BECOMING GLOBAL CITIZENS OF PEACE

BECOMING GLOBAL CITIZENS OF PEACE


THE WORLD NEEDS LEADERS WHO CAN MAKE SACRIFICES FOR PEACE
Can we find anyone among the current leaders of the world who is genuinely concerned with the future of humankind and who is making the sacrifices necessary to bring harmony and peace to humanity on an interreligious and international level? Human beings are like children who have lost their parents, like misdirected youths who do not recognize their teacher, like sheep who have lost their shepherd. Human beings have become spiritually blind, unable to see even an inch in front of them.

CREATING A NEW UNITED NATIONS THAT LIVES UP TO ITS NAME
There are now some two hundred nations in the world. Yet, aren’t many of these nations engaged in fierce conflicts, directly or indirectly? Aren’t they all intent on pursuing their own interests? Even the United Nations, founded with the noble ideal of protecting the welfare and peace of humankind, has reached its limitations. Watching helplessly without a solution to the global crises of war, starvation and disease, isn’t the UN becoming an organization that exists more in name than in substance?

WHAT IS SELF-CENTERED INDIVIDUALISM?
Although humankind has seen terrible massacres, and suffered natural disasters,the human race has survived and continues to multiply to this day, seeking a bright and happy world—although with only a vague concept of what that might be. Why is it that the human race is still unable to escape from the mire of sin and disease?
Moral values in our world today are deteriorating rapidly. The moral laws governing the relationship between parents and children have been rejected. Fidelity between couples is being discarded as an old-fashioned idea of previous generations, and brotherly love between siblings has become rare and buried in the swamp of self-centered individualism.

ESTABLISHING HARMONIOUS FAMILIES
For these reasons, the most important thing to do is establish true families based on true love. This means we must build families in which three generations live together in true love with true parents at the center, because, this is the GREAT COSMIC TRANSITION TIME.


CREATING CITIZENS WHO LIVE FOR THE SAKE OF THEIR COMMUNITIES AND NATION
The question is what kind of person can be called a true owner. Someone who lives for others, caring for and sacrificing to serve others—in other words, a person who practices true love in daily life—can be called a true owner. Only someone who cares for all things in the creation with true love, protecting and nurturing them, can become a true owner of all creation.

This is an excerpt from a speech by Rev. Sun Myung Moon.