In Jin Moon’s speech at the True Parents Birthday Celebration, held on February 8, 1992 at World Mission center, New York
Good Morning, brothers and sisters; Happy True Parents’ Birthday!
Last night, Heavenly Father sent a beautiful flurry of snowflakes, and as I was driving I saw all those glorious white snowflakes accentuating the darkness of the night. I said, “This is a sign from God that even the creation is celebrating the birth of our True Parents.” I want to talk about the value of our True Parents and the title of my message is “Our Paradigm of True Love.”
Every time I am asked to convey my heart about True Par-ents, I always feel unworthy, because I am young. When I think of True Parents, I realize how much more I have to live a sacrificial life to become like them. When we were witnessed to, we experienced the glorious principle, the word of God and moreover the experience of True Parents. When I talk about True Parents, the first thing that comes to mind is that they were the first perfect man and woman.
For me and my family, the word perfection means the in-ability to fall away from God. They are so true, so absolute in their love of truth, in their love of true love, in their love of Heavenly Father, that no matter what suffering Satan puts in front of them, no matter what obstacles you have in front of you, there is no way that our True Parents would fall away from our Heavenly Father. It is this absolute obedience, this absolute subservience to God, united in true love, that makes our movement, our work, our Principle, our True Parents so glorious.
The symbol of my love
In the early years Father had to go through tremendous suffering to discover the Principle. He says, many times he spent ten to twelve hours on his knees so that when he got up from praying his skin would be hardened by his pressing desire to know God. “That was the symbol of my love,” he said; that was the symbol even though it was painful. The fact that he discovered truth was a sacrificial and a loving gesture on Father’s part and now that truth has been revealed to us.
In them we see the truth, we experience the love of God, and we realize how much we want to become like them; how much we want to be able to love one another, to truly become united with one another, to work together for one purpose only, to liberate God. The thing that is so incredible about our True Parents is that is their whole purpose, every day of their lives from morning to night.
Father gets up before five in the morning and many times when I go to his room, he is sitting cross-legged with his head down and sometimes it looks as if he’s sleeping like that, but he’s very much in thought, thinking about the members, about the world. He is thinking about what kind of men and women he wants us to become. Every time I see Father like that, my head is lowering down, not because he uttered a word, but because his presence is real and I can touch him and feel him and through him I can experience God, through Mother I can experience God, like I’ve never felt before.
Through them I realized, God is not something out there, sitting on His throne, judging us. True Parents have made us see that God is a God of love and that He wants to experience love, He needs His true sons and daughters. When you get blessed with your husband and wife, what do you want the most? You want children and you want to be able to see yourself in those children. In a sense you realize true love between husband and wife but through the children’s eyes you realize the greatness of your love. Your love gave life, and in a sense True Parents’ love gives us all life. It’s absolute love.
How do our True Parents glorify our True Parents in God, our Heavenly Father? How do they do that? They are the first man and woman who truly liberate God from His suffering, who comfort God, who liberate God from His loneliness and allow God to feel the kind of love He has been longing for all these years. It is through a relationship with True Parents that God feels joy.
In that sense Father is going through the formula course to understand the suffering of man. Father is suffering, shed-ding tears, sweat and blood for the sake of mankind; in such a process, he is suffering together with our Heavenly Father. He is liberating our True Parents because Father is making restoration real in the physical world. In my own life of faith God is real just as the True Parents are real.
My inspiration
When you’re living at East Garden and you’ve always known that your parents are Father and Mother (whom you addressed as True Parents, True Father, True Mother), sometimes it is very difficult to see who these two people are that all these people are following. When I was young I asked myself,
“Why do they bow to me? Why do they call me In Jin Nim? What is this Nim? It sounded so heavy. It just wears you down.” I couldn’t understand. Why did they respect and honor True Parents?
