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Monthly Journal no.8 a p ri l, 2009

Easter Sunday Sermon

Easter with Lovin’ Life Ministries
Will Keep Us Comin’ Back for More!
Lovin’ Life Ministries Rocks!
“Deeper Water” Sermon

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by Rev. In Jin Moon
April 12, 2009 Manhattan Center, New York

G
ood m o r n i n g , first Sunday after the vernal, the great event, making arts
brothers and or spring, equinox, when the and crafts, decorating eggs with
sisters. Please sun crosses the equator, and different dyes and crayons with
have a seat. I’m Christians have come together my children.
delighted to be with you this to remember this day of I remember my husband
morning on this beautiful Easter resurrection. For a lot of the always putting on a rabbit-ear
Sunday. And thank you for younger people in the audience, headband to get into the spirit.
coming into the city to worship Easter is one of those days that we Before I sent him off to hide these
with me here at the Manhattan look forward to because Easter special, precious eggs that the
Center. We’re truly delighted to means Easter bunnies, chocolate children would discover all around
have you. eggs, and arts and crafts. I am no our house, I would make a big
Ever since the year 325, different. I remember spending puffball of cotton for him and stick
Easter has been observed on the many days in preparation for it on his butt. That’s when he knew

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that it was time to go: He had only But of course when we grow asked this question not out of
30 minutes to hide those precious older, we understand the real weakness but because he realized
eggs. significance of what Easter is. he wouldn’t have any more time to
While I was keeping the It’s really a day of resurrection. fulfill what he had come to do.
kids busy in the kitchen, making But the day of resurrection was Even in the eleventh hour,
cookies, doing paintings about preceded three days earlier by even when the disciples that he took
what Easter means, or making the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. with him to pray at Gethsemane
beautiful renditions of the bunny, That has got to be the most heart- fell asleep, Jesus came back after
my husband would be going around breaking, most painful aspect of the first prayer and asked them,
the property like a Ninja. He’d go our human history, that week prior “Can’t you just stay awake for an
behind the house, making sure no to the crucifixion when Jesus faced hour?” And he went back to pray.
children were in sight, and then his trial and experienced his own And then he came back and realized
run to the front, hiding the eggs disciples’ denial, especially Peter’s. that they were heavy-lidded again.
in the bushes. Then we’d see him Jesus actually foretold that Peter Then he prayed again, and when he
disappear into the garage, or the would deny him. And there was came back the third time and saw
annex, as we called it, to hide some the heartbreak and pain that one of that they were still sleeping, Jesus
eggs there. his disciples, Judas, sold him for a realized that the time had come
I remember that he was chunk of change. Can you imagine and that he would be facing his
so satisfied with himself when what the son of God must have physical death.
he came back undetected and been feeling at that time? His crucifixion was an
undiscovered. Then we would give I want to share with you how incredible tragedy for humankind.
the children the go-ahead: “It’s my father feels when he thinks But of course we know that
time for the Easter egg hunt!” The about Jesus and that sad moment. three days later, through the
five screaming little munchkins Nothing is more heartbreaking than resurrection, Jesus had a spiritual
would disappear all around the to hear the words of Jesus Christ in victory. Jesus could stand in the
house, from the second floor on his prayer at Gethsemane. I think position of a spiritual father. We
down to the basement, all around a lot of the believers understand also hear in the Bible about the
the property, into the bushes. Off the prayer as a sign of weakness emergence of the Holy Spirit, in
they went. We would be waiting on Jesus’ part, especially when the second chapter of Acts, where
for their little squeals of delight Jesus asked his Heavenly Father if we see a true mother figure come
when they discovered the eggs. this cup could pass. But Jesus was into being. Together with Jesus
We as parents would just be in the the son of God. If Jesus came to Christ, the Holy Spirit became
house, waiting for those baskets to die and he realized that this was the spiritual true parent. For over
come back. For the little kids, that his divine mission, then wouldn’t 2,000 years they have worked hard
was what Easter was all about. he have ushered in his death as a to bring unbelievers into the realm
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of love and into the understanding appeared before him and asked the mall. I’m really not sure, Jesus
of who Jesus Christ really was. my father, the Reverend Dr. Christ, if this is for me. I don’t
What about the physical Sun Myung Moon, “Please fulfill really see how going to the mall
victory that Jesus longed so much my mission, please fulfill God’s and saving the world have anything
to substantiate? That is why he original purpose of creation, to do with each other.” Or maybe
uttered the prayer asking God please build the ideal family. I some of you might fall down and cry
if he could have a little bit more am only a spiritual victor in that I because you saw Jesus, you heard
time. We know now that Jesus am the spiritual true parent, but I Jesus, you experienced Jesus.
did not have time before he was need you to fulfill my mission and From what I know, that
crucified. Yes, there was great establish the physical true parents, experience of the 16-year-old
victory in the spiritual salvation, substantiating God’s dream of an boy whom I call my father was
an incredibly profound one. It
changed his life forever. From the
“Jesus knew that he came not to die but to fulfill moment that he said, unwillingly at
first, “Yes, I will try my best; I will
God’s original purpose of creation. What is that
fulfill your mission,” that poor boy
original purpose of creation? has never, ever wavered.
It’s to create an ideal family.” Just recently, on January 31,
we had the honor of celebrating
my father’s birthday. I’ve never
in the resurrection. But still quite ideal family.” seen my father so happy for so
a few works needed to be done. I know many of you in the long. I feel that he was so happy
Jesus knew that he came not to die audience might be around the age spending time with you because he
but to fulfill God’s original purpose of 16. I ask you the question, if Jesus could feel your spirit, he could feel
of creation. What is that original Christ appeared before you this the love the American members
purpose of creation? It’s to create morning and said, “Can you please have for him. I think in his mind
an ideal family. fulfill my mission?” what kind of he was hoping, “Just as I was
The Bible alludes to the fact an answer would you give? Maybe changed on that Easter Sunday,
that Christ would have to come you would think, “Well, I really I’m hoping my American children
again. For thousands of years, wanted to get my driver’s license. can go on with the same devotion,
people have been waiting for the I have a driver’s ed class to go to, the same determination, and the
Second Coming of Christ. Then and then I have to practice driving same commitment that I’ve kept
what happened? In 1920 a young so that I can get that permit.” Or throughout my whole life.”
Korean boy was born; when he maybe some of you would think, “I As a daughter looking at
turned 16 and knelt to pray on promised my friends I was going this father, who’s 90 years old,
Easter Sunday morning, Jesus to spend some time with them at sometimes it’s a very interesting

