Timeless Words: Anniversary of Las Vegas Unity Festival
It’s hard to believe June 22 marks the second anniversary of the 2019 Peace Starts With Me Unity Festival in Las Vegas—a momentous event held at the MGM Grand Hotel. Mother of Peace Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon gave a powerful keynote address, accompanied by Bishops Noel Jones and Hezekiah Walker and a 500 Voice Choir.
Peace Starts With Me, a global movement launched by Dr. Moon in July 2017, has since touched the lives of tens of millions of people around the world who have committed to peace within themselves, their families, and their communities.
In this vein, people from all backgrounds have participated in the Marriage Blessing, a worldwide interfaith tradition of couples who dedicate or re-dedicate their marriage to a greater purpose and God. The Marriage Blessing offers a path to build a world of stronger marriage and healthier families.
The recent Peace Starts With Me: Peace and Blessing virtual event on June 5 featured Dr. Moon’s fresh call to “reawaken America to the spirit of its founding fathers and embrace heavenly values.” On this anniversary of the Unity Festival, let’s revisit Dr. Moon’s urgent message imploring all people to center on God, our Heavenly Parent, in order to usher in an era of lasting peace.
Speech excerpt:
God, the owner of Heaven, created all things in His image, and He created a man and a woman to be humanity’s ancestors. God gave humanity a period of growth and waited for the moment He would see they had matured, and He’d be able to say, “You have grown in a beautiful way.” However, human beings have been looking out for only themselves. The ambition that they could become like God grew in them. With that ambition today, fallen human beings have emerged that have nothing to do with the Creator, God…
So far, human beings have lived in ignorance generally and in ignorance of God and that condition brought about today’s destruction [of the planet] and hasn’t maintained well the beautiful plan that God originally had for Creation. This has turned to destruction today. Climate change and pollution now afflict this planet. Unimaginable diseases and problems occur because of pollution and it’s a fact that in the future humanity could reach its limit for survival. In other words, humanity’s future is not visible.
What shall we do in that case? We must strive to ensure that Heavenly Parent’s children will stand up and solve all these difficulties and problems so that the eternal Creation will last in the world that the Creator, Heavenly Parent, originally created. We must strive to sustain further the eternal Creation.
I know there are many problems in this country, too. The politicians and the economically powerful should also work out a campaign to serve God, the Creator, our Heavenly Parent. Only through a movement to attend God can human beings and the planet be healed. Won’t the representative democratic Christian country—the United States—take the lead? It’s the only way for them to open wide a future for our beloved second-generation members, our children. Let’s solve the problems together with me, the only begotten daughter, True Mother and with the Blessed families, and of course, with the clergy members and the citizens of this country. Let’s make America beautiful, a beautiful earthly Kingdom of Heaven.
You can read Dr. Moon’s full speech from the 2019 Peace Starts With Me Unity Festival here.
