A little assistant given by Mother

Mother

Why did You wear the clothes of a sinner

and come to this earth

for this sinful child full of faults?

Mother

For what are these sinners to You

that You give us love that is deep and broad like the sea,

and give us the courage

becoming the resting place for our souls?

Oh, Mother

I earnestly shout to You

I love You

I thank You

I love You eternally

This is a poem written by my eldest daughter who is in the 5^th grade, after the recent third day worship.

The sermon of that day was about ‘Mother’s love.’ I guess with a child’s mind she was touched, and when we got home, she wrote this poem with colorful pencils.

Reading this poem, I felt that a child’s love towards Mother is as deep as the grownups’.

My eldest child is my little gospel assistant.

She usually practices the teachings of Mother and greets people in a loud voice with a smile.

When the elders praise her, she smiles and says to me that God will also be happy about it.

She cannot work for the gospel since she is still young, but it was lovely seeing her efforts practicing the smallest things that she can afford.

She quickly wants to become a part of the student members so that she can bring friends to Zion, and tell them about God the Mother.

When I couldn't possibly stop home once in a while, she feeds her eight year old sister and takes her to the institute.

When I am exhausted with the hot weather, she plays the piano; the new song, for me.

I didn't do anything for my child.

I am just thankful to God the Father and God the Mother, making my child to realize and practice the teachings of Mother by herself.

I also thank God for filling up my lacking areas through my child, and for giving our family such a great blessing.

I will repay for God the Father and God the Mother’s grace by practicing the teachings of Mother with a thankful mind.

Mother thank You. I truly love You.

Family knows all ( voice of each other)

On my way to visit hometown during the Feast of Tabernacles, I went to my uncle’s house and kept the Feast of Tabernacle in Zion located around there.  

He couldn't really keep the evening service whenever he had to stay up all night at work.  Sometimes, he used to return home very late because he had to work even at dawn.  Thinking how much he went through in a situation he could not come to Zion with lots of tiring work, I felt so pity on him.

On the following day after the Feast of Tabernacles was over, I was going to keep the early morning service but at that time again, he did not get home after work.  Just guessing he must be still working, I left home with my aunt and cousins.  In the service, a pastor and our brothers and sisters used to take turns reading Father’s book and at that dawn also, we were reading a book like that way.

“Now, could next brother read that for us please?”

As requested by a pastor, one man in men’s seats started to read the book and my aunt was very surprised.

“Oh? That must be your uncle.”

We couldn't help being surprised too because it couldn't be even imagined before the service began.  The service was finally finished with our mind of giving thanks to God.  Then, my cousin who is only a first grader in elementary school moved our heart. 

“My son must be so surprised from very early in the morning?  Yon didn't know it’s dad, did you?  Then, he answered as if it was no big deal for him. 

“Of course I did.  It’s my dad’s voice.”  This little cousin’s words deeply moved my heart and I was about to tear. 

It was very impressive family can recognize each other with mere hearing of their voices instantly in unexpected situation.  I could realize living like a family make us know and feel everything about each other.

I would like to give thanks to Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother for allowing me to guide my uncle to Zion and to realize how precious our family more deeply.  Also, I truly give thanks for making me your daughter who could listen to your voice so I could recognize you are my Father and Mother.

90- year-old old mother and 70-year-old son

There lived a 70- year-old son who always carried his mom on the back every day.  For his mom who lost her leg in a car accident, the son carried his mom on his back and went everywhere in the neighborhood every day after work.

When he was asked by a reporter if it was not hard to take, he said, “Comparing to my mother who suffered so much to raise me up, this is nothing at all.” And he even talked more briskly just like a feather.  This son tries to make her happy, showing off his muscles and doing cute things like a little kid.  When his mother got asleep and the covering was about to finish, he called the reporter quietly.  Handing over the hot patch, he asked the reporter to put it on the back where he couldn't reach.  He didn't even show he put the hot patch on the back, thinking if she would worry.

Asking to myself if I have ever been nicer to parents, I couldn't really answer it confidently.  Comparing to this son old enough to get filial duty from his children, who rather concedes his back to his mother, I felt ashamed myself.

Our Heavenly Mother who sacrificed Herself throughout Her life and suffered so much….In spite of the very precious mission to preach the gospel with all my heart and mind, I just want to ask myself whether I was only a child who just has troubled Her.  Since heaven is the place where we cannot do filial duty to Mother, I will do my best to please Her as long as I stay on this earth.

When Love is Worth In Blood^^

World Mission Society Church of God conducts blood drive^^

Father’s Cap

My father raised us, three kid son behalf of my mother who died early.

One day, my father started to go out wearing my younger brother’s baseball cap. Ever afterwards he wore that cap.

That cap was all worn out so my brother just threw it away around a corner of his room.

Then suddenly, my father had a hypo pharyngeal cancer.

After a big surgery and while he was getting a treatment, he had his hair shaved. I guess he kind of felt shy with his hair, so he asked me to buy a hat for him.

I thought that he would like the usual baseball cap that he wore, so I bought one for him.

Thinking that he would surely like the cap, I gave it to him. But my father said,

"Why didn't you buy agentle man like hat... Baseball cap is childish...”

So I told him,

"This is the favorite usual cap that you wore.”

I just replied to him thinking that he was cold-hearted without realizing my heart.

But then my father said,

"Well, that was the only hat in the house...”

Listening to his words, I was so sorry and my heart ached so much.

My father didn't wear the baseball cap because he liked it, but it was because he couldn't afford to buy a new hat raising his children all by himself.

I guess children don’t consider parents’ heart even though they are fully grown.

They just believe in what they can see, and just want to be praised...

Feeling sorry, I swallow up my tears.

Love is God the Mother

Corinthians Chapter 13

Growing up as the only child, I received love from all of my family; grandparents, parents, aunts, and uncles.

Since I didn't know how to give love and was just familiar receiving it, it was still the same for me in Zion.

Even though I realized Heavenly Father and Mother’s love, I was a sinner who thought that Their love was reasonable.

Mother always emphasizes to ‘give love’.

It wasn't easy to put in my heart, the heaven’s love that I forgot, the love that Heavenly Mother continuously gives us.

I recently heard general pastor’s sermon about Mother’s love.

Reading Corinthians chapter 13 verses 4 to 7, I questioned myself when I could give this kind of love.

When general pastor said that this love is ‘the love that comes from Mother,’ my mind became vacant.

Corinthians chapter 13 abridged into one word:

‘Mother.’

Even when I didn't follow complaining that, ‘I can’t do it,’ ‘it is too difficult,’ ‘how can I give this kind of love,’ Mother was giving me that love that was difficult for me.

Mother was always giving this extremely boundless love, the love that considers more of Her children instead of Herself.

Mother, I now realize that You are the true nature of love. 

Please forgive this arrogant and foolish sinner. Please let me be the child resembling Mother’s love, and be the one who fully spreads Mother’s love in this whole world.

I will throw away my selfish self, and deliver Mother’s love that this world does not contain.