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experience for me. He can still be a mom and a dad. I know that Baptist. He was the Elijah returning
outspeak anyone. Just recently in regardless of what we might think to proclaim to the world that Jesus
Las Vegas he spoke for 11 and a half when we’re young, “Oh, I never was the messiah.
hours. Those poor leaders couldn’t want to be blessed, I never want John the Baptist came from
even take a bathroom break; they to be married, I’m going to be a prominent family. His father
had to sit there listening. I was independent and do my own thing,” was Zechariah; his mother was
watching them, wondering what when the biological clock starts Elizabeth. He was a second cousin
was going through their minds right ticking, we start thinking about to Jesus Christ because Elizabeth
then. He can outdance anyone. I those little pink and blue things and Mary were cousins. The Bible
remember my kids coming to me in the baby department. We start refers to him as a very educated
after being at Hoon Dok Hae at the wanting a family; we start wanting man, quite prominent and devout.
90th birthday celebration. They to experience what it would be like But parts of the Bible refer to Jesus
said, “Ooh, Mom, Grandfather to love something as yours. as having a very difficult childhood,
really can move.” And especially This was the desire out of a very hard life.
when he put in his two twists, my which our universe was created, and When you look at these two
kids were like, “I had no idea!” I this was the dream that God had in cousins, you have to wonder, how
said, “You know what? Maybe wanting to establish Adam and Eve could John the Baptist say he didn’t
that’s why you’re such great as his first physical manifestation know Jesus? They were cousins. How
dancers. You didn’t know you got on earth, to carry on his lineage. could he not know? If Heavenly
it from grandfather, did you?” But then we know what happened, Father blessed John the Baptist to
He can stay awake longer right? Adam and Eve messed up. be such a prominent figure, could it
than anyone. Even many teenagers They made a mistake, and human have been that maybe because of his
cannot outlast this man. Not only history had to pay a great price own prominence and position, there
is he physically such an incredible before we could welcome the son was something in him that made him
specimen of a human being, but I of God, Jesus Christ. struggle about whether he should
have never seen anyone so obsessed I’ve often thought about hand everything over to Jesus, to
with a singular dream and purpose, why people had such a hard time this second cousin with a question
totally driven to make it into a understanding Jesus. Even the of illegitimacy around him?
reality. Bible speaks of Jesus as a self- I am sure that John the
Father has said over the proclaimed messiah. He was badly Baptist struggled with this issue.
years that what is most central in misunderstood. He was questioned. When we read the Bible, we know
the universe is the parent-child The issue of illegitimacy surrounded that ultimately because John the
relationship because that is why him his whole life. When you read Baptist could not proclaim Jesus as
God created the universe. God the Divine Principle, you realize the son of God, this sowed disunity
wanted to experience what it that this misunderstanding should among the people and helped lead
would be like to be a parent, to have been cleared up by John the to his crucifixion.

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I think about how often I did not know English when this Oriental girl was fighting
my father has said to me that I first came. In American culture, I back; I was making fun of them
Christianity was prepared in the was a chink, a Moonie. I remember just as much as they were making
same way to receive the messiah one incident at middle school. fun of me. He came to my side
and to proclaim him to the world, Sometimes girls can be really nasty and said, “Ladies, ladies, you are
and how often he has said that to each other, much more nasty much more beautiful when you’re
had Christianity united with than boys. I remember a group smiling.” Then he took my hand,
him, the world would already be a of four or five girls who followed and we walked down the hall
peaceful world. But we know that me around in the hallways, saying, together. I looked back and saw
Christianity had a hard time uniting “Isn’t your father Reverend Moon? these not-so-nice girls with their
with my father, and, therefore, he Aren’t you a Moonie? Aren’t you jaws dropping, “Oh, my God, the
had to go out into the wilderness, a cult? You’re a Moonie. Your jock of the school is walking down
build his own church, raise his own father thinks he’s the messiah.” I the hall with a Moonie!” He said
disciples, come to America… turned around and said, “Do you to me, “In Jin, let me apologize for
At first he was embraced even know what Moonie means? In their immature behavior. I’m so
because the message of true love is so my language, in Korean, it means ashamed I belong to this school.”
beautiful. It’s undeniable; it’s what I a design. 무늬 (Moo-neui) is like a We became great friends, even to
call simple elegance. I remember in design on something. So you can call this day.
the 1970s my father was given the me Moonie as much as you want, That’s what a John the Baptist
keys to every state of the United but the way I’m understanding it is. At that moment, he was my John
States, and people were joining our is that you’re calling me a beautiful the Baptist. If the real John the
church, several hundred a week. The design of this school. And I have a Baptist had been there for Jesus,
centers weren’t big enough. design on you that one day you’re he would not have been crucified,
Then what happened? People going to say it lovingly.” and we would not be celebrating
were afraid that this Oriental man When I talked to these girls, the spiritual resurrection of Jesus
was exercising too much influence they were literally a choir, saying Christ. I’ve often wished that my
over young Americans. Then we “Moonie, Moonie.” I thought, father had a true John the Baptist,
saw a backlash, saw the persecution “Okay, the only thing I can do somebody who’s prominent in our
start, saw ourselves being labeled as is clap along, at least turn it into society, somebody who runs maybe
Moonies, being belittled as weird, a performance.” One boy was a megachurch. Maybe God would
being categorized as cultish. How watching this whole thing. He was bless that person so that he or she
many times did I see the newspapers what you would call the hot kid on could stand in the position of John
refer to Rev. Sun Myung Moon as the block, the jock that every girl the Baptist to share with the world,
the self-proclaimed messiah? Just wanted to be with. Having gone “Guys, the Second Coming has
as the Bible refers to Jesus as the out with every girl in the school, already come. It might not be in
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he’s here.” Maybe some people are people yourselves.” No. True Parents nurture them so they can become
waiting for a Jesus to return that are saying, “Just as we have become great. How wonderful it would be if
looks like Ben [Ben Lorentzen, one True Parents, you can become true we could give a little bit of ourselves
of the performers]! Doesn’t he look parents, too.” We can graft onto in the different categories that we
like Jesus? this true olive branch and share in happen to be really good at, that
Maybe they weren’t expecting this lineage of our Heavenly Parent we can be passionate about, and in
a robust, funny, engaging, and and in so doing become one family so doing, as representatives of this
compelling man like my father. under God. great country, go out into the world
But my father and share the
came. And you good news.
know what?
“True Parents are saying, ‘Just as we have become J e s u s
Despite all the brought us the
persecution and
True Parents, you can become true parents, too.’ good news, but
the difficulties, We can graft onto this true olive branch and share you know what?
he just kept on in this lineage of our Heavenly Parent and in so True Parents
going, one step at
doing become one family under God.” brought us the
a time. He had a breaking news.
huge dream, but It’s breaking
he took things Brothers and sisters, this is news time,
one step at a time. an incredible time. Just as the egg brothers and sisters. This breaking
It was a glorious day in 1960 symbolizes life and the potential of news is a message of hope, a
when the world could witness the what it can be, this Easter Sunday message of love. It is an invitation
Marriage of the Lamb. He found morning symbolizes our life and to live our lives filled with gratitude
the True Mother; they were wed the potential that we have in our and happiness, in celebration and
in holy matrimony and thus could hands to determine what kind of appreciation of each other, not
substantiate the beginning of the people we want to be. I’m hoping being the kind of religious people
dream that our Heavenly Parent that as Americans, not only should who judge but instead the kind
wanted to realize in the body of we stand as loving couples, loving of religious people who have an
Jesus. Jesus’ mission is still carried on families, and loving children, but incredible capacity to love, who can
to this day with our True Parents. as proud and loving Americans we raise up not only beautiful children
True Parents didn’t come just can share a little bit of our blessing but inspire our young people to
to tell you, “Look how great we with the rest of the world in service, become a generation worthy of the
are. We are the first man and the through mission work. name Generation Peace.
first woman to stand before you as My father has built so many Our children need not die at
perfected Adam and perfected Eve, hospitals and schools all around the school. Just last week somebody
and you guys cannot become great world, hoping to teach people and came into a civic center and

