Why was I born? Why was I born as a man or a woman? Were you born to eat? [No] If so, how sad it is. Were you born to study in the school? What a headache that would be. However, when you say, "I was born to love," you will surely move everybody. Repeatedly, the question is what made you be born. Love is the motive for your birth. You were born by the motive of love as a resultant being of love. Is that right? Thus, man is to be born and to be loved by his mother and father. Then, why do your mother and father love you? Why do even birds or animals love their young? It is because they all were born as testifiers to love. In other words, all of them originated from love. To deny one's cause and effect is the same as denying all things in Heaven and on earth. Man is not allowed to do so. Namely, man is destined to follow the way of love so that man can't help loving his sons and daughters. Do you understand what I am saying? [Yes] That is love for the sake of love itself. That's why a mother and father live while loving each other... It is a good thing that your mother and father live being in ecstasy of love. It will be very happy for children that they live filled with their parents' love. But, what about American children? Actually, many of them insist that they d o not need their parents. Then, what does that mean? To put it in another way, it means they have lost their family which is the foundation and nest of love. (104-19) Why do you consider your son and daughter to be important? Do you know why you want to love them even at the cost of your life? It is because your son and daughter are the beings who appear in your family on behalf of Heaven and earth. For this reason, where is the place that God wishes to go and wants to live in? It is the family. Thus, God has been eager to live in the family together with His sons and daughters. (8-107)
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