5. A Minister's Daily Life

What must you restore? The entire human race must be restored; even the spirits in hell must be restored. After that what needs to be restored? God's heart of sadness must be restored to the heart of happiness.

You must set the standard by proving that:

1. You are God's son or daughter through your lineage

2. You are God's son or daughter through the truth.

3. You are God's son or daughter through your lifestyle and,

4. You are God's son or daughter through your work.

History, this era, and the future guarantee success. Until now, history has not seen a person who could bring this distinguished mission to a successful conclusion. I hope that you will go out and fight with conviction.

A mission must firstly be historical. Next, it must be immediate. Finally it must be for the sake of the future. We take on this kind of mission with three periods. As you know, I said that today is harvest day. Today, our fallen ancestors on this earth have had many harvest days. If they sowed seeds in the spring, they grew until the fall. The resultant fruit was then harvested as their own. Then, with that harvested fruit, they planted again.

Today, people have sown and then harvested with joy, but God has not yet felt the joy of harvesting the fruit of new seeds which he had sown. Heavenly Father has never been able to see the wished-for day of harvesting a thousand or thirty-or-sixty-or-a-hundred times the amount of what was planted.

When you consider this, though today it is late autumn, as people who gather grain and face the fruit of our harvest we mustn't stand in the position of harvesters from the past when we do our own. Because God desires that we, with our own loving hands, gather in and distribute each seed and grain in the middle of His garden of love's heart, you must become the people who can be expected to stand in the position through which God can put this desire into practice. This must happen in order for you to become a person who knows how to gather the fruit and then knows how to distribute the seeds.

In a perfect world great love can be attained. When the Unification Church becomes famous, and when it becomes the age of the Unification Church, then you all will bloom. If the flower blooms, the color of the flowers will change. When a scent is sent out, colors must change. Right? [Yes.] When a flower enters maturity and it blooms, its color changes. So, flowers must grow and their scent must come out. You must all give forth a fragrance.

The essence of the Unification Church must be the pollen which can bring love's hidden flowers to bloom and give off fragrance. Love's fragrance does the work of cleansing the world. How about that? Let's clean up this world, the college roads, the countryside, the city, and the academic world.

When you wait for a loved one who has gone far away, from whom does news arrive? [The mailman.] It comes as a letter doesn't it? That letter comes by the way of the mailman. Isn't that so? [Yes.] When you receive the letter do you feel good or bad? [Good.]

There are people who wait for a letter until their eyes fall out, and then when the mailman arrives, happily take it and run inside the house. But no one invites the mailman in to have lunch. The mailman is a pitiable person. So many people receive tender-hearted news through him, but does anyone receive their salary and then offer him a tip? If there are any mothers here who have welcomed a mailman in courteously, please raise your hand. This shows that mailmen are the most pitiable persons.

The Unification Church members have been trying to take on the mission of the mailman, but is there anyone here who has gone to every house with good news?

Is there a mailman who delivers a letter saying, "Today is one of the hottest days of the year. I'm sweating so much," and then asks from the door for a cold glass of water? The mailman is always met with contempt. Isn't that so? We must become the mail men of love. Let's become the mail men who can deliver God's love to the world. How splendid that is!

Until now, Father has said, "establish a tradition," several times. You must have heard me say this many times. We must establish a tradition now. We will fail if we do not establish a tradition. The tradition must be connected to the nation's ideology of patriotism and then established. Do you understand?

The fact that you are meeting this era together with your wives is surprising. It is a more difficult thing than world unification. World unification begins here. Furthermore, you can become happier than the people from any other age. As much as you are in that position, there happiness and sadness cross each others paths. You must know that your mission is to be able to absorb this happiness and sadness as a subject.

In this time, you must show all the people the ways of Heaven's course, and without error you must pave a path like a highway for them. If you do this you will live for 1,000 or 10,000 years in their memory. Do you understand? [Yes.] During happy times, people will look upon the tombstone at your grave, and if there is a mountain you frequented, they will frequent it, saying, "Please receive this happiness." You must become this kind of ancestor. That is a worthwhile life. Do you understand? [Yes.]

If, during your life, you live out on the roadways, taking medicine, laughing and dancing, what will happen to your grave? A person like that will have only grass growing on his grave; but, a person who sheds blood and dies for his country will have the flowers of his nation growing there.