My Wonder Plant

It is three years since we moved here. In the first year, I planted some wild flower seeds in my garden. Since then I've been enjoying to see the pink cosmos flowers every year.

However at the same time, I've been watching some cosmos flowers blooming wine red color in my neighbor garden. Whenever I was walking. " I wish I had the color one in my garden." I always thought watching then.

 It is amazing! I saw the red wine colored cosmos in my garden next pink one few days ago.






If some birds sent the seeds, why they did next pink one. They could do any place in my garden.


I wonder it.

And I can say " no one can deny the power of beyond human."

Someone say it is God.

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Education does not take place only through a teacher standing at a podium with books, but also through the teacher's words and deeds. The way a person dresses is an education; you can tell a good deal about a person's character by the way he or she dresses. Just as the body reflects the mind, a person's clothes reflect his or her character. In this light, our daily life offers constant opportunities to educate, stimulate and influence everyone around us. If we continually strengthen our effectiveness in educating people in our daily life, society surely will develop. That is where new hope for our world unfolds. ---Rev. Moon

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Happy anniversary !!!

It is tomorrow July 1st. It is our 35 years anniversary. Wow!
Since we are getting older and more mature,  I think we are getting more appreciate each other.
I guess so.

I used  to receive appreciating words from family. But now I am happy to make someone happy even without the word "Thank you". Of cause I would like to hear that, but I do not care so much.

Since we have been lubing each other, it seems like our personality is getting round.

Anyway Happy Anniversary!!!





These birds are called Albatross. They  fly to Alaska every winter to eat fish, and  come back same place to have babies. (Japanese Albatross)
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  We live for those we love. We would not exchange them for the whole world.
Love is absolute, unique, eternal and unchanging. The place where that love can settle is within each of us. There is no higher hope than finding and uniting with our own counterpart of love in that place of settlement. That is where God is; that is where the root of universe germinates. That is where the root of love is created.

What is the motivation for man and woman to relate? Even for those who do not know God, the motivation is love. We cannot deny this, even physiologically. No one can deny the fact that all created beings move in pairs, as subject and object partners, male and female. Why was this pair system created? Love made it that way. ~Rev Moon

My sister is coming!

My sister is coming next month from Japan.
This is something very significant for me.

I came to USA to attend the International Blessing Wedding Ceremony that was held on July 1st, 1982. Since then my husband and I have been together. Hallelujah!!

However my parents never visited here to meet my family.

I really feel that my sister is the representative of my parents and relative.

I have learned in the church that International marriage is the base of the ideal world, and it helps to overcome every wall of nation, race, and religions.
Since Home is the little piece of the world.

Of course there are a lot of challenge.
but my husband and I have been peace after all. Hallelujah!! 

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What is the principle of the Unification Church? It is that the individual has to sacrifice for the family, live for the sake of others, and lead a life of love.
The purpose of the family is to serve  the tribe and live for that which is greater.
the place where we live like that is the Kingdom of heaven on earth.--Rev Moon

I watched a documentary, that is.....

I watched a documentary TV program. A Japanese person visited a Japanese 75 years old man living in China. He cannot speak Japanese. and does not know his birthday and his birth parents.

After WW2,  still a lot of Japanese were in China and Soviet soldiers came down  there. They did crazy violence, rape, robbery for Japanese. Some group of Japanese in villages did collateral mass suicide. A lot of miserable stories were there which is not spoke out. Because it was too painful to make public.

A little boy(around 3 yeas old)was crying in a lot of Japanese dead bodies. A Chinese couple adopted him and sent him to school by selling their own house. He studied so hard and became a principal in a school. He took care his step parents until they passed away. He has a wonderful Chinese wife and children. He said he wants  to see his relative in Japan, but it is  not easy.

I hope that TV show help to find his relative in Japan.

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As a child, I would often observe bird nests. Once I climbed a tree to look inside a nest and the mother bird stated pecking at me. I brushed her aside. She flew away but returned repeatedly, desperate and willing to die to protect her nest. Observing this behavior, we cannot deny the powerful instinct of animals to risk their own lives to protect their young. The same can be said of people. You should be able to invest your life for the sake of love.This is the way of true person. Which people are truly good? They are those who establish love as their root and try to protect their loved ones even at the cost of their own lives. ~ Rev Moon~

Feeling love with wind

 I would  like  to share my unforgettable experience. It happened after the prayer meeting.
It was a windy and hot day in the middle of April.
I thought I had a good and deep prayer. I felt like cleansing my heart with tear and gratitude.





After the meeting, I was walking down the hill. Since it was so windy. I said to my friend　"It is better to say  [a sweet sakura dancing day]  than a terrible windy day. It is so romantic isn't it!
It is the same like a happy spring rain rather than rainy day."

And then I saw the shower of cherry blossoms which  was  totally like a tornado, it was a strong in a whirl,  was awesome. I have never seen it before.

 I guess I made God happy to enjoy His creation. And God wanted to show more incredible seen to me. I really felt so.

 I realize if we are peaceful and grateful enough, we can hear God words through nature and people around us all the time.

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We say in the orient that family harmony makes all go well, the Bible says,"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the  children God."(Matt5/9)
It means that those who bring peace will be son and daughters of God. If there were a messenger of peace in this world who was eliminating the causes of conflict, providing a base for unification, and leading a movement toward the one Lord, God would be compelled to pay attention to that person.