When I was going to Columbia University I would bump into Japanese CARP members; sometimes they knew me and sometimes they didn’t. I would pat one on the back and say,
“Hi! What are you selling?” They had little prints, teddy bears with all sorts of goodies, with the balloons, and I would say, “Gee, how beautiful, can I take a look?” “Yes,” the brother would say, “You know, I’m working for this special fundraising project. I am very happy if you give a donation for two or three prints. You can get three for $6, five you get $10, and fifteen you get $20.” I say, “What brings you to this country?” “Yeah! you know God … ” (He doesn’t have a large vocabulary, so he says, “Yeah, God!”), “I believe God, I believe Messiah here and we really have to work hard and you pledge yourself, you give money and we do great things and together, we all happy!” So, I said, “Okay, thank you so much!” Usually, I give double or triple and I say, “Thank you so much for working so hard” and I resume my studies. I could never forget one brother. He was shorter than me, skinnier than me, and he wasn’t so articulate but he conveyed so much heart. He said, “Thank you so much, thank you so much! Oh! central figure be so happy today. Today good result!” then I added, “I am so grateful you are doing this for our True Parents.”
He said, “Oh! True Parents?” “Yes,” I said, ‘Tm so happy you are working for God and True Parents.” “Oh! you know True Parents?” “Yes,” I said, “I know True Parents and I think Rev. and Mrs. Moon are the greatest people on earth.” He thanked me and we said our goodbyes. He moved my heart with his energy, the kind of elation and the kind of eyes with which he was talking about True Parents; that’s the kind of person I want to become.
As I started to mature I realized who True Parents were, and I realized I was the flesh and blood of True Parents’ love. One day I could not stop crying. I repented for the kind of ignorant life that I was leading. I came to realize why members love True Parents so much. I have to honestly say that many times all of you are my inspiration. Many times you were the people that I wanted to be like, that I wanted to be with, to love as a true brother and sister.
You represent hope
That’s when I realized the value of each and every person in this room. All of you were hand-picked by our Heavenly Father to walk this way of life. You are so important and you have to realize that. Because you are the embodiment of God, you are the image of God’s love and as a man and a woman working together, in harmony, in unity, you represent hope. Just the way you were hope to me.
You represent what the future can be; within your hands, you hold the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven, the key to true love. It is within each and every one of us to become perfect, to become the image of a true son or daughter so that we can never, ever fall away from God. It is in such an effort that the world sees and witnesses a new beginning and it is in that effort that we take part in the process of restoration.
Sometimes I ask, “Father, what can I do to make this world a better place?” Father has asked me to study, which is very difficult for me because I like to be out there. I like meeting people. When you’re reading a book day in and day out it becomes very stale. I said to Father, “It is so difficult, how can I find the value of what I’m doing?” Father just looked at me and said, “What do you mean, what you’re doing?” He said, “You are working for God, and all the answers you need to know are within your heart.” He told me to pray about it. To try to reach deep within myself and try to come up with the answers. Father said, “Look, God did most of it for you. He gave you the world, He gave you everything; all you need to do is that little thing called five percent responsibility. That’s the only thing. We need to feel God on a daily basis.” Father said, “Why are you coming to me? Pray to God, find the answers within your heart!”
I went and prayed really hard. I said, “Father, life is so tough for me sometimes.” I said, “How do I satisfy all these demands and yet feel confident in myself that I’m doing the work of God.” I said, “How can I feel worthy? Why am I feeling so much pain, so much anguish and why is it that when I try to reach out to somebody, that person doesn’t understand my heart?”
While I was crying I was made aware of my own vocabulary in praying to Heavenly Father. My words were, “my suffering, my pain, how do I overcome my difficulty.” I’m only twenty-six, but how long did Father, how long did Mother suffer? How long did humanity, my brothers and sisters suffer? I have True Parents; I have the living example but many people didn’t. When I realized this I really repented and I told myself, “In my life I will not only be true in what I do, but will be true in what I say, so that what I say and what I do are one and the same.” True Parents are the first man and the first woman who have truly lived and survived the test of consistency in word and deed.
Consistent with what you do
How do you tell the difference between a false prophet and a true prophet? How do you know what I’m saying is true? How do you know whether you’re being true? There’s the test of consistency. You have to be consistent not only in what you say, but also in what you do. You claim that you’re going to restore the world, you claim that you’re going to live for the sake of our True Parents, you claim that you’re living for the sake of God, but then you’re found in the gutter of Forty-second Street with a prostitute. Has that person passed the test of consistency? No. If I stand here and say, I’m going to do such and such because I am a true daughter, but then you don’t see me doing those things, can I claim that I’m a true daughter? No. What you pledge must be consistent with what you do.
