The Words of the Guignard Family

God's Day 2005

Rafael Guignard
January 2005

After the 2nd condition Kyung told us to keep the standard during the ws and this time I was more prepared. The two last days of FR my internal goal was to set an example and I just decided to keep this goal for the whole ws.

So finally with the foundation I made during the 2nd condition, I really had a good ws. Everyday I was trying as much as possible to serve and to live for the sake of others. Everyday I also wanted to make God happy and to offer him a special day. That gave me a lot of motivation and also made me very joyful. I kept on working on my fallen natures and that helped a lot in my relationships with my brothers and sisters.

I really never enjoyed a ws so much. It was not about the content but more about the transformation that I made. To get along with everybody and being closer to God is so joyful. I really enjoyed each single day because by keeping focus I could learn and experience many things each day, and the next day when I wake up I was already another person.

All the things that I was trying to do before, I could finally just do them. I was transforming myself so much that I couldn’t even follow my transformation anymore and sometimes I couldn’t even relate anymore to the person I was before. I was asking myself how I could have been like that.

The midnight prayer was a really nice experience for me because it was the first time that I really sincerely passed the year with God and I made really serious resolutions.

God’s Day was really nice with all the presentations form different teams or individuals. But I was a bit disappointed that there were not many people from the German Family. But it was still a really nice God’s Day all together as a big family. The next really nice experience was the Challenge Day in Camberg. It was not as challenging as the Challenge days in the kick-off ws of course, but it needed much more teamwork and team unity. I love sports so my best experiences were the push-ups, the volleyball and the running. In the push-ups we were only three because of some circumstances but still we could do one of the best results and much better than many other teams with more people. What was the best is that each one of us pushed himself to his limits by encouraging each other. In the running I was really impressed by the investment of each member, too. Everybody ran faster than I expected and finally we won. But the best experience was really the volleyball. Before we played the record of passes was 290 which is quite good and hard to beat. At the beginning we didn’t do better than 30 or 40. Once we did 90 and we were quite happy. But we were still far away from the record. It was hard to believe in it but we did and the next times was amazing. We did 100, 200 and finally beat the record of 290. But we didn’t stop to really challenge our limitations. Finally we reached 1000!!! Some of the team wanted to stop because they found it boring but some others wanted to keep on going to push our limitations. They all started to discuss. At this moment I remembered one thing that Kyung was always emphasizing – unity! So I just said to everybody to unite and continue because you can’t just stop the challenge on purpose. Finally we did 1750 passes. That was amazing. We were so happy. It was a really nice challenge day.

The next day we had many nice lectures about True Parents and the one that hit me the most was about the 2 churches in the position of John the Baptist. I was at the same time so impressed by the great faith that the prepared people had and I was sad about the failure because of small mistakes. When I was comparing myself and all the members of the Unification Church today to these people I felt so ashamed in front of God and True Parents. That lecture really shocked me and most of the 1st years in the lecture hall. After the lecture Patricia and Young-Il gave really deep representative prayers. Patricia couldn’t stop crying and many others in the hall started to cry.

During these days I was reflecting a lot about going to the Blessing of course. My answer turned to be more and more negative. I decided to say no but at the last minute I changed my mind and decided to go. This was on the last day of the ws.

I was really happy about this ws, especially that I finished by making the right decision to go to the Blessing.

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