Living Between Two Worlds – Part 2 The topic of the spiritual world grabs our attention because all of us, even the skeptical, are hoping for validation that there is more to life than meets the eye. While a student at the University of Maryland, I volunteered with the CARP club. We had a video […]
“Life doesn’t come with a manual, it comes with a mother.” – Unknown “To the world you are a mother, but to your family you are the world.” – Unknown “A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.” – Dorothy Canfield Fisher “Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.” […]
The most important yet often neglected part of a relationship is communication. As a parent or partner you can easily get into the habit of giving directions and commands, expressing your expectations but not your heart. This can create friction and misunderstanding, even when you’re trying to make your point very clear and simple. Putting […]
When I was growing up I would wake up every morning to graphic news reports of the war in Vietnam. In elementary school, during the Cuban missile crisis, we did practice drills of hiding under our desks in case of bomb attacks. I lived in south Florida, so the threat was close. Parents Want to […]
The Divine Principle from a Unification Thought perspective The Second Blessing, part 8 In this series I’ve been writing about relationships, specifically family relationships; keeping in mind that the family is the root of all relationships. In the previous post I wrote about “vertical” order in the family, or the love of elders towards children, […]
The Divine Principle from a Unification Thought perspective The Second Blessing, part 7 In the last article, we’d examined an ordered structure which underlies everything in the created world. As the two diagrams we’d presented illustrate, there is a “vertical” relationship between satellite heavenly bodies and their parent bodies; and there is a “horizontal” relationship […]
The Divine Principle from a Unification Thought perspective The Second Blessing, part 6 Last time, I’d reflected on Unification Thought’s explanation of “order” within a family. And I’d discovered how important order was for me to relate more deeply with my extended family in the Philippines, particularly with my elders and juniors. I found a […]
This is an historic day, a national holiday of immense proportions. Those who celebrate this holiday today are creating the foundation for a future that recognises the value of parents, father’s and mother’s as a united team, in the formation of families. Although in the United States we already had a Mother’s Day and a Father’s […]
The Divine Principle from a Unification Thought perspective. The Second Blessing, part 5 We continue our examination of the Second Blessing as mentioned in Gen. 1:28: “So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be […]
This is part 1 of a 2 part series on Experiencing God’s Heart for Others. The second part will be published next Tuesday, 7/12/16. How do you connect to God’s heart? How do you tap into that source of unconditional love that is the creator and ruler of the universe? The cosmic heart. We talk […]