We have made the decision to come to work for God, to work for True Parents, to work for the sake of the world. Why? Because we love our Heavenly Father, because we love our True Parents, because we love the world, and we want to make a better place for our children. You are the one who made that decision. You can walk out any day and go back to your old life. You are here because you want to live a true life centered upon true love.
I know that some of you have been on mobile fundraising teams for such a long time. You wake up early, you develop little sores on your feet knocking at the same doors; day in and day out, having yogurt for breakfast, stopping at a fast food restaurant for dinner. Many times you cannot feel God because you feel so mechanized and you seek a central figure saying, “Help me, give me life.” I think that the life that you are seeking is within yourself, it is within our own heart, and it is partially our responsibility to help our central figures.
They’re working just as hard running together with you. In a sense you have to help out the central figure, and he will do the best that he can for your sake. In that unity you produce result, you produce life, you produce love and ultimately you bring victory to our True Parents. We have the tremendous responsibility to love humankind, to love our brothers and sisters, to love our central figure, to love the world, to love even Satan ultimately.
Father said a long time ago, “I never declared I was perfect; it was Satan who acknowledged my perfection.” It was by looking at Father, by testing Father, by seeing what he’s doing and by seeing the consistency of his words and his deeds that even Satan himself realized this Rev. Moon is a true man, this Mrs. Moon is a true woman, and Satan bowed down.
We need love
That is the kind of True Parents we’re dealing with. They’re not just an image; they’re not just something that’s far away. They’re here with you suffering with you in spirit, working together with you from morning to night. I know that when you’re on MFT and witnessing teams day in and day out, many times it’s so tiring, many times it’s so cold, but I want you to remember that Father, Mother and the True Children are with you. We are really with you, and when you see me, before you see me as In Jin Nim I want you to think of me as your sister. I want you to develop this kind of heartistic connection with True Family because we are people too, just like God, we need love. Just like Heavenly Father; there needs to be a give and take of love and I think that is what we really should strive for in terms of our movement, in terms of New York, in terms of our family.
True Parents are the embodiment of true love. Many times I see the way Father reacts to Mother; I see the way Mother reacts to Father. I see that little twinkle in their eyes when they see each other. I see the way Father loves Mother. Father honors Mother; Father is always praising Mother and Mother is doing the same, constantly praising each other, loving one another. That is the ideal relationship between a man and a woman.
A couple of members came to me saying “Father’s love and Mother’s love.” To me there is True Parents’ love. That should be our vocabulary. The thing that makes our truth so real, is that we have True Parents. They are your parents as well as my parents. For me, when Mother walks into a room, I see Mother and Father, I see True Parents. When I’m standing here it is not In Jin Nim, it is my family you’re looking at.
Don’t carry division
When you’re analyzing either a passage, a poem or a story, the greatest mistake one can make is to forget the holistic view, the main reason why this guy did this. Don’t forget that I’m within our movement, do not go around dividing. Do not say, “I’m an American blessed child; he’s a Korean blessed child; therefore, he’s better than me.” If a Korean blessed child said that to an American blessed child, he has lost the meaning of Father and Mother.
When you see Japanese members coming to this country don’t say, “Here comes another cart full of work horses.” Don’t treat your brothers and sisters like that; they’re coming here to save this country. Maybe they came because I didn’t work hard enough so they had to come to help. There’s so much antagonism between Japan and America. If someone accuses you of being lazy, you should think about it. Why is Japan calling America lazy? If someone has something valid to say, take it in and respond with love, not, “Who are you, you short little black things?” Reflect upon it. Am I really lazy? They work on Saturdays. They don’t have working hours from nine to five.
When someone says, “Oh! You just seem so selfish to me.” Before you react to that statement, think about it. Father says we should turn everything into victory with true love. What does that mean? It means that no matter what Satan puts in front of you, no matter what Satan does to you, you respond with true love. You ask yourself, Why? What can I learn from this? If you do that more and more, maybe the person who called you selfish will come and say, “My dear brother, I called you selfish, but I didn’t mean it,” then you can say, “What you said, it really made me think, so I went to the prayer room and prayed for four hours; I think now I’m a better person. Thank you.”
Can you imagine what kind of relationship that will be come? You can say; “You don’t like me; how can J make my-self better? How can I become a better person for True Parents, for God, humanity and the world?” In that sense, we can rid our church of needless suffering. If you really think about it, most of the suffering is self-inflicted. “He doesn’t understand me,” “He’s blocking my creativity,” “He doesn’t see what kind of potential I have,” “My central figure is just stopping me, so I can’t do anything.” Instead of thinking or talking that way, work together to bring about victory. Let us develop the heart of respecting each other.
