My children are the same. They can't go out as they please. They have to receive my permission first. Why? There are all sorts of terrible things taking place in the world today. You are not living in the kind of environment where you can say yes to everything and let the children do what they want, are you? You have not yet reached the environment in which you can say, centered on True Love from the position of True Parents, "My son or my wife."

Even if your children eat and sleep and go in and out as they want, and even if the mother does the same, you have the position of being a watchman to keep your family safe. You have to continue living that kind of life as long as you are conscious. That is the life I am living. Does God rest? As yet, God has not been able to bequeath His throne to me and say before the whole universe, "This is my son." You never know what is going to happen. You must always be careful. Things could change now, couldn't they? (181-267)