, which is "When a family is in perfect harmony, it brings success in everything." Those are really good words. When a Family is in Perfect Harmony, All Things Can Be Accomplished For this reason, if one has some extent of resemblance, the other may feel that degree of intimacy in proportion to the extent of that resemblance.ģ. If someone says, "That guy takes after you," then no one will dislike it. Due to their same identities, they can become one eternally.īecause there can exist different ratios in the state of resemblance, one knows who has a much closer resemblance to him. One's resemblance shows that he has the same characteristics and elements. For a smart son, the father says, "This guy just takes after me," then the mother complains, saying, "No, he resembles me very closely." Parents often talk to each other about who has more resemblance to them among their children. Of course, parents do love all of the children, but they may prefer the one who more closely resembles him or her. It is natural that there should be children who more closely resemble the mother or father. Parents like the child who more closely resembles them. Something should be so valuable to you, when its contents resemble you, even if it has no value. Parents Prefer the Child Who More Closely Resembles Them You like Korea, you want to live in Korea, you are living in Korea, but what do you miss? That's your hometown. They miss their hometown more than they miss their nation. All people, without exception, miss their hometown, the original land. Why is it? Because there are the father and mother, brother and sister, and relatives. And a family is the place where their brothers and sisters are. Why is a family good? Because there is a foundation of freedom where everybody can give and take his or her love. When a Family is in Perfect Harmony, All Things Can Be Accomplished - Raising Children in God's Will - Sun Myung Moon
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