Make him your brother
Are you the kind of person who takes a calculator and adds up everything good you did? For in-stance, when you’re really trying to make unity with a person: “I brought him coffee, gave him a massage; I always present myself with a smile, but he still growls at me. Why?” Then you start to get really angry with him.
What did Father teach us to do? Forget about it! Who cares whether he smiles back or not? What matters is whether you are going to make him your true brother. If all of us have that kind of attitude, the Kingdom of Heaven is here!
In the Islamic tradition they have a saying, “All of God’s creation is to glorify the Lord Allah.” Everything we do is a sign, everything that exists is a sign from God, a representation of God. This is one place in the world in which colors don’t matter, religion doesn’t matter, whether you are a man or a woman doesn’t matter; you have equal responsibility to perfect yourself. This is the only place!
When I hear that our brothers and sisters from the Muslim countries are here to listen to the Principle, to learn from our True Parents, I am inspired because the event that Father and history have been prophesying all these years, where all the distinctions will be dissolved in the realm of true love-it’s happening right here and now.
All be one in Christ
I see blessed children sitting down front. For you, True Parents are your true examples; see how they relate to each other in love, in total awe of one another. They love each other so much that Father claims that he cannot sleep without Mother. Mother claims she cannot sleep without Father.
He loves my Mother so much that wherever Mother goes, he is with her, and vice versa; wherever Father goes, Mother is with him. That is the image of love our church presents to the world, it is the love between a man and a woman, that pure chaste love of unselfishness, of sacrifice where positions don’t matter; whether you’re handsome or beautiful it doesn’t matter, whether you have a Ph.D. or are a high school drop-out, it doesn’t matter. In the realm of love these things don’t matter.
St. Paul wrote in Galatians 3:28, “Neither Jew nor Greek, neither male or female; for you are all one in Christ.” that verse is being fulfilled, right now. Here we have transcended all social distinctions, all racial distinctions, all political and economic distinctions, to a new realm of true love. In True Parents we have the liberation of God, of humanity, of man’s heartaches, women’s heart-aches. All become dissolved and made one in the realm of love.
If you have a wife, she’s really working hard, she loves you-honor her, praise her and glorify her; your wife will weep in inspiration and treat you like the king of kings. If you have a husband, love him, follow him and make him a proud son and a father of your children and in that sense you yourself will be even greater, and that man will honor you as his wife.
When I hear stories about some members hitting their wives I get really upset. Your wife is the embodiment of holiness; your husband is the embodiment of holiness. You cannot treat her as your property. You have to love her; you have to honor her; you have to make her into a true woman. Likewise, I’ve heard stories about a lot of wives giving hard times to their husbands saying “That brother is a lawyer making money; what are you doing? Bring home some bread!” and complaining like that. Let me ask you sisters, would you rather have Donald Trump as your husband with all his money and all his glitter who cheats on his wife, or would you rather have a true, righteous man, even if he were a beggar? You would have a true man, right?
When you practice true love, infidelity goes away, promiscuity goes away. Devotion to one spouse, devotion to one family replaces those evils. That’s the blessing that Heavenly Father wants us to experience. How can you destroy the very person through which you will become perfect? How can you destroy your other half? That’s like cutting your body in half.
Let’s say the right hand is the subject and the left hand is the object. Does it make sense to try to see which one is higher, which one is lower? Maybe some of you want two right hands since the subject is so much better. Okay, take two right hands, take your two right legs, where are you going to go? You’ll be a pogo stick, jumping in your own space. I want you to utilize everything that God gave you; use your right hand, use your left hand, in unity. Please respect each other, love each other; treat your husband or wife like they are the source through which you will become whole.
You are our future
That’s why you blessed children have to realize what an important role you play. As the second generation you are the future and the hope of our movement. Whatever you do will be a textbook to which future generations will look and follow.
I know when you are in your teenage years, many of you are faced with drugs, sex, drinking, what’s cool, what’s popular. In the teenage years, what’s the most important thing? Popularity! Whether I’m recognized by the other sex, to be hot stuff, right? Somehow God is secondary, sometimes even True Parents. You have to realize that each and every one of you … what’s your name? Shi Hon, you are the representation of True Parents. Now you say it, “I am the representation of True Parents.” Wherever you go, people will see True Parents.
