7. Children are the Companion of Their Parents for Life

Love is the most important thing to a person, but what is love worth if it changes? It should not change. It must be everlasting, absolute, and unchanging.

When you look at it from this viewpoint, how can mothers and fathers not help loving their children? They cannot help loving. They must go forward to a position where they can recognize their children as their own point of life. Why is that? See for yourselves. You must understand that our sons and daughters are the companions of love. Do you understand what this means? Where do sons and daughters come from? They come from their parents' love. That is why sons and daughters start to accompany us at the point where, in this world of existence, their parents unite in love. Do you understand this? When you consider where your starting point is, where you came from, you were born at the very place where your parents' love blossoms to the greatest degree. You were born at a place where the flowers bloom with ideal beauty, not only with beauty but with a fragrance which God, your parents and the whole universe loves.

So who were sown as oat seeds? At the very place of father's and mother's joy, who were born as men and women as the microcosm of the universe? The children. Even though you are an old man or woman, you are the power of life sown in the fragrance of the blossom of your parents' love. Isn't that great? (It's great) So we find a theory that says such a place where among such blossoms of life the fruit of love is sown must be a place which the whole universe solemnly watches.

The explanation of this is that if God's love exists, life starts from a place where you can accompany God's love. Also, if there is parents' love or love between husband and wife, life holds a supreme right to accompany that love. That is why man was designed to begin centered upon this love of constancy and unity, having this kind common content and affinity. So can you cut off such a relationship between parents and children? You cannot. How can you? Because they are the owner of your life and love, cutting this relationship off means denying yourself and your love; so you can never deny this first love. So parents can even give their own life up for their children. We found this theory. Is it understood? (Yes) (83-162)

You have children. What are they? We people are the children of God. Sons and daughters are born from their parents' love. That is love, isn't it? So, you attended the very place of your parents' love. That is why it has value. The value is right there. You are an attendant of love. Do you understand? Your life is an accompaniment of your parents' love.

Can you cut that kind of connection with your own power? (No, you can't) That is why you must know sons and daughters are proud beings who cherish life within their parents' love. (105-75)

To give an explanation of the child: he is the one who has the right to attend the love which holds the universe together, like an adhesive. "I know now what all of mom's and dad's love was." Since you are at the root of father's and mother's love, you have the right to pull your parents along where ever you go. Isn't it so? That is what sons and daughters are like. Do you act like this? That is why if there is anything wrong with the daughter, mothers and fathers would say, "Where is she?" and if the son is missing the parents will look for him. Why? Since there is this adhesive agent of heavenly principle, it can never be cut off. It only stretches. Nobody can cut it off. (83-216)