Thinking of the New Year, 1971

David S. C. Kim
January 1971

The Year of 1970 has passed by as a tremendous victory over Satan's sovereignty by our Great Master and True Parents. This has occurred not only on the national level but also on the international level. This fact has been brought to the attention of the whole world, by the fulfillment of two great historical events; the 777 Sacred Marriage Blessing in Korea which was internationally participated in by couples from more than 10 nations, and the world wide anti-communist conference held in Japan which gathered representatives of 53 nations. Even if you were not one of the actual participants of these 2 events, for some reason or another, you all have a spiritual right to enjoy and a right to feel a sense of great accomplishment, because we belong eternally to our Master and

True Parents who made this success possible. Further these foundations will help you in your Principle work wherever you are. So I want you to share the feeling of success of cur Master and True Parents in the year 1970.

I said, "We belong eternally to Him". This means we are His children and are grafted to Him through the message of the Principles. Since you became a part of the United Faith Family His success is ours; our success is His.

Always at the Christmas and New Year seasons we have to pay special attention to an "Inventory of the Previous Year." Each member of Heavenly Family throughout the world must find out either the success or failure in accomplishing their Heavenly responsibility and assigned mission. You were not always necessarily successful in the previous year, but using intelligence and objective evaluation of the reasons for your failure, will help to promote your Heavenly work in the coming year of 1971. Let us make new zeal and determination to succeed in the coming year so that we will not repeat the same mistakes or fall into the same failures in 1971. Let me give you a 10 point check list for self-evaluation to bring you success in the coming year:

(1) Do you read and study the message of the Principles daily enough to have at least the ability to apply it to your daily life?

(2) Do you pray daily for your mission for family members, for contacts in your area and for our Master and True Parents and for His Mission on earth?

(3) Are you ready to spread our precious message and work to get new family members? If not find out what is wrong with you. It is natural to tell others of your new faith and belief. This is an indication of your growth in spirit.

(4) Are you helping the Principle work in your area through your monetary support? Because our work is centering on young people we do not have those with a financial background to support our movement on the local, national or world-wide level. Since our movement is quite new this financial support is necessary.

(5) Do you feel ashamed of being in our movement and do you take pride in being a member of the Heavenly Family?

(6) How often do you have inter-action or fellowship among family members either through meeting, writing letter, or contribution to the News Bulletin?

(7) Are you well informed about what ours is doing and the work of other groups and countries other than your own? The information will give you great strength and spiritual uplift and bring us closer together as one Heavenly Family.

(8) What kind of individual talents do you have to utilize in this work! Some examples are a writer, teacher, counselor, lecturer, minister, public speaker, organizer, secretary etc.

(9) How do you overcome disappointment and discouragement? The nature of our work is sometimes depressing.

(10) With inter-action among other family members and with the help of prayer this can be overcome. It is not as difficult to overcome our individual disappointments and

(11) Discouragements when you compare them to the hardships and persecutions of the early Korean family.

(12) Do you have the spirit of challenge and an optimistic attitude when you do the Principle work? This is the Secret of success in our work.

I hope and pray that both your inventory of the previous year and the 10 point check list may help your work in the coming year so that you can return Heavenly Joy to our Master and True Parents.