Just chewing the cud, thinking some thoughts. I'm far away from the USA and Korea, but from where I'm standing this whole thing is starting to look like a movie of the fall - this time in reverse. Been thinking about it today. Thought I'd put it out there to see if this resonates with anyone?
What got lost at the fall? Adam: Eve. the Archangel, the three sons, the position of True Parents and God's ideal.
So what needs restoring? All of these positions. We believe True Father restored the position of Adam, and that together TF and TM restored the ideal of True Parents. But for God's ideal to come about all the positions need restoring. And is this what we are seeing happen right in front of our eyes - in the muddle we see before us?
Well I absolutely see the need for three Godly, united sons who are faithful to their father's vision and united with their wives. We saw this desire of God not only in Adam's family but Noah's too. So they are being called to honor their father's vision, to honor and remember their parents in their relationship in their position as True Parents, to love their wives with a Godly love, and to unite wholeheartedly for the sake of God's will. Some work still needs to be done here.
But the same applies to TM. In her interaction with TF she restored the position of TP's but I sense that Eve was never fully restored in her. Whilst thinking, I have found it amazing that TF chose a bride who had little connection to her father and also no connection to her grandfather as far as we know. See also had little contact with boys as she grew up. In other words, her bonds of attachment to the masculine side of life were seriously under developed, and probably even traumatized. What is a male? How do I love a male? And maybe even, as she grew as a child, as a backlash to the painful lack of love and support from her missing father 'I don't need a male. Men suck. I can manage alone.' In other words, if she was to restore the position of Eve she was going to have to start from ground zero. What a place to start from. Help. From such a position, as she grew and developed, she would lay foundation and blaze a pathway for the restoration of all women who struggled to find the inner resources to love a man, to love Adam. And my guess is that, although she has learnt and grown so very much, she still hasn't healed her bonding trauma with her father. Thus she may still have hurt daughter sentences running through her brain. 'I don't need my husband' and 'I can do this alone'. In other words she needs healing - and this is what this time right now is for... time for her to come face to face with her painful loss as a child, to heal her relationship with the masculine in her husband and her sons, and replace Satan's sentences with more holistic ones.
Then there is the archangel. Is this the position of those 'helpers' who surround TM. I think many of us sense that all is not so innocent there. So when is the archangel restored? When Eve tells them she loves her sons more than she loves them? When they tell her to love her sons and their wives - and she invites them home as a family, just as a family, as a family who enjoy each other? When she places her sons between her and them? When will the position of the heavenly AA be restored. Is this the advisers' battle - to place themselves in their proper position or is it TM's job to put them in their proper position.
So is what we see - something people seem to want to take sides on - actually a continuation of the course to lay the foundation for the restoration of the whole of Adam's family in the garden of Eden? We all see that only the True Family can restore all these broken positions - we can't do this, only they can. And if they are the True Family, then they, each one of them, and only they, has some part to play in this reversal of the fallen original family.
If these ponderings are anyway truthful, then the last thing we need to be doing is siding with one side or another. Each of them has an incredible path to travel - a path they never actually asked to tread - a path they inherited from their relationship with TF. And all we can do is wish them all God's speed on their individual journeys, and celebrate each small victory each one of them has. Would you like their role? None of us would. It is hard and Satan is out to destroy at every turn.
So how can we hold a sense of detachment from their individual courses, honoring and respecting their courses as theirs? How can we see them all as part of system that needs to heal? How can we not take sides? And how can we stay united, recognizing that trauma and healing is still needed in all the positions. Can we recognize that some find it hard to stay by the side of TM as she battles with her traumas,? And that some find it hard to understand the course that the sons are going through? The sons can't do TM's work for her, but they can do theirs. Put simply, how can we let them do their work, and we do ours.
I know it's messy. The fall was messy. Human history is extremely messy. Can we expect the restoration of the TF to be any less so? But if this analysis is in any way true, it allows us invite people into our movement and say "Sorry it's messy, but that is the course that only the True family can go. Now how can we help you fulfill the three blessings?"
And how can we make our posts here more respectful? I know. It is painful watching what is happening. But let us grow in maturity and honor their desire to stay the course at least. Don't you think TM could just go off and lay on beach somewhere? The same with the sons? They are all hanging in there and this is the only way that they can one day understand what needs to heal and grow.
(FB post by Steve Stacey)
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