Morning Devotion Reflection, May 18, 2020

Reflection of Dr. Yong's Morning Devotion

Message:

May 18, 2020 by Rafael E. Ablong

Dear Dr. Yong,

Every time I listen to your message, I feel your sincerity and heart in explaining God and True Parents' sorrowful and longing heart.  I remember that in the UT Theory of Education, the Education of Heart is first and foremost when creating the basic foundation of a moral, God-centered individual. Your lecture goes deeper than the three kinds of Heart that Unification Thought Theory of Education requires us to inculcate in the minds and hearts of young kids and adults: God's heart of during the creation, God's heart when Adam and Eve fell, and God's painful, suffering and yearning heart of restoration.

I think you have explained this morning's topic "Thie Individual or Group that is not sorrowful for God will Perish" which essentially says positively that "an individual or group that is sorrowful for God will live". I have experienced so much sadness and sorrows in my life as the 5th of nine siblings in a very poor, hungry family.

I experienced so much sadness and frustrations in my life especially when my brothers and I have to tie our very own physical father to a tree so that he won't hurt himself or other people while waiting for his sickness or insanity to subside. It was painful to see him go to jail after he killed his own brother with a nail in the head, accidentally. Too much sadness and grief that still haunts me up until now. However, every time I offer all this grief, tears, and bleeding heart to God, I find consolation. I can easily relate to God this long-kept sorrows in my heart and I understand that this is happening to my life because God, our Heavenly Parent, lives like this every day of  His life. 

Looking at His children killing each other, throwing plates at each other when there is no more food in it, stealing to fill a hungry stomach, and whatever sadness, misery, cruelty, and disease there is to be told to you.

Thank you, Dr. Yong, for making me remember my sad past and traumatic experiences. Thank you for making me always forgive my parents and love them for their tremendous suffering, love, and care.  I feel that every time I listen to your message, it is like undergoing some form of socio-emotional therapy. It is healing my past by connecting whatever I have experienced to the sorrows, loneliness, and longing of God.

I am determined to liberate the sadness of God's heart by clinging to Him every moment of my life. By connecting what I do to the purpose of my life, my family, my church, my spiritual brothers and sisters, and to our beloved True Mother, True Father, and ultimately to our Heavenly Parents.

Thank you, Dr. Yong, for this daily dose of medicine for the heart and therapy to my spirit. 

Thank you very much!

-Raffy Ablong