Why do you love? (For your children) I want to ask you one question. There would be God, Adam, Eve and their child; but why was God so eager for the child rather than Adam and Eve? When you hear this kind of story, there are people who think, "Oh, that sounds strange. Your partner must be the best. Why does Rev. Moon speak of children?" Nobody asks this kind of question.

Now, if you look at this pattern: parents and children are vertical, and husband and wife are horizontal. But I said children are more important, and why is that? (writing on the board) Now it is understood. Husband and wife meet through love; but for what purpose do they meet? (For the child) Here, when men and women come close, from here sons and daughters of hope come out, and at this time God's wish is granted. That is why God's purpose is children, Adam and Eve's purpose is children. Everything is for this purpose. (118-229)

So, let's take your mother and father, for example, and talk about it once again. In order to be born through your mother and father, first love between your mother and father must blossom.

The reciprocal relationship towards each other must be set up. Then in that environment of love, the harmonizing point of life, new life should be established. The husband and wife should not dislike each other, and they must be ideal. So a couple's love is established, when they become one through love like this. The husband's love is my love, the husband's life is my life and the husband's ideal would be my ideal.

It is the same with the wife's love, life and ideals. So at this point, where all becomes one unified position, is the child. That is why the child is the fruit of the father's and mother's establishment and investment. They are the mother's and father's extension of life. Also, they are the embodiment of the ideal of their father and mother. Those of you who have loved and borne children would know. You would say to your dear son, "This is the substance of my love, an extension of my life, the embodiment of my ideal. It is the second me." From the start the children are born as love and life and an ideal foundation. The more the parents look at them, the more lovely they seem, the more they stir life, and appear to be an ideal object. (169-79)

So then why do we need God's love? God and I are in a parent-child relationship centered upon God. We must go forward to the position of God's son. We need the deep heart of parent-child. The parent-child relationship is the greatest secret position in the universe. The greatest secret position. The child is the first foundation where the love of parents can be substantiated. In other words, the child comes as a fruit of the beginning of the parents' ideal.

Thus children are the fruit of love, life and ideals, and the second object that can be connected directly to the parent. Other than the parent-child relationship, not a couple nor brothers, nor any kind of friendship is comparable. In the universe, only the parent-child relationship is central. If you look from this at this viewpoint, God and I, the parent-child relationship is the vertical center, the core content made visible. This is really amazing. If, in any case, this was to be actualized, there would be no problems in the universe. Absolutely no problems. You ought to know this. (69-186)