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killed 15 people. Another person people are looking for meaning. maybe they can come back home
killed three policemen. We have When somebody like Madoff runs to church and worship together so
numerous school shootings all off with billions of dollars of his that they can truly celebrate the
around the country. Our children clients’ money and these people life that they’ve been given.
need not die just because they who were once the pillars of high When I call this ministry
want a chance to study and get society are standing out in the cold Lovin’ Life Ministries, it means
better. Our children need not with nothing, I’m sure they must that it’s not about Rev. In Jin
be afraid of going to Palestine or be looking for meaning in their Moon. This is about you and
Israel, walking the streets in fear lives. me, all of us in this room, and all
of suicide bombers. Why bars? Because people of our lives that combine in this
We as parents need to do our want to feel connected to each incredible tapestry called the
mission of creating and encouraging other. They want to find some human experience, the tapestry of
ideal and loving families, really kind of commiseration together the children of God. I’m hoping
showing our children how we can over a bottle. And why the movie that as we move forward and get
live in a multicultural, multireligious theaters? People want relief, so to know each other a little better
society with respect and honor. they go to forget. each Sunday, we can realize how
We don’t want to just coexist with But I was thinking, maybe beautiful everybody is, how much
each other, like the bumper sticker this severe economic crisis is a way we can learn from each other, and
that you see all over the place says. God is helping all of us ask the very how much we must be grateful that
Instead of different religions and simple and very profound questions we have this opportunity to build
cultures merely coexisting and about the meaning of life. Maybe and live in an ideal family that Jesus
putting up with each other, how God wants us to go back to church. never had a chance to do.
incredible would it be if we could Maybe God wants us to come back Let us not be heavy-lidded,
actually love each other! home. And instead of just asking brothers and sisters. Let us not
Yesterday I was watching what is the meaning of life, maybe be asleep like those disciples at
the news. Some commentators people will actually realize that the Gethsemane. Let us open up our
were saying how this is the worst answer is within and they can find eyes and realize that we’re living
economic crisis in the history of empowerment in the church. in a providential time, that we’re
America. They were throwing For those people who are living in a time when the Second
out dire warnings. One of them looking for connectedness in bars, Coming, our True Parents, walks
said, “The economy is really bad, maybe they can come home to with us, encouraging all of us to
and the only things that are doing church and realize they can do it become true parents.
well in society are the churches, much better here; instead of just On this beautiful Easter
the bars, and the movie theaters.” commiserating, they can actually morning I’m hoping that we can all
This person talked about how learn to love. And maybe instead of remember our dear brother Jesus,
the church is thriving because going to movie theaters to forget, that we can remember our True

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Parents and remind ourselves that

we are a phenomenal movement.
We are the most successful
movement, while the founder is
still alive.
I’m hoping you’ll invite me to
your 90th birthday party. I would
like to see you bogeying with the
moves that my children were so
gung-ho about when they saw their
grandfather.
I’m hoping that as we move
forward and pass on into the next
life, we can reap the rewards of a
life well lived, that we can be with
our ancestors and they can be
happy for us, that we can be with
our brother Jesus up in heaven and
we can be happy for him.
Brothers and sisters, let’s
open up our eyes on this Easter
morning. I would like to leave you
with a quote from a famous British
novelist, Graham Greene. He is
remembered as saying, “The door is
always open for the future to come
in.” The door is open on this Easter
Sunday morning, brothers and
sisters, and the future is what we
make it. So I’m hoping that we can
make it a loving one, a respectful
one, and a celebrating one. So
welcome to Lovin’ Life Ministries,
and see you next week.

