Testimony

Yasuhumi Takigawa
July 8, 2011

Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han, May 7, 2011

I joined our church in 1976, almost 35 years ago but, for many years afterwards I did not read the Divine Principle.

The main reason is that I thought I knew already the Divine Principle (Principles of Creation, Fall of Man, Parallels of history etc) and didn't feel the need to read it again.

This year, beginning of April, my wife asked me if I would accept to do a Divine Principle reading condition together with her, for the sake of our children's faith to improve. The condition was to read the whole volume of Divine Principle in 40 days. It meant (for the Divine Principle book in Japanese) about 15 pages a day to be read. My wife was reading 10 pages a day in English.

When I started to read the Divine Principle, it looked to me like a completely new book. I really felt that God, our Heavenly Father, is alive and that the value of True Father and True Parents is so incredible!

Usually, a spiritual condition is somehow heavy to do but, actually, every day I was looking forward to reading the Divine Principle because, each time I was reading, I found something new and I felt joy and I gained power.

I think it is because I came to discover that, due to the progress of God's Providence, many things written in the Divine Principle have been realized already(For example, the fall of communism, the declaration of True Parents as True Parents of Heaven and earth and humankind and the Coronation of God's kingship).

Another factor which made me perceive the Divine Principle more deeply is that when I joined I was single, but now I am blessed and have 4 children and also 1 grandchild. So I, myself, have become different (hopefully in a good sense) compared to 35 years ago. Actually, I have not been good at making conditions by myself. But this time, without being told to do, I started a second 40 day condition and now I am in the 3rd course. I also started to read the Bible, both the Old testament and the New Testament. These days, at our morning Hoon Deok Hae, reading True Father's autobiography, I often cry. I believe it is because my spirit has become purified through the reading of the Divine Principle. Now, I can say honestly that I cannot live without reading, daily, the Divine Principle. For this spiritual resurrection, I want to offer my thanks to Heavenly Father, True Parents and my wife Colette.

Yasuhumi Takigawa
July 8th, 2011