If the teacher is lecturing and you’re picking your nose he will say, “Oh, did Rev. Moon teach him to do that? Did Mrs. Moon teach him to do that?” You have to remember that you are representing True Parents, so you have to dress nice. I know that the fashion today is rapper fever, right? They dress with strange hats and they look like they’re going to mug you, but the funny thing is that they take the microphone and start rap-ping. I know that’s the fad and I know that many of you want to rap to the beat, go to school dances, have boyfriends, all these things. The most important thing you have to remember as blessed children is that you are representing True Parents.
If you become a prime minister in the future, then people will say, “Oh! she was born on such and such date; she’s a blessed child; she’s pure; she’s a number one student, excellent in everything. She deserves to be prime minister.” That’s the kind of record I want to see. When they see that, they’re going to say, “Ah! no wonder, she is a blessed child. She is a child of True Parents. No wonder she’s so beautiful; it’s because she has true love. Now it makes sense.” When they see you, they experience the things that you’re doing. You really have to pray a lot, you have to think about how you can contribute to your other brothers and sisters, to this movement, how you can give, always constantly giving, not thinking about receiving all the time.
“A-1” and “three no-no’s”
I know that a lot of you are in school. The number one thing, until you receive a formal direction from Father, is to do your best wherever you are. If you’re in high school, be the best athlete, be the best debater, be the best student. If other people can do it, you can do it. You have the power of true love be-hind you, you have the whole spirit world working for you, praying for you, urging you on. We can have a great heart, but if you don’t actualize it, it just means nothing. Father doesn’t have enough capable people to do the things that he wants them to do. What does the second generation have to do? You have to be the best in whatever you’re doing so that when people look at you, they say, “Oh! Mrs. Jones, that ballerina, Victoria, she’s a Unificationist, that’s why she’s so smart. She’s an A-1 student.” That’s the kind of thing I want to hear the outside world say about our future leaders. You have to be acknowledged by Satan himself.
The perfect example that you have to think about is Father at Danbury. Danbury is a prison, the lowest place that a person can go in society. What did Father do in Danbury? He received the award for a model prisoner. He was the A-1 prisoner. If you get an A-1 certificate of merit from your school, that’s doing the best you can be doing in that situation. I don’t want you to neglect your studies for your faith; you have to do them together. You have to grow spiritually, physically, intellectually; you have to develop capabilities so you can do the things that Father wants you to do in the future-to do all the things that we could not do now because of lack of professionalism in a certain area. You are the future leaders of our movement.
Next time if I get a chance, Shi Hon, I would like to see your report card, Okay? [Note: Shi Hon did show In Jin Nim her report card at the next birthday and In Jin Nim was mostly pleased.] If anyone gets a D or an F, you should be ashamed. Can you get a C? No. Can you get a B, second to the best? No. What you want is an A. From now on you are in the A-F scale. Everything below an A is an F in your mind, okay? I want you to be the best student.
Nowadays if you drink you’re not hip, if you smoke you’re not hip. Times are changing. It’s better; take advantage of that. Heavenly Father is working, Heung Jin Nim is working up in spirit world and our True Parents are here working together. So you really have no excuses, right Shi Hon?
What are the three no-no’s that we talked about before? The three no’s for the blessed children are: NO SMOKING, NO DRINKING AND NO MALE AND FEMALE PROBLEMS. When your friend Ann says, “How come you don’t go out? You don’t realize how much fun you can have at the prom.” You say, “You see Ann, you may have all those things, but I have something you don’t have. I have true love. For me true love is so satisfying that I don’t need drugs. I don’t need alcohol, I don’t need boyfriends. I’m fine as I am. Also, I am already pledged to my future husband.”
Why are you sighing? I know Father believes that somewhere on earth your spouse was born for you, maybe in Africa. Your pledged husband is waiting for you. Twenty years down the line if he finds out that you smoked and you drank and that you gave your first kiss to some boy who just stole it, took the first kiss away from you, what’s your husband going to say? He’s going to feel sad because that first touch, that first kiss, that first embrace is the most crucial. That cannot be replaced. Once it’s lost, it’s gone forever! That’s why you really have to think that you’re already engaged. You can say,
“Heavenly Father had a spouse prepared for me ever since I was born.” In the teenage world nothing is consistent and if you stand as a rock, your friends will come to respect you. Then your friends will say, “Gee, that Christina, she was weird at first, but I’ve come to realize that she really believes in something; I don’t believe in anything.”
