Heaven's Challenge(s)! -- Part One

Catherine Cissé
July 2, 2011

Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han, May 1, 2011

I was not in Camberg, 1980, only was shared of In Jin Nim's alarming the members, there.

But years later, those words rang nonstop to my ears, challenged in building my blessed marriage and blessed life altogether...

I moved to Mali, West-Africa, because my husband is a native, there...

I moved there, because Father always requires that wives move to their spouse's country...

I moved there, because I love True Parents, and desire to return love to Them...

I moved there, to act out my faith in Divine Principle and in God...

I moved there, with no title, special mission, or position...

I moved there, with no more love, or praise, for doing it...

I moved there, just to love and be loved...

I moved there, simply believing in Cheong Il Guk yet to come...

But to be plunged into an entirely stranger cultural environment from the one I came from soon revealed God and True Parents challenge(s) with us!...

The genuine enthusiasm (from the Greece: en theos, in God) that inspired the asking God what was "my" mission (to let the natives know that they are loved) nourished me all along, appeasing the revelation.

"Unmistakably", I began to seek for what is not about them that needs to be fixed!

And I soon, "unmistakably" began to seek for what is not about me that needs to be fixed!

Because "they" mirrored my doing: living Divine Principle, blessed life and marriage according my former cultural environment. Stemming from a providential nation, I didn't even thought of cleansing and emptying my being from its habits, to be able to start from scratch the learning of Heaven.

I didn't know be made at the image of God, and where She dwells: inside of me, from where She guides no matter when, no matter where. and didn't know Self: its goods... its weaks... its lacks... its God's planted dreams...; was all but a correct interpreter of Divine Principle, rich with 'how to' true love, true teach, true do, true anything...

And had no idea of the doing of a true love object partner to spouse...

So, I ended up doing for my husband -- instead of sharing the chore -- that part of family chores: finances, and I am the only one responsible for the sacrifices to not be able be with him, and to not have been able seen our daughter becoming a young adult, for 10 years, because I had not the tools shouldering him to challenge that area. One cannot ask another to do what he/she cannot do!...

Heaven had to bear that much, until I had to admit, and tell God: "I don't know anymore!" to be liberated and freed, and give me a hand with Life Coaching, or more precisely: Principled Coaching!..