April 10, 2007

  • 18 wheeler inferno 2

    I took this shot March 21.  I was so close to it I could feel the heat from the flames.  This shot made the front page of the Baytown Sun.  Luckily, the guy who was driving it got out alive.

    The next section of Father's speech deals with the relationship between our spirit body and our physical body.  I guess the picture above is a good depiction of where one could wind up if one did not have such great unity between their spirit body and their physical body -- not just in terms of a flaming accident, but more allegorically, in terms of winding up in a flaming inferno of hell! 

    Actually, that sort of fire and brimstone message is not at all a part of the speech below.  It's more practical in content, telling how to grow spiritually.

    I think the guidance below is valid.  It's easy to feel lost and directionless, and it's easy to pursue a lifestyle, quite unwittingly, that will make your success in a marriage very difficult, and that will definitely not make you a very good parent.  Every kid deserves a good parent.  It behooves all of us to become one, so that we don't inflict any disservice on our kids.  Raising yourself right is all part of being able to raise someone else right.

    So what's written below, if taken to heart and lived in your practical daily life, can definitely make you a better person, one that someone could definitely fall in love with and want to be with forever.

    The
    Relationship between the Spiritual and Physical Bodies

    However,
    in the relationship between the spirit and the physical body of a
    human being, the spirit is the more important of the two. The
    physical body lasts for about a hundred years before it stops
    functioning, but the spirit lasts eternally, transcending time and
    space. Isn’t even a person who dresses and fares well in the
    physical world bound to die? Therefore, before you pass on to the
    next world, you should achieve unity between your physical and
    spiritual bodies by living your earthly life in such a way that you
    meet the standards of both the physical and spiritual worlds.

    In other
    words, you have the responsibility to perfect your spirit within your
    physical bodies based on the finite life you live in the tangible,
    physical world. This does not mean, however, that the perfection of a
    spirit self happens automatically. Only on the basis of your having
    achieved complete unity between your mind and body during your
    earthly life, by expressing true love through actions, can your
    spirit self fully mature.

    Ladies
    and gentlemen, in order for fruit to ripen and be put into storage in
    autumn, it must first pass through the growing process of spring and
    summer and be provided with the nutrients supplied by nature and the
    tender loving care of its owner. Fruit grown in an orchard by a lazy
    and ignorant owner will be afflicted with all kinds of diseases and
    be affected by foul weather. Eventually it will fall from the tree
    before it is ripe, or be classified as worm-infested. Though it will
    still be fruit, it will be different from other fruit since it will
    never be good enough to sell in the market.

    Fruit
    that has fully matured on the tree will automatically go into the
    owner’s storehouse. Similarly, only when the spirit of a person has
    reached perfection during his life in the physical world, which can
    be likened to the tree, can it automatically enter the incorporeal
    spirit world of the kingdom of heaven. In other words, a person will
    enter the kingdom of God in heaven automatically only when he has
    qualified for and enjoyed the kingdom of heaven on earth by living as
    a fully mature person while in his physical body.

    While
    living on earth, your every action and movement is recorded on your
    spirit self without exception, with the public laws of Heaven as the
    standard. Accordingly, you will enter the spirit world in the form of
    your spirit self, which has recorded your life on earth with 100
    percent accuracy. Your spirit will show plainly whether you have led
    a ripe life of goodness, or a wormy, rotten life of sinfulness. What
    this means is that it is not God who will judge you; you will be your
    own judge. If you are aware of this astonishing rule from Heaven,
    will the remaining days of your life on earth be spent in selfishness
    and immorality, succumbing to all the temptations of Satan and in
    pursuit of nothing but pleasure? No, rather you will abstain from
    injuring and scarring your spirit bodies, even at the risk of your
    earthly life. Please bear this truth in mind: Whether you are bound
    for heaven or for hell is determined by your thoughts, speech and
    behavior in each moment.

    Nevertheless,
    when you look into your lives, undeniably, your outer self and inner
    self are in a constant relationship of conflict and struggle. How
    much longer will you allow this fighting to continue? Ten years? A
    hundred years? In contrast, there is undeniably a proper order for
    all forms of existence in the universe. This indicates that God did
    not create human beings in this state of conflict and disorder. You
    need to know that it is your duty and responsibility as a human being
    to dispel all temptations directed at your outer self, your physical
    body, perfect absolute sexual morality and be victorious in life by
    following the way of your inner self—your conscience. Heavenly
    fortune will be with those who lead their lives in such a way. They
    will attain the perfection of their spiritual selves.

    excerpt from

    “God’s Model for
    Absoluteness, Peace and the Ideal Is the Family
    and Global
    Kingdom Upholding Absolute Sexual Morality”

    Rev.
    Dr. Sun Myung Moon