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Lovin’ Life Ministries
Will Keep Us Comin’ Back
for More!
by Celine Tardy

Lovin’ Life Ministries

Rocks!
Testimony by Dr. Donna

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1,300 attendees in the beautiful Grand Ballroom, with

Easter with Lovin’ Life more than 300 more people watching via broadcast in
the Hammerstein.
Ministries Will Keep Us After a profound message that touched so many

Comin’ Back for More!

at once, the service closed with more outstanding
band performances of such songs as “Everlasting
by Celine Tardy Love,” incorporating the theme that each person

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he brand new Lovin’ Life Ministries, with in the audience had the potential to truly love. The
services to be held each Sunday at 10am at congregation was welcomed to stay afterward for
the Manhattan Center, kicked off on Easter fellowship and personal greetings with the pastor,
Sunday, April 12, 2009. With outstanding musical Rev. In Jin Moon.
performers who created a phenomenal presence Many were astounded by the beginning of this
of worship in their music, mixed together with an new and fresh service they had seen and were excited
“everlasting” message from Rev. In Jin Moon, the to return again. Rev. In Jin Moon left the audience
congregation felt alive and “lovin’ life”! with a quote in her sermon from the famous British
At 10am sharp, the full band, which included novelist, Graham Green, “The door is always open for
a mixture of professional musicians and talented future to come in”. She expressed that the future is
singers accompanied by a full choir directed by a what we make it, “so I am hoping that we can make it
superb conductor, started to perform a variety of a loving one, a respectful one, and a celebrating one.
music that established an instant connection with Welcome to Lovin’ Life Ministries!”
the congregation. The rendition of the well-known
song “Amazing Grace” brought people to their feet,
which was followed by Ben Lorentzen’s performance
of his own song, “Dream the Dream,” and an awe-
Lovin’ Life Ministries
inspiring version of the Australian Hillsong Church’s Rocks! Testimony by Dr. Donna
famous “With Everything” that together with the

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whole band echoed throughout the ballroom and t was an awesome beginning! Family Federation
through everyone’s souls. The beautiful voice of Ilhwa for World Peace and Unification members
Yokpore was heard next with her version of “A Living and guests coming from New York, New
Prayer” that was over the top, stunning in quality and Jersey, Connecticut, Boston, Washington, D.C., and
spirit. even Ohio greeted the inauguration of Lovin’ Life
A selection of scripture readings were projected Ministries at Easter Sunday Service. This was my
on screens and read aloud by a lovely female voice to family’s experience on that day:
be seen and heard with reverence. Then the lights in When we entered The Grand on the 7th floor of
the room brightened, and Rev. In Jin Moon appeared the Manhattan Center, we saw subtle, smoky light rays
at the podium to speak to the congregation of over around the band on the stage and mystery columns or

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projected pillars of light creating a fantasy illusion of Then, they sang “My Sweet Lord,” a Beatles song
structure behind the band. “Is this a magical mystery by George Harrison with both Christian and Hindu

Ministries
tour?” I whispered to my husband. Twenty minutes motifs:
before the service began, Rev. Henri Schauffler came My Sweet Lord, I really want to see you,
over to us and engaged us in conversation, rekindling Really want to be with you,
a relationship from over twenty years ago. Then we, Really want to see you, Lord.
by Dr. Donna
in turn, introduced ourselves to a couple sitting next But it takes so long, my Lord.
to us who had driven all the way from the southern Hm, my lord (Hallelujah)
New Jersey shore. Already we felt a message: People My, my, my lord (Hare Krishna)
matter; people care. These selected songs seemed readymade for our First
Now, it was not solemn and still, like some Generation audience of parents and missionaries
churches. Everything seemed internally moving…. from our early church of the 1970s. The music was
And there were no programs to read. “Where are accompanied by projected images of the ocean, Easter
the Easter flowers?” I whispered. It was going to be flowers, and the song lyrics.
a surprise…. Along with this wide-reaching embrace of an
Soon, David Hunter, the Master of Ceremonies, electrifying professional music ministry, the Easter
came out on the stage. “Are you ready?” His capacious message of Rev. In Jin Moon captured my heart as well
voice boomed as though he had the capacity to inhale as the heart of my husband and our 14-year-daughter.
the entire atmosphere of the hall inside himself and My daughter commented, “The thing I liked most
then exhale it in one swift breath to every corner and about the Easter celebration was the music and Rev.
space of the entire hall. “Let the service begin,” he In Jin Moon’s speech. Her speech was funny but, at
boomed. “What a blast!” I thought to myself. the same time, inspiring.”
The music began with the internal, soul-searching Hearing Rev. In Jin Moon was like being part of
spiritual, “Amazing Grace…how sweet the sound…that a conversation with her. As the daughter of Reverend
saved a wretch like me….” This was like Christian church, and Mrs. Moon, she spoke in a candid and forthright
after all, with rock band flair and new age technology. manner, appealing to my head and heart with
Diego Costa, Ilhwa Yokpore, and Ben Lorentzen sang explanations about how she reflects on her life, the
beautifully and from their hearts. contemporary world we live in, and her relationship to
One song performed was “Everlasting Love,” a song her father. Gifted in integrating levels of experience
by Gloria Estefan. from her own family upbringing to parenting her
Hearts go astray, Leaving hurt when they go. own five children, she related to Second and Third
I went away Just when you needed me so. Generation children as well as the parents and elders
Filled with regret, I came back beggin’ you. in her congregation who have known her parents’
Forgive, Forget! Where’s the love we once knew? ministry for many years. She recalled her father’s
Open up your eyes, Then you’ll realize. dancing, especially how his grandchildren were awed
Here I stand with my Everlasting Love.

