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3. The Nutrient of Life

You shouldn’t forget that while you were a fetus, you not only received nutrients from your mother, you also received love from her. Similarly, while you live on earth, you not only receive physical nutrients from nature, you also receive love from God. Love is an essential nutrient for life. (Blessed Family-1062, 04/24/1984)

Just as plants absorb sunlight as an element of life, people take in love is an element of life. Our dearest wish is to live eternally in circumstances where we can love and be loved. This is the hope of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth and the Kingdom of Heaven in heaven. (Blessed Family-1062, 03/20/1986)

The paths that men and women walk are for the sake of love. We each have a path to travel, and it is a path of love.
We travel this life to obtain love, to keep love, and to create an environment of love. A woman puts on cosmetics or gets a massage for the sake of love. Our wants and our work are all for the sake of love. We willingly endure hardships and press forward in order to obtain precious love.
(Blessed Family-1066, 04/26/1982)

From the moment we are born, we receive parental love. As long as our parents are alive, they will love us at each stage of our lives, through childhood, young adulthood and middle age. Having received parental love as we grow up, in time the horizontal love of husband and wife is bound to blossom within each of us. (Blessed Family-1062, 04/16/1973)

What is marriage? It is like a school where men learn things they did not know about women and women learn things they did not know about men. When all the grades are A’s, then the husband and the wife will be happy. Raising sons and daughters is like going to another school, this time to learn about loving the world. Your children are your connection to the future. They are given to you to provide you with lessons about how to relate to the future world.
Acts of filial piety toward your grandfather and grandmother, or to your ancestors, have the purpose of enabling you to be educated by the spirit world. All your ancestors are connected to you through love. Love is the central line that links grandfather and grandmother, husband and wife, and sons and daughters.
As blood circulates through the human body, these links enable your ancestors in the spirit world going back even ten thousand generations to circulate up and down and communicate with you, their distant descendent. The spirit world, like the universe as a whole, is organized according to connections of love. Everything submits to the order of love. This is why people say that becoming a servant of true love and a slave of true love is the greatest happiness.
(Blessed Family-1062, 10/14/1985)