I Am The Church...

Maria Dolor Barbosa das Graças
November 25, 2010

Inside and outside our church, there's something wrong but this won't waver my faith and my center who are our True Parents. There's only one God, one True Parents and one direction and this is very clear. So I want to focus to what God wants me to do as I am doing my home group meetings with other 3 or 4 blessed families giving each other strength and motivation to give life to others because we are having life within.

The proclamation rallies and home group meetings I have experienced have given me a spiritual lift in my faith and love towards God, True Parents and towards my brothers and sisters. These experiences are reminding me of my early days in the church, where I was doing the street witnessing, fundraising, the formula course in my life of faith. Through all those experiences I can experience tremendously the living God working in my life, strengthening my faith. Through those experiences I found the essence of being a true Unificationist because those experiences made me a better person and less arrogant.

I worked outside because I am not depending on the church. Always in my mind and heart is the concept of what I can give to the church and not what the church can give to me. After all I am the church, I am the temple of God.

But I realized, I couldn't let this kind of atmosphere to destroy myself as a temple of God, that's why I looked for remedy for my dry spiritual self, and the home group, the proclamation rallies and proclamation meetings have given me the answer. I found once again the essence of me being a follower of the True Parents. I am having life to give life to others, that's why my guests are coming, are continuously studying the Divine Principle and they love to come to our meetings, they love to be in our home group meetings because they can feel the warmth of love coming from God.

Please understand that this is my personal experience and each one has his/her own personal experiences, too, to share how God is working alive in one's life, but what I truly realized is that it doesn't matter what work we are doing as long as it is connected to the center, to our True Parents. Then it can be a great offering to God. I have experienced that even when I was washing dishes or cleaning the house, I was feeling that what I was doing had meaning. I felt so much how God was happy no matter how simple the works were. I plugged my energy to the true source, that's why I can feel heaven's energy flowing in my veins and feel God so alive!

It's not the big size of what we are doing that matters to God but it's truly the true heart in it that greatly matters no matter how simple the work is, as long as it's all connected to the true source, our True Parents of mankind, the precious Messiah living on earth!

From my heart, I share this...