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that he could dance in public at age 90. She mimicked of the Kingdom of Heaven, which could only come
his quick, dancing moves. to be through a pure family of sinless true parents
Her Easter message recalled the sacrifice of endowing a new family lineage to all the people of the
Jesus, the tremendous beauty and loyalty of his world. Rev. In Jin Moon further explained that the
offering on the cross, and the spiritual resurrection true purpose of her father and mother’s mission was
he accomplished. She explained the deep revelation to enable God to re-create this new family lineage by
of the Divine Principle that shows the true suffering becoming the Third Adam and True Parents in God’s
of Jesus himself and God’s ultimate sorrow brought providence.
about by the tragedy of Jesus’ crucifixion. Because With the music and Easter message having
God originally intended Adam and Eve to be his reached multiple levels of meaning, Rev. Jesse Edwards,
heirs and cocreators of His pure lineage, the Kingdom of the Christian Pentecostal tradition, followed Rev.
of Heaven on Earth was to begin with the original In Jin Moon’s sermon with a reminder about the
family. To reverse Adam and Eve’s fall, Jesus intended sacrifice of Jesus and the cross, and the victory of his
to restore and reestablish a physical family and heartfelt unity with God and his resurrection.
To me, the Lovin’ Life
Ministries illuminated a
“Her Easter message recalled the sacrifice of Jesus, connection between the past,
the tremendous beauty and loyalty of his offering present and future through
on the cross, and the spiritual resurrection he music and the message. Rev. In

accomplished. She explained the deep revelation of Jin Moon is a unique minister,
a woman, who is called to bring
the Divine Principle that shows the true suffering a new message and genuine
of Jesus himself and God’s ultimate sorrow brought relationship among peoples
about by the tragedy of Jesus’ crucifixion.” of diverse backgrounds. This
experience of Lovin’ Life
lineage that would usher in the Kingdom of Heaven Ministries reminded me of a photo of Rev. Sun
in a pure, earthly society. Without a physical family Myung Moon holding his fishing rod up against the
lineage from Jesus due to the crucifixion, God had to background of an expansive blue sky. The rod is the
re-create a third Adam who could fulfill this physical symbol of truth, and the sky is the symbol of the God’s
family lineage. wide, embracing parental love for all.
Thus, as Rev. In Jin Moon explained in Lovin’ Life offered fellowship after the service
thoughtful and deeply moving words, we can know with Rev. In Jin Moon and her staff. An awesome
that the deepest sorrow of Jesus on the cross, as well beginning! Lovin’ Life Ministries rocks!
as God’s ultimate sorrow, was deeper than the anguish
of his life’s tragic ending. The fullness of God and
Jesus’ pain was that the entire world would be bereft

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Lovin’ Life Ministries Sunday Sermon by Rev. In Jin Moon
April 19, 2009 Manhattan Center, New York

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ood morning, brothers weekend was a bit of cloudy skies, signifies many different things,
and sisters. And good and perhaps a little bit of rain. but most importantly it signifies
morning to New But I realized that our Heavenly a new beginning, a time when
Jerusalem and WestRock and Parent gave us a beautiful day, we can come out of the coldness
all the other boroughs that are and I hope your drive into the and the darkness of the winter
joining with us this morning city was a beautiful one. months and look forward to
via broadcast. I’m delighted I was just thinking about the lovely spring blossoms, the
to see all of you here at Lovin’ my parents this morning and beautiful flowers, and all the
Life ministries. I woke up this especially my mother because little creatures coming out of
morning and looked out my April happens to be her favorite the woodwork.
window. The forecast for the month. For my mother, April

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For me, it has always meant Such diversity: big, fat, small! You is because this country was truly
a time when I can re-evaluate and name it, America had it. prepared by God.” My father took
reassess what I would like to do for One of the first things that us to Washington, D.C., and said,
the remainder of the year. What my parents did was say, “We want “Let me show you why.” He showed
are my goals or the things I would you to taste America.” The first us that the Congress was convened
like to accomplish? So it’s truly place my father and mother took in prayer and that there was even a
meaningful for me to share this us was to McDonalds. I know that prayer room in the Capitol building
time with you. McDonalds is not getting such a where senators and congressmen
I’m sure you listened to the good rap because of what people can go to offer a prayer when they
words of the Bible and the words call cholesterol sticks and too are overburdened with the issues
of my father [from the readings]. much hamburger, but back then it of the day. Their time there can
My father has always greatly was something really neat. For a lot be a time of cleansing, a time of
loved this country of America. of my siblings, of course, we’d had healing and rejuvenation as they
Generally, America is seen as a beef, but we’d never had cheese remember the country’s heritage,
land of opportunity, but for my before. I still remember biting into which is really God.
father it was a land where he was a Big Mac, biting into something Father said to look at the
going to raise up young people to gooey and a bit smelly. But when dollar bills, even. We couldn’t
really, truly love God, a place where it worked its way down, it was read English at that point but
he could build the ideal kingdom absolutely divine. After the first Father pointed out that “In God
with the great American brothers bite, you just could not help but We Trust” was on all the bills of
nd sisters. gobble the whole burger up, and, American money. He said, “See,
I still remember flying in. I before you knew it, you wanted even in the things like money,
believe it was December 23, 1973, more. there is God here. There is God in
when my siblings and I flew on I remember my older brother, every aspect of this country.”
Korean Airlines in the hope of even when he was 11 years old, was I remember him telling us
seeing our parents in America. We very robust and strong. In our first many great stories about the
landed in Hawaii, spent some time visit to McDonald’s, he said, “Dad, courage and the faith of the
there, and then went to Seattle, can I have three more? My parents Pilgrims who came to this country.
Washington. Then we were riding watched him in delight, but there They escaped England to find the
to New York City, where we would was also a look of almost horror freedom to worship. They didn’t
see our parents. I was only eight on my mother’s face watching him want to be persecuted just for
years old, and I remember being down this Big Mac. That was our believing in something that they
wide awake and being so amazed first taste of America. wanted to believe in. They left
by the skyscrapers and all the Then my father and mother England for Holland and stayed
different colors of hair people had. said, “Kids, we have to give you a there for a while, but then the New
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New World was the land referred stored grain in the hold of the so that we could truly love the
to as the land of opportunity. The ship, but no one touched it. And American people.
first Mayflower inhabitants came even as the inhabitants settled, and That message has stayed with
to this country with the desire to so many of them died (over half of me throughout the years. Now
worship God. My father said that them died that first winter) they that I’m in my 40s and have five
this as the basis of the colonists’ never touched that grain because lovely children and am blessed
desire. That was with a husband
the true desire who is not afraid to
of God when he support me from
saw this country. “My father has been saying that the common the background, I
God wanted this language for all of humanity is true love. How realize my father’s
country to be a do you really love somebody? You have to wisdom in asking
Christian nation. us to deeply study
God wanted his
understand them.” the language. If
people to revel you really think
in his Word and about it, love is
to substantiate his Word, to live a they believed in the promise of about understanding. You feel
good life, build great families, and spring. They believed that it was loved when your wife understands
raise wonderful children. going to carry them forward. So you. And children feel loved when
What was the first thing our even as they were dying, they saved they feel their parents understand
Pilgrim Fathers did when they the grain with the belief in the them.
came? The first structure they built spring that would come because The difficult thing about
was a church. We all know that they wanted to plant and reap a interracial marriages and
they arrived in November 1620, harvest the next fall. My father and intergenerational gaps is that many
in the winter. One of the things mother continually told us these cultures speak their own language
that my father loved to point out stories, and they have become a and each generation speaks its
was that when they were crossing part of who we are. own language. It’s almost as if we
the seas, many strong storms came As we were going to school, don’t have a common language.
(one even knocked down a huge my father said, “Your job is to love But my father has been saying that
mast), but the people persevered America more than the American the common language for all of
in their faith. They persevered in people. How do you actually love humanity is true love. How do you
their belief that they were going to somebody? You have to speak their really love somebody? You have to
do God’s will, and here they came. language.” He encouraged us to understand them.
My father said that the get the finest education, to really Maybe a lot of the First
interesting thing about the understand the English language Generation in the audience might be
Mayflower is that the colonists thinking, “Interesting service; loud

