Jun 10, 2004

National Messiah Mission


I am a veteran lurker on this list, and do not often contribute, but I wanted to say a few things about this mission. Providences come and go in our movement. As True Parents' attention shift to a new phase or level, the focus turns elsewhere, bringing with it the limited resources (people) and finances of our movement. The NM Providence is only one of many examples of this.

While the "glamour" of the NM Providence may have worn off, and some might even characterize it as a "backwater" of the Providence, I choose to look at it from a far more personal perspective. My feeling has always been: Who will love this country if I don't? Who will save this country if I don't? I don't believe that the NM providence can be looked at in any other way except as a deep personal, historical commitment, and one that has to be viewed on a long term basis. At the moment I am not in my NM country (Turkey) due to the usual economic reasons. However, my zeal, my determination and my sense of responsibility to my nation have not waned. In fact, they have certainly deepened in my absence. For me, it is an agony not be be able to be in my country, especially with all the events now taking place in the Middle East. But I know that keeping that burning heart, and a sense of filial piety and duty is a condition in itself to bring God's Blessing to my country.

I cannot fault anyone who is not in their NM country if they maintain that kind of heart. What I cannot understand are those who accepted this mission, but give it little thought or concern. I know of a number of NM's who have never even taken the trouble to visit their country, much less live in it. How can you have a heartistic connection to a country which you have never even visited? I believe that such people should ask to be removed from their mission, or one day face being judged--not by God--but by the people who they had a responsibility to save.