Reverend Moon Teaches the Need to Respect and Care For the Natural Environment
Reverend Moon teaches the need to Respect and Care for the Natural Environment In Mid May Reverend In Jin Moon invited her congregation in New York to the rolling Hills along the Hudson River at the Belvedere Estate in Tarrytown, New York.
It was a day to enjoy the beauty of nature and refresh minds and hearts in a way that only nature can.
Reverend In Jin Moon took the opportunity to speak only for a short time as she wanted everyone to have most of the day to celebrate with activities prepared there and simply enjoy.
She reminded the older folks about their young years when they spent many happy days in celebrations at Belvedere Estate with her Father, Reverend Sun Myung Moon.
Now the children of those early American members are in their early 20's and came to the celebration where they enjoyed activities like dunking some of the well-known older folks in the dunk tank.
The lady Reverend called upon everyone to consider deeply the beauty of everything God created.
In the Unification tradition there is a day in late spring which is called "Day of all Things".
This was the day being celebrated at the Estate.
She noted that when we look around us at the beautiful trees and see the ground we're sitting on and the flowers blooming, we realize that we can experience a bit of the divine in the majesty of nature.
She said that she is always astounded by how much love and attention to detail God invested in each flower and even a blade of grass.
It always reminds her that God loved us so much that he created this perfect environment for his children to live in.
Further, it reminds her that God too, just like his children, needed and wanted to experience love with his children and for this reason he created the universe for us.
Pondering on this reality always brings her to her own family and children.
She is reminded that she must really be grateful for the chance to develop and grow the incredible human beings who are her children.
The entire congregation was moved to ponder that reality as their own families gathered there.
Reverend In Jin Moon went on to remember how her father taught her to respect and care for our natural home here on planet Earth.
This Day of all things is the day when a Moonie remembers his or her responsibility to care for and protect our earthly home.
It was Reverend Moon who clarified the difference between "dominating" and "dominion" when used in Holy Scripture.
Dominion is not about taking without giving back and not about controlling for selfish purposes.
Dominion refers to the responsibility to care for, protect, and develop the natural world so that all flourish-the natural as well as the human.
There must be love in everything we do as Children of God.
That does not limit love to human relationships but includes every activity we undertake each day.
When we work in a garden, we will achieve much more when we love everything we touch, down to the nameless wild flower.
Love means acting with an attitude of concern for what is best for the natural environment, even when it means harder work for the gardener.
It was a day to enjoy the beauty of nature and refresh minds and hearts in a way that only nature can.
Reverend In Jin Moon took the opportunity to speak only for a short time as she wanted everyone to have most of the day to celebrate with activities prepared there and simply enjoy.
She reminded the older folks about their young years when they spent many happy days in celebrations at Belvedere Estate with her Father, Reverend Sun Myung Moon.
Now the children of those early American members are in their early 20's and came to the celebration where they enjoyed activities like dunking some of the well-known older folks in the dunk tank.
The lady Reverend called upon everyone to consider deeply the beauty of everything God created.
In the Unification tradition there is a day in late spring which is called "Day of all Things".
This was the day being celebrated at the Estate.
She noted that when we look around us at the beautiful trees and see the ground we're sitting on and the flowers blooming, we realize that we can experience a bit of the divine in the majesty of nature.
She said that she is always astounded by how much love and attention to detail God invested in each flower and even a blade of grass.
It always reminds her that God loved us so much that he created this perfect environment for his children to live in.
Further, it reminds her that God too, just like his children, needed and wanted to experience love with his children and for this reason he created the universe for us.
Pondering on this reality always brings her to her own family and children.
She is reminded that she must really be grateful for the chance to develop and grow the incredible human beings who are her children.
The entire congregation was moved to ponder that reality as their own families gathered there.
Reverend In Jin Moon went on to remember how her father taught her to respect and care for our natural home here on planet Earth.
This Day of all things is the day when a Moonie remembers his or her responsibility to care for and protect our earthly home.
It was Reverend Moon who clarified the difference between "dominating" and "dominion" when used in Holy Scripture.
Dominion is not about taking without giving back and not about controlling for selfish purposes.
Dominion refers to the responsibility to care for, protect, and develop the natural world so that all flourish-the natural as well as the human.
There must be love in everything we do as Children of God.
That does not limit love to human relationships but includes every activity we undertake each day.
When we work in a garden, we will achieve much more when we love everything we touch, down to the nameless wild flower.
Love means acting with an attitude of concern for what is best for the natural environment, even when it means harder work for the gardener.