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music!” But you know what? The education, you have to speak the coming upon these sturdy, hardy,
kids are thinking, “Louder, louder, best English, you have to love the weather-beaten fishermen and
harder!” It is in this language of true American people more than your saying, “Let me show you. I want
love that you can say, “I am going own, and you have to serve them to go catch some fish.”
to understand. I am going to love it with all that you can provide.” I I’ll bet that in the back of
because my children love it.” Maybe think my dad and mom are really Simon Peter’s mind, he must have
this is the younger generation’s way hip and really cool people. been thinking, “What is this dude
of saying, “Mom and Dad, this might Worshipping here together talking about? It’s the end of a
not be your cup of tea, but thank you at the Manhattan Center is a long and arduous day. I’m putting
for coming with me. I’m so happy wonderful opportunity to remind away my nets. Why does he want
you’re here.” ourselves how truly blessed we are. me to prepare a boat to go out?”
My father is 90 years old and Sometimes in the busy schedule of He actually voiced his struggle,
I’m in my 40s. We could stick a the day, I forget how much I really saying, “Jesus, we were out there
couple of generations in between have, and I forget sometimes how all day long and we didn’t catch
us. If I really wanted to, I might say incredibly precious this country is anything. But I will do as you ask
to myself, “Why is my father like for God. I was reading the Gospel me.” He resolved his struggle in
this? Why is he so obsessed with of Luke, which is interesting in the correct way, saying, “Lord, I
God, obsessed with the language that the theme of repentance and will obey you.”
of true love, obsessed with the forgiveness runs throughout. I was The interesting thing about
singular mission of wanting to reading Luke 4:31 to 5:16, the story this story is that Jesus says, “Let’s
create ideal families on earth?” about Jesus and the fishermen at fish in deeper waters.” Maybe the
But you know what? When I take the Sea of Galilee. I thought about fishermen were not catching fish
a step back and realize that he was this as I was reading it aloud and because they were afraid to go into
born in 1920, born in a different then in my mind visualized what the deeper, the mysterious, the
generation, but is a man who is this episode might have been like fearful waters. Maybe they stayed
probably the greatest proponent in human history. closer to shore. Maybe they were
of women’s leadership, the greatest Here I see Jesus coming to the hoping to see the fish in shallow
cheerleader for women in the Sea of Galilee, seeing two boats, waters. Yet Jesus said, “Let’s go
world to become great, it’s just and seeing fishermen getting ready to the deeper waters.” For me
unbelievable. to put their nets away for the day. these words deeper waters have
Coming from an Asian culture, Jesus goes up to Simon Peter and a lot of meaning. It’s a wonderful
where virtuous women are seen says, “Prepare this boat. I want to metaphor to think about because
as quiet, servile, and behind the take it out.” How would Simon deeper water doesn’t just mean
scenes, here is this 90-year-old man Peter have reacted to Jesus, who water. It means all things in life
from an ancient generation, saying, was viewed as a carpenter and not that are deeper, more profound,
“Daughter, you have to get the best known to be a fabulous fisherman, more mysterious, more powerful.

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Because Simon Peter obeyed He often told us children that monuments that this city has, then
Jesus and went into the deeper when he first came to New York they’re worthless because they
waters, he caught more fish than City and stood in front of the have no purpose.
he could handle. His boat couldn’t Empire State Building, he could When we find time together,
hold all the fish; he had to ask his not help but be overcome with my kids and I like to watch a DVD.
friends to come and bring another tears. Tears were streaming down I homeschool my kids, so there’s
boat. Even when the other boat his face, and he just could not no TV in the house, which means
came, they were both laden with so stop crying. Somebody asked him, they do a lot of reading. But when
much fish that they began to sink. “Father, why are you crying? Are we do pick a movie night, we pick a
Then Simon Peter said, “Lord, you okay?” He replied, “This is a movie that everybody wants to see.
forgive me, I’m a sinner.” He country prepared by God. This is a When my eldest son came home
realized that through obedience city prepared by God. The external from Scotland, one day he said,
to the Lord or obedience to God’s greatness is so apparent, but where “Mother, there’s this incredibly
will he was given an unexpected is the internal greatness of the funny movie. I like this actor and
blessing, more blessing than he American people?” He saw young Gwyneth Paltrow is in it. It’s
was ready for, more blessing than people using drugs right around the called Shallow Hal.” Have some
his nets could hold. Then what corner. He saw prostitutes walking of you seen it? He gave us a brief
happened? The onlookers, the down 42nd Street, hoping to turn a explanation of what the movie is
sons of Zebedee, John and James, trick. He saw young people literally about, and we thought, okay, let’s
saw the miracle of faith, came to lost, not knowing who they were, watch it.
their knees, and left everything to where they came from, or what It’s basically about a main
become Jesus’ disciples. their purpose in life was. These character who is so shallow that
When I think about these were the tears my father shed. he wants to date only the beautiful
chapters in Luke, considering When I think about this women of the world. But he’s so
America and its providential role, quote, I’m thinking that my father shallow that he’s not satisfied even
what comes to mind is that America was so sad for America because with a beautiful woman; he always
is an incredibly prepared country. it had become such a shallow finds something wrong with the
It is a blessed country in terms of country. Without God, everything woman. Maybe she’s incredibly
external things. We have the best loses meaning; without God, the beautiful, but she chews gum and she
education, the best entertainers, only things we want to strive in talks funny. Or another is wonderful,
the best schools to make us our life for is power, knowledge, engaging, and articulate but she has
whatever we want to become. But and wealth. If these are the driving a very strange toe. These are the
what my father came to America forces that gave rise to these great examples the movie gives.
to preach was to remind the people monuments that we call the Empire One day he comes upon a
that America was forgetting God, State Building or the Chrysler motivational speaker named Tony
our Heavenly Parent. Building, or the other incredible Robbins, who I’m sure some of you