There is an old saying,"Family harmony makes all go well," but do you think family harmony is possible without harmony within the individual? If our own integrity is on the verge of collapse, can we foster harmony in our family? If individuals had carried conflict within themselves from the very outset, those who would deny God existence be right. But our inner conflict came about because something went wrong.Ideologies such as materialism developed, with the wrong diagnosis of reality.

 The problem lies within the self, not within society. If there is a problem in my family, it is not because my elder brother is bad, my elder sister is bad, or my father is bad; it is because I am bad. I must first attain a certain standard before I can be in a position to criticize the standard of others.
Only after attaining unity between my own original mind and my body can I proudly enter the one unified world. If my original mind and body are divided, how can I participaate in the world where everything is harmonized?
therefore, I should not allow my body to become my master. I can be happy only when I control my body and direct it to serve my mind; then God will come and dwell within me. It is said that "Family harmony makes all go wall." If I want peace in my family and within myself, I need to unite my mind and body. ---Rev Moon
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The pupose of marrying

 My parents had 4 children, 3 girls and 1 boy. I was a youngest one, and a girl.
I used to hear a lot from grandma since I was a little. The ward is "I wish you are a boy."
The word hurt my little heart very much, even I knew she loved me a lot.

That made me to  think about so many things.
Why are there man and woman in the world?
Why do my friends in the school have dad and mom like I do? , and so on.

I asked so many questions for my family members. And then I realized no one could answer.

When I was around 10, I asked again to Mom. "Why did you bear me?"
Of course there was no answer.

When I was a High school kids, my mind was full of questions.
Why am I living?
Why do I study?
Where am I going?
Does life mean just repeating a eating & sleeping?

When I was 21, Divine Principle answered to my all questions.

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The purpose of marrying







 We marry to resemble the form of God. God exists with dual characteristics of masculinity and femininity. He is a unified being in whom both characteristics exist together in harmony. Men and women were created to reflect the dual characteristic of God. Therefore, a man and a woman should come together in complete unity and harmony, become like the seed, and return to the state of the original nature of God.

 Men and women are each only half of a whole entity. Therefore women must conquer the wold of men and men must conquer the world  of woman. They come to resemble God by joining their separate manifestations of God's dual characteristics back together through love.
God and people are to unite based on the love between subject and object partners. The reason God has dual characteristics is also because of love.

A man should know that the woman standing in front of him is God's daughter and the feminine aspect of humanity. Before she is my wife, she belongs to humankind. Only if you can love her as a woman who is loved by humanity and love her as God's beloved daughters, are you qualified to be her husband.Woman are the same. Do not think,"He is my man." Think of him as God son and as a man representative all humankind. You have to love and serve him more than humanity does and more than God does.

In the unification church, we call marriage the "Blessing". The life of a married person is such that a man and woman who had been alone on their path to seek love abandon that path and stand as complement to each other - comforting each other when they feel lonely , sharing joy together when  they feel joy and giving each other strength during difficulties. In this way, one becomes the right foot and the other the left; one becomes the right hand and other the left. Together they praise God, saying they are moving forward with God's love superimposed on the theater of their lives.

Welcome to my meditation world.

 Spring has come here Chester NY finally. This warm spirits easily guide us to a meditation world.

 

       Welcome to my meditation world.

 I came to US from Japan when I was 26.　My mom was crying silently with tears, and talking to me  "I wish I could take care of my grand kids. You will find out parental heart when you become a parent."
In that time it is not popular for the international marriage in Japan.

 Since I am getting closer to her age, I can understand her parental heart.
 I remember she said this also "Parents have a lot of responsibility to take care of their children, but  grandparents will be able to  receive only fun part from their grand kids."
I am not sure about that since I do not have them yet.

  However I can guess that a lot of experience like challenging, repentance, and keep going with hope have been making my heart more understandable and grateful than before.

I can see that it is shinning up and giving me smile with  joy and comfort.

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The true freedom that gave us comes with the precondition of responsibility. How much chaos and destruction would occur if people were to insist on and practice the freedom of love only as individuals, without fulfilling their responsibility? The perfection of human beings, who are destined to realize the lofty ideal of love, is possible only when they take responsibility for love.

 That responsibility has three components. The first responsibility is to become the master of the freedom of true love, knowing how to cultivate and control oneself and truly grateful to God for granting the freedom to love. This responsibility for a love relationship should not be undertaken merely because of law or social convention. Instead, a person should take responsibility through self-control, self-determination and life in a vertical relationship with God.

 The second responsibility is toward one's object partner. By nature, people do not want to share the love of their partner with anyone else. The horizontal relationship between husband and wife is different from vertical relationship between parents ans children. When it is divided, its perfection is destroyed. This is because of the principle of creation, which is based on the absolute oneness of love between couples. People have the responsibility to absolutely love their partner.

 The third responsibility is to love one's children. Parental love is the foundation of a child's pride and happiness. Children receive life from their parents, who have created harmonious oneness through true love, and they want to be raised in such love. The most precious responsibility toward children is not only to raise them externally, but also to provide the life elements of true love that will complete their spirituality. This is the reason the family is important.   <Rev. Moon>

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 A healthy family is a core of  happiness and world peace.