You have to be prepared and show what you really believe in. I used to tell everyone I met that I was already engaged. “Show me his picture,” they would say; I said, “I don’t know him, but I’m engaged.” Just like me, you have to believe that somewhere there might be a little fish-eye waiting for you. Now I know he was in McLean, Virginia. What? Fisheye is not a derogative name. You know, Father loves fish. Fish is very important-human beings cannot live without fish and it’s wonderful that my husband just happens to look like one. I have no problem with that. Maybe at the beginning he used to smell a little bit more like fish, so he was difficult to get my hands on, but that’s okay. With my true-love eye vision he is the most handsome, kind fish I have ever met. Furthermore, I love him more for it, okay? It’s okay, you don’t have to worry about my husband’s ego; we have this understanding and we have this true love.
Important blessing
I will give you a little testimony about my blessing, because I want you to realize, especially the blessed children, how important the blessing is.
When Father chose that husband for me, it was hell. I couldn’t imagine another day of sunlight. I couldn’t imagine myself going on any longer. However, over the years I have come to realize Father’s wisdom in choosing such a husband for me. I am not such a difficult person to live with and I’m not perfect either, so we are growing together and together we become more unified.
When you’re growing, suffering and receiving a lot of persecution in school, I know it can be so tough for you blessed children. However, think about your older brothers and sisters. Think of Ye Jin Nim, how difficult it must have been to marry someone younger than her. For some women that’s an issue. Think how difficult it must have been for Hyo Jin Oppa, to marry someone whom he didn’t even know; she’s like his kid sister. And myself who felt that I married a dead fish. It wasn’t easy for Hyo Jin Nim all the way to Kook Jin Nim, in fact we have nicknames for everyone within the family (which I will refrain from speaking in public). One thing as blessed children: you have to follow in absolute obedience, no matter how ugly your husband is, no matter if he’s shorter than you, less educated than you, or has less faith in True Parents than you. Ultimately, you are the key that will make him whole.
If he’s less faithful, make him more faithful; if he’s ugly, dress him up so he looks decent. If a woman doesn’t smell so nice, you buy her perfume and tell her, “Oh! you’re so beautiful, but just brush your hair this way. Oh! you’re going to be a true beauty.” If you approach it that way, your wife is going to say, “For the sake of my husband I’ll do it,” Or the husband, “For the sake of my wife I’ll do it.” That’s the kind of loving relationship I would like to see in all of you, in blessed children, especially the younger ones here. You have to promise me that you will keep your three no-no’s, okay?
What is your name? You look like you’re going to be a future athlete. You have to be pure minded, always remind yourself when you get up in the morning; “It’s another day, but I’m going to tackle it with true love. I’m just going to love this world up so that they will realize the value of true love. I’m going to glorify God.” That’s the kind of thinking that I want all of you to develop.
Living examples of true love
Today is True Parents’ birthday. Our True Parents are the paradigm of true love, they are the living examples of true love. Because we have Divine Principle, we know what we have to do and we have True Parents showing us how to do it-how to become that true son, that true daughter of our Heavenly Father. All of you here in this room are so important for the dispensation. Don’t feel like you’re lost in a crowd; Father has his eyes on each and everyone here, like the way I can see you now. He knows what you’re doing. All can be seen and I am just standing a couple of feet above you. How much more God can see, way up in the sky, all around us, our ubiquitous Lord.
On this day when we celebrate we have to remember what True Parents are: that they are the first perfected man and woman; the ones who practice a consistency of truth and deed, the champions of true love, the ones who glorify our Lord by truly liberating Him. Those are the words we have to think about every morning.
Let’s dedicate this day to True Parents and let’s work hard together with our True Parents. In that way we have a common denominator. We are all one in the Lord, one in our True Parents. We are one family, brothers and sisters that make up a true world. Do you understand?
Those who pledge to dedicate themselves with a true heartistic connection to True Parents through their daily efforts of prayer and hard work, please raise your hand. Thank you very much.