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know about. He casts some kind of

spell over this guy (Hal), and from
“In which way are we going to be beautiful? ...
then on he can see only the inner
beauty of people. So here he is, the “What about in the truly beautiful way, the inner-beauty
serial dater, if you will, introducing way of understanding each other’s culture, recognizing
his dates to his friends, and the
how incredibly important each and every human being is,
friends just don’t get it. They’re
seeing the women externally, but
realizing that we were born here for a purpose, born to be
he’s seeing the women internally wonderful sons and daughters of God?”
for who they are. As far as he’s
concerned, she’s marvelous, she’s every human being is, realizing that of dawn. At 4:30 he would round
glorious. But to other people we were born here for a purpose, up all the members, and we’d go
maybe she’s a bit heavy or might born to be wonderful sons and out to sea. The first few days, it
have warts; she might not be that daughters of God? is absolutely beautiful. But if you
beautiful. When I hear the quote, “fish do it day in and day out, it’s really
Watching this movie as a in deeper waters,” I’m very much difficult.
family and talking about the movie reminded of my father because In my father’s customary
together, we said, “Maybe many most of you know that he loves style, we went out at 4:30 and
Americans see their country’s to fish. He spent endless days in didn’t come back until after 10
external greatness, but we need to Gloucester, Massachusetts, during pm or 11. Or sometimes my father
see America through God’s eyes. my summer vacations. I would have would say that we were going to
We need to see America with eyes the opportunity to spend a whole sleep on the ocean that night, and
seeing inner beauty and see if there’s summer with him. It’s probably we didn’t even get to come home.
anything beautiful to look at.” the most precious memory I have The next day at 4:30, it would start
In Korean, the word for of my father because if he was not all over again.
America, Mi-guk, literally translates on the boat, he was off around the I remember my father deeply
as “beautiful country.” This is a world and I never saw him. But meditating. At first I thought
beautiful country. But in which way on the boat I had the honor and he might be sleeping because I
are we going to be beautiful? Just privilege to take care of him. remember poking him in the side
externally? Just in the incredible God gave me a special to see if he was awake. He’s like,
things we can build, incredible blessing. I’m the only daughter in “Uuummph, In Jin!” I would say,
discoveries we can make? What the family who doesn’t get seasick. “Appa, I just wanted to check
about in the truly beautiful way, the Quite a few of my brothers get if you’re awake. Do you need
inner-beauty way of understanding seasick, too. I was naturally picked, something?” He would reply, “In
each other’s culture, recognizing if you will, to accompany my father Jin, I was meditating. Go down and
how incredibly important each and to the ocean every day at the break prepare something for the other

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people.” He would sit in his chair He was out every day, even not be afraid of the deep waters. Do
for hours. I would prepare some when 20-foot waves blocked the not be afraid. Believe. Believe.”
food. Since I was the only sister sky and there was lightning and It might have been a dream;
who didn’t get seasick, you know thunder. I remember one day the I might have hallucinating in my
what that meant? Designated Coast Guard posted warnings and fear. Who knows? The only thing
cook. Designated cleaner. I had said that all the boats needed to I know is that I heard what I heard.
a wonderful helper named Spiro. come back in, but my father said, Then an incredible serenity and
Both of us spent calmness came
the whole summer over me, almost
together, not like an out-of-
just taking care “Not only is my father preaching the beauty body experience,
of my father and within, but he is also emphasizing the where I saw
learning all his holistic living approach, taking care of our the ship being

bodies because we are divine beings.”

fishing tricks, but thrown around
also learning how and my father
to cook. outside, holding
I remember onto the line, and
preparing different meals and lovingly “No, no, just a couple of more had a feeling that everything was
taking the food to my father. He would hours.” Then we got a tuna on going to be okay. I said to myself,
always ask me, “Did the other people the line. I remember my father “Why did I ever doubt my father?
get food, too?” I would say, “Appa, you out there fighting that tuna with Even if I were to go, I would go in
ask me that all the time. You know I 20-foot waves crashing on both style, with my father.” Why was I
prepared food for them.” Then he said, sides of the boat. I’m peering out, ever afraid when I had my father
“Okay, put this down and you go take wondering what was happening. I right there before me? Maybe I
care of the crew.” I always felt so loved was so scared and wondered if we needed to have a little more faith
by this man. Even before he took his were going to make it home. that we could stay out a couple of
first bite, he was thinking about the The boat shook so badly and hours longer and head back.
crew, making sure they were okay. He aggressively that everything in the Head back we did, and, when
wanted me to serve. He wanted me to cupboards was falling out, sliding I got home, that was the first time
be his ambassador in serving the other side to side. The big fishermen I kissed the ground. It was so good
people on the boat. He said, “Because were being bounced around like to stand on the dock. I ran to my
you are my daughter, you should be ping-pong balls. Here I was, mother and literally bowled her
the first to prepare the food and the holding onto the couch, petrified over. She exclaimed, “In Jin, what’s
last to clean up.” He taught me that with fear. It was at that moment going on?” I said, “Omma, I’m so
from a very early age. that something came over me, like happy to see you.” She had no
a voice speaking to me, saying, “Do idea why this 12-year-old girl was

