You should shed tears when you see a poor person in the village and as you pass in front of the house after having a meal. This should be your attitude. As you pass the house, you should call out to God and pray in tears with your head cast down, "The reason that he is so poor is because the ancestors of humankind made the mistake and fell. Since I came with the parental mission to this village, I must be responsible for them, yet how much was I able to give them during over one year that I have spent in this village. I have not benefited you in any way." Everyone, have you ever had such heart? This is the Principle's way.

Moreover, when you see the children in the village underfed and poorly clothed, your heart should be in agony. You should be engulfed by the thought and attitude day and night, "Who is responsible for causing you to suffer like this? It is because of me. In order for this village to go before Heaven, the bridge to Cain cannot be laid down unless the foundation is built around me who came as a parent. Without this foundation, without making the connection to the parents, they cannot go to the Kingdom of Heaven. Since, the village and I have some common bond, I should fulfill all of my responsibilities as a parent, regardless of whether I live or die." This is the attitude of heart that the leaders in the regions who stand in the position of parents should have.

When you pick up your spoons to eat, as parents you should be able to eat only after being told by the starving people in the village that you should not worry about them, and eat your meals because you always visit them and share all your food with them. This is how a parent is. Can parents with children eat alone? As parents divide the food among their children, telling them to eat, a mature child among them will say, "Father, mother, we are all right now, so please have some as well." As parents, this is the time that they can begin to eat. When you eat from this position, then you are able to eat with a hopeful and loving heart. That meal is not a sad meal but a happy meal, and is not a meal of hopelessness but of hope. The place that the parents and children eat that meal is not where they will meet a dead end, but a position in which bonds of moral laws and bonds of heaven and earth will be newly established. Therefore, that meal is a blessed meal, and that foundation is the basis of happiness. Shouldn't the parental heart wish that they will not fall away from such a state?

As you see the gaunt children playing on the street, underfed and poorly clothed, you should embrace them like your children. If you cannot do that, you should feel more shameful than a mother who is not being responsible for the child that she has given birth to, or who has passed the responsibility over to a nanny or perhaps is passing by the house that is taking care of her children on her behalf. This is the bond of heart. If your own children are that gaunt, then won't you grab on to them and shed tears until your bones melt and flesh become twisted?

In the course of the history of restoration, how precious and blessed is the bond of lineage that remains even after thousands of years of wandering without recognizing any parents, and does not perish even after being dragged around by the enemy but remains as seed? We should be grateful for the grace of God, who allowed us to stand in this position so that our nation would not perish and descendants will live on. When you can nurture the parental heart centering on that mind-set, then you will never go hungry. You will not go hungry unless the whole village experiences starvation. If you were to be just allowed to starve even after standing in such position, then the whole village would be doomed.

This is the heart that you should possess. It is the same whether you look at a person or look at a cow. You should have the heart to even grab on to the ears of a cow and placing your forehead against its, cry in tears and say to the cow, "How wonderful would it be if you were tilling the land while being hit with the whip of True Parents? I have pity on you who are in the position of a miserable orphan and slave who cannot escape that fate."

It should be the same as you look at the fields and trees. You should tell them, "If you have historical resentment, you should resolve it while looking at me today. If you have some desire that you want to achieve, then you should tell me. I will connect you with the dispensation of God." Even as you look at the plain or the mountains and rivers, "How can I abandon you? I will go and visit every valley." You should go seeking for trees deep in the mountains who were never visited by their owners until now, "The reason that I came into the mountains looking for you is because I felt that the trees like you in this mountain are feeling lonely. So, I came to you considering you as their representative." Then, you should pray on behalf of the trees in the mountains of the village, or district, or county. You should pray that they can maintain the happiness felt today and by resolving all the sorrows by today, free those coming after them from such agony.

As you look at a rock, before the rock expresses sorrow, you should manifest sad expressions in your face which is full of tears, and say, "What kind of wishes did you hear from numerous people? Many people resented you and cursed at you, having all sorts of thought while looking at you, but I am not like that. How long have you been waiting for the day that you can meet me and express your joy?" If you can come to possess this type of heart, then your path will never be met with doom.

Your good ancestors will come and intervene when you are about to face difficulties. Because the good ancestors stand in the position of servant of servant, when you, the servants, go, then they will go before you to prepare the way. Accordingly, there will emerge phenomena in which the spirit world is mobilized and helps their descendants. Do you think this will take place or not?

This is the same when we view it centering on God. If God, who is loving the archangel and Adam with the parental heart is receiving injury, wouldn't the whole spirit world mobilize themselves to help God? It's the same logic. If you possess the heart of a parent then such things will take place. Do you understand?

Everything is your responsibility. You should toil with the attitude, "I will be hit before you are hit, I will suffer before you do, and I will endure tribulations before you do. The failure to clean up this village is also my responsibility, and the failure to build the starting point of Heaven in every place in the village is also my responsibility." Having done that, you should come back at night and pray for their blessing. You are not to lament for your own life but for the sake of the village and the descendants in it. Isn't such a person with the parental heart someone that the village would want to welcome as their ancestor? Won't this be true? [Yes] (46-280)