“Consider a flower; it is one of the masterpieces of God’s creation. Hidden within a flower, even in a nameless wildflower blooming in a field, we can easily discover the Creator’s will and purpose. To see a flower alive and growing to perfection is truly to witness a miracle.

Flowers display beautiful colors and the harmony of yin and yang. Even human beings, the lords of creation, cannot fully replicate their beauty. Flowers continuously give off fragrances that captivate the hearts of the bees and butterflies attracted to their dazzling colors. Flowers can absorb the powerful, brilliant rays of the sun that humans cannot bear to look at. They diffuse their light into natural rays of harmony and peace and utilize them to create and preserve life. Flowers also do not neglect their duty to provide nectar to the bees and butterflies that busily fly back and forth, helping them reproduce.

Designed for Interdependence and Mutual Prosperity

The miracle of God’s creation is infinite, transcending and defying any human description. Even a picture drawn by the greatest artist in the world cannot compare to a cluster of living wildflowers. In creating a single insignificant flower, God the Creator, opens the way for the flower to realize harmony in itself, and contribute to the interdependence and mutual prosperity of the whole of creation. Given that this is so, how much greater is the stature of human beings, whom God created as His children, His eternal partners of love and His heirs?

Each and every one of the millions of different kinds of flowers in full bloom maintains its dignity as an individual embodiment of truth under the majestic Principle of Creation. They create harmony in Mother Nature and abide by the laws of interdependence and mutual prosperity. Likewise, each and every human being has Heaven’s blessing and grace to seek harmony, peace, freedom and happiness, and to find eternal life. Heaven has bestowed on each person the life and characteristics of an individual being.

That is to say, every human being is born with the rights and privileges of an individual embodiment of truth. This means that every person, regardless of age, sex, rank or status, is destined to follow a course of life that is uniquely his or her own, and that reflects his or her individual nature.

Only You Can Be You

Can you find another person who resembles you one hundred percent? Think about it. Is there anyone else who possesses the same individual qualities as you? Would the lives of identical twins who were born on the same day and time, and who may even die at the same time be the same? No person can take another person’s individuality, even if he or she is the world’s most blessed, and the other person is the world’s most miserable, because that miserable person is a unique embodiment of truth.

God, the king of wisdom, continually creates eternal, individual embodiments of truth, in accordance with God’s Principle of Creation. In this we can discover the standard of absolute value that makes a human being human. As with the interdependent and harmonious relationship between flowers and butterflies, human beings were created to live for one another and share true love. This means that the human standard of absolute value is established only within a life of true love. When the relationship between subject and object partners blooms in harmony.

Flowers and butterflies form relationships as subject and object partners. They depend on one another and prosper through their give-and-receive action. In the same way, the Principle of Creation defines and predicts the course of relationships between humankind and nature, between people, and between God and human beings.

Relationships help us reach our potential

Thus, Mother Nature is the combined body of all the individual embodiments of truth in creation, harmoniously bound together. Mother Nature stands as an absolute object partner before human beings, her subject partners. Her ordained role is to enable human beings to realize their absolute value.

In the same way, people establish families of three generations and live within that basic framework. There they learn and familiarize themselves with the vertical and horizontal relationships of above and below, left and right, and front and back. This means that each individual seeks a life of harmony and love through give-and-receive action. These relationships enable each family member to attain his or her absolute value as an individual embodiment of truth.”

Sun Myung Moon, 12/8/2006

Discussion

• What did Lessons from a Flower say to you?
• What unique truth do you bring to the world or how does God uniquely love through you? Do you have confidence that God wants to do something through you that only you can do?
• What do you consider to be the rights and privileges of being a human being?
• Write down some ways you manifest the laws of interdependence and mutual prosperity in your life.