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screeching down the dock, literally protein in the world besides fish. the holistic living approach, taking
running her over. I remember her Would you like to try some red care of our bodies because we are
saying, “I love you, too.” This is a meat this year? Try some game?” divine beings. We are vessels that
special memory for me. But he loves seafood. God can work through.
There were many lessons like Here we are, a movement So just as we take time every
this that I learned in the course that’s more than three decades old Sunday to worship together, to
of the summer. Whenever I hear in this country. I think a lot of us clear our conscience, to love the
fishing stories from somebody with children are wondering, did Lord, and to come together as a
else or even when I read the Bible, we really make a difference? Many community, my father encourages
all these memories surface in my times I ask myself that question: holistic living. We have one of the
mind, and I’m taken back to that Did we really make a difference most influential pharmaceutical
very instant when I was literally as a movement? In an incredible companies in Korea that produces
hanging on for dear life, this little way, we did. The company my Il Hwa ginseng, introducing ginseng
girl in the middle of the ocean, with father founded a couple of decades to the American public. We are
her father still intent on catching ago called True World Foods is introducing fish as an alternative to
that fish. a seafood company. When he red meat and white meat because
I said to my husband, “Since initiated that project, nobody it’s healthier. My father has been
my father loves fishing so much, knew what sushi was or what eating taking care of America, even if we
and because he loves me so much, I raw fish was about. I remember didn’t realize it. All these things
am convinced that the reason we’ve going to school, hearing somebody he and True Mother have done
been blessed together is because mention sushi and the kids would have allowed the American people
your nickname is Fisheye.” That say, “Yuck. You eat raw fish? That’s to eat more fish, to become more
must be the reason Father blessed disgusting.” I remember hearing healthy. Maybe to do less cooking
me to this man. With those huge those words growing up. preparation because the true
eyes of love that remind me and But this company now wonderful characteristic of each
my siblings of a fish, here is this services more than 90 percent of ingredient should be savored and
beautiful person who’s going to be the best seafood restaurants in appreciated. The great thing about
staring at me for the rest of my life this country. I think my father going to a nice restaurant and
and forever onward. single-handedly got the world enjoying fine cuisine is that you
It’s no wonder that his to love sushi. So if you’re asking can taste the saffron, but maybe
favorite food is seafood. Every yourself the question, did we make not so much that it overpowers
Valentine’s Day when we try to a difference? Absolutely! We’ve the other flavors in the food. It’s
schedule a romantic dinner, it’s got been feeding America for the last that magical blending of herbs that
to be seafood. I don’t know how couple of decades. Not only is makes it truly divine.
many times we’ve talked together, my father preaching the beauty I think about America being
saying, “There are other types of within, but he is also emphasizing called a melting pot for so many

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years. Now it’s being called a people were looking for gold. Now dig deeper. The height that you see
salad bowl. Here is this great compare North and South America. must be equivalent to the depth
country where different races, The disparity is quite profound, that you don’t see. Emily Dickinson
religions, and cultures come isn’t it?” The difference, my father wrote in her poem “Aspiration”:
together and are melded into one says, is because North America was
American tradition, one American founded with the concept of God. We never know how high we are
consciousness. All of us who are America was conceived on the Till we are called to rise;
born in this country have the idea basis of God. It was this belief that And then, if we are true to plan,
that we are American, whether we carried on the dream of building Our statures touch the skies.
are mellow yellow, or red or black. this incredible country and made it
It doesn’t matter. We all think of into a reality. Brothers and sisters, we must
ourselves as American. You hear these three words not forget how incredibly gifted
I remember my father asking over and over in many different and how precious each and every
us children the question, if America sectors of the world today: You one of us is. Each and every one
is the melting pot, doesn’t the pot have to conceive and believe; of us was prepared by God to do
need heat to melt these things then you can achieve. America incredible things. But at this time,
together? What is this heat going conceived a dream. It was founded when God is asking America to
to be? This heat is God. on that conception of a dream. It awaken and tap into the spirit
It’s the power of true love was carried forward in the belief of the Pilgrim Fathers, we will
that turns America into an of our Pilgrim Fathers. Now we realize our greatness. In that way,
incredible melting pot. If we reach have to make America into a following God’s plan for America,
back to the consciousness of our great country and achieve that we will touch the skies.
Pilgrim Fathers, and we tap into dream. So, brothers and sisters, But no matter how high we
their courage and belief that they I feel in this second Sunday that go, we must always remember that
could create a world of Christian we’re sharing together that it is a we are based in the deep waters,
brothers and sisters, then America wonderful opportunity to remind in the mystery of our Lord, in
can become great once again. ourselves how incredibly blessed the compassion of our Heavenly
The most important thing we are, what an incredibly vast Father, and in the belief in our
that America was built on was future is waiting for us. God, our True Parents above.
belief in the Lord. My father says, Just as we strive to become a So brothers and sisters, this
“Look at the difference between great nation, just as we strive to go is going to be a wonderful Sunday,
North and South America. North higher and higher and higher and and I pray that many, many
America was built on the concept achieve many incredible things, blessings will grace your families.
of the Lord. The people came we must always return to God Please appreciate each other. Just
seeking freedom to worship. South and remember that if you want to as I look forward to learning so
America was cultivated because create a tall building, you have to much from you, I hope we can

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work together to make America King dreamed the impossible, and quickly. We need to come together
into that incredible country that through his belief and his hard and remind ourselves what an
God always dreamed it could be. work in the civil rights movement incredible time this is. Please join
In the spirit of the we have a president in the White with me in celebrating America, in
whole Obama campaign that House who represents the slaves of celebrating our lives, in celebrating
revolutionized America and this country. the dream, and in celebrating the
the world, in the thought that In the Last Days, the first belief of our Founding Fathers.
an African American can be will be last and the last will be Let’s redetermine ourselves to
elected to the White House, that first. So, brothers and sisters, achieve that dream and truly make
impossibility became a possibility incredible things are happening. America great once more.
and then a reality. Martin Luther The providence is moving very

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