Creating Love between Partners I found a list of “horizontal” virtues 40 years ago, when I was just out of college and had despaired of ever finding true romantic love. I couldn’t imagine finding a girl who’d be faithful to me for life. And in truth, I couldn’t imagine that I had it in me […]
The Love of Music My wife and I became parents 25 years ago and it’s clearly a vast world, requiring long-term learning and growth. It’s apparent now that the next 25 years of our lives will be full of opportunities to learn things that we don’t yet know. But there’s one experience that I have […]
Reflections on the Path of Love When I was growing up, the idea of love was of the romantic relationship between a couple. That was the primary focus of all the TV, music, movies, books, magazines and ads. Sure, there was an acknowledgement of the other types of affection available in a family, but the […]
A Regal Dimension for All Families? In my last blog post entitled “Love x 3 x 4”, I touched on the four types of love that can be expressed and experienced in a three generation family. I’d like to continue examining the quality of the relationship between parents, grandparents and children in a family. Rev. Moon […]
Last weekend, I presented a talk at the Shehaqua Family Camp, Harvest Festival. The theme for this Festival was bridging the gap between generations. The following is an excerpt of some of the ideas I shared. Love Shared Through Generations I’ve been thinking a lot about the idea of three generation families since seeing off […]
Sacredness of the Teacher-Student Relationship Recently my wife and I watched a Japanese film called Hula Girls. It is the true story of a dying mining town in north Japan. The main characters are within a group of students and teachers. When we’d dried our tears and were reflecting on our experience, one theme that’s […]
Unification Thought Seminar This past weekend, I was to present a one-day seminar on the Divine Principle in New Hampshire. So during the week running up to it, I’d been assembling and arranging material which I thought would be interesting and relevant, which addressed ideals, realities and grappling with the difference between them. So that […]
Unification Thought Journey For the past couple of years, I’ve been on a journey with students of GPA (Generation Peace Academy) introducing Unification Thought. During this past school year, I have also been their Divine Principle coach. Now, as summer has arrived and the students have graduated, I’ve had a chance to reflect back on […]
