Rev. In Jin Moon's Lovin' Life Ministries Sermon, Dec. 5, 2010 Good morning, brothers and sisters. How is everyone? It’s been a while since I’ve seen you. We spent a lovely Thanksgiving weekend with our True Parents in Las Vegas, and we got to meet our West Coast members once again. Our True Father gave his heart in addressing those who attended the World Assembly 2010. Father’s heart as the True Parent of humankind is to invest in his children, his eternal sons and daughters, so they can truly become great men and women of God. I’m realizing this as Father visits us more and more often, especially in Las Vegas. I told the congregation there that I’ve often wondered, why Las Vegas? Of course Father wants to turn Sin City into a shining city on a hill by injecting a little bit of heaven. But people come to Las Vegas to win the jackpot, to experience their luck. It seems that our True Parents keep calling us to Las Vegas to remind us that we are all jackpot winners. We are, indeed, are we not? We have our True Parents with us, and, knowing that they want America and our American movement to be great, they want our American sons and daughters to be outstanding people who can usher in a new millennium. They are here at this time together with us, sharing the breaking news. They are encouraging all of us around the world to think of ourselves as belonging to one family and to come into this family of God through being blessed to somebody who’s from a different background, race, or religion. They are therefore encouraging all of us to respect where we come from but at the same time to learn how to live and love together as a family. This has been the most important message our True Parents have brought to the world. To be experiencing it at this time is an incredible thing. When we were getting ready for Sunday Service, the band had to rehearse; after rehearsal I bumped into Dave Hunter and his beautiful wife Mitsuru with their new baby, “Little Dave.” This is the first time I had a chance to meet Little Dave up close and personal. I had a chance to hold him. At Loving’ Life we’re terribly proud of Little Dave because we heard Mitsuru would be expecting while she was working for Lovin’ Life Ministries. To have the baby come and to be able to celebrate him as part of our worldwide family are beautiful things. And it continues as we see Mitsuru now as a wonderful mom, taking Little Dave along with her everywhere she goes. He’s such a bright spirit, and so cute. I thought Dave and Mitsuru weren’t back with us yet. But they are, and it’s a definite improvement. Little Dave is so engaging. He has just started eating cereal and solid food. He’s goo-gooing and talking his own language that we don’t understand, but communicating nonetheless. He kept making eye contact with me. Chris Alan was seated on my left, and the baby was sitting on the other side, looking at all of us. He would stop and look at me and give me a big smile, and then look at Chris Alan and others and then come back and give me another big smile. Chris turned to me and said, “I think he found somebody he likes.” Babies respond to women and, I think, to a woman’s voice because it’s very close to what they’re used to hearing from their mom’s voice. Little Dave was a bundle of delight and so much energy. I held him facing his parents, but because he could hear my voice from the back, he kept on bending backward. Chris Alan was laughing because it looked like Little Dave was doing a backward dive into my bosom. That’s what they’re used to, right? They want nourishment and comfort and to feel loved. When I was thinking about Little Dave and what a treasure he is, as well as all the other blessed children in our midst and all the new members being born into Lovin’ Life Ministries, I was thinking to myself, what kind of a generation is he going to be part of? I wanted to share this You-Tube clip this morning because it poignantly expresses something very important for all of us to think about as human beings. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKzxV0QLhRo] It starts out, “We are a lost generation,” and it conveys a whole litany of things that we’re not going to be or do. It’s a pessimistic look at how possibly a young person going through difficult times might be looking at his or her world. “I’m a part of this lost generation, of this generation that’s going to put work before my family, is not going to understand the value of my children, and is going to factor in my divorce even before I get married.” All of these things are so depressing. I’ve often said that when I hear that a child is lost, to my ears it means that child is lonely, an orphan seeking some understanding or truth. Many times young people feel lost when they cannot find their center, or core, or an understanding, or their relationship with God. But the video clip is a litany of all the t

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