Hey guys

We just finished a week of meetings between Japan-Korea-America Service for Peace Representatives. 

I figured out a way to do a conference call between us - so I'll set that up sometime this week. 

We should be building up on living for the greater good - AIMS...  M.

A - Alignment... Thinking about the GREATER goals... practicing thinking about the purpose of the bigger whole in any situation... beyond myself.  Why am I in school... What do I do this and that for.. and practice focusing on that bigger goal.  That is the skill you need to continually keep aligned to the Will of God.

I - Investment... Investment in others... investment in something because of LOVE.  See their value, feel their value and invest because you want them to grow...

And now..

M - Multiplies Value. 

Not just Create value - MULTIPLY value.  Everywhere you go - ask yourself are you creating value.  In every situation ask not can you point out problems, do you see what is and isn't working, can you analyze the sitution BUT ask - what can I do, what role isn't being done that I can fill, how can I add value in this situation. 

Every situation everywhere you go - leave the plus. 

Simple concept but this is step one.

Once you can keep yourself focused on always creating value - the next step is to see how you can create value on many levels all at once.  Create value for many people with one project that pulls them together.  See how you can change the lives of people in one setting. 

The value really begins to multiply.

True Father has been the master of this.  He will set one condition but fill several indemnity conditions or conditions simultaneously through the same thing. 

Anyway -

Let's begin with just the first step for now.

Everywhere you go, everything you do - ask yourself what can you do to leave the plus.  Ask yourself are you creating value in the situation?

K...

With t-luv

Akiko onni/nuna

This morning during HDH we read a passage... The path of the heart is that of sacrifice.  If you seek to be seen, to receive praise you will be crippled.  Why?  Because the heart seeks the path of the cross. 

I was talking to the kids over here about this passage...  In our everyday lives do we just follow our emotions and act?  Do we live a life centered on ourselves or are we constantly thinking about others and asking ourselves - how am I investing in them and their growth?  Am I thinking more of others than myself, others more than my family?

Investment - the other day - I talked that first and foremost is motivation.  How to love people and invest because we love them and we want only the best for them.  Pretty cliche and sounds like a phrase so cliche I would hear and laugh at... but when it comes down to it - the world mocks it because the world mocks God.  This is God - True Love, wanting only what's best.

And everyday - everywhere - to anyone - surrounded by any environment - we should be able to look upon human beings and ask - investment... am I investing in them - how am I helping them grow.  Am I putting aside my desires, my feelings and working centering on my heart, God's heart and investing in them?

This goes hand in hand with the first INVESTMENT piece I put up.  Investment - first finding God in everyone... More than finding the God in everyone is learning how - not just being able to do it once or seeing a person as God - but learning HOW, LEARNING how you can make yourself see everyone through God's lens and LEARNING HOW to have love for anyone, anywhere, anytime...

And once you seek that love, find that love, experience that love, the next level is to learn how to feel that towards others. 

THEN you begin the investment - constantly finding ways to help the other person learn, grow, experience, reflect and come closer to God and resemble God step by step.

You guys are the only link for many people around you to God, TP, True Family, DP...  but more down to earth - you guys are probably the only ones who will invest to raise them to be like God... in other words teach them how to think beyond themselves to others, Serve others, more than preaching God, TP, DP first - the first step is being like God and making them experience the God in them first... not preaching but first helping them relate.  You guys many times are the only link for people to learn to live for the sake of others, think for the sake of others, etc...

And Thus HJN's vision for SERVICE FOR PEACE - not a humanitarian or charity group that just gives or donates money... NOT that.  NOT a group that only serves.  We are a group that raises peacemakers - we get people to serve with us so they transform through the experience of putting others, bigger things before the self.  We are not a group that simply serves, we raise people who see conflicts, issues, family breakdown, violence and sees service as the solution and seeks to penetrate communities, bring them together in harmony and in peace to create a plan together to use service to end the reality

Anyhow - we need you guys to come up soon.  But we need you to come up internally strong.

I want to take a moment to think about what AIMS is for - the first core value was living for the? 

Living for the greater good.  Not just living for the sake of others - but living for others for the greater good.  Keeping your mind on the bigger goods around you.  If you're tempted to do something like let's say sleep in for hours and hours - think about your greater goals, what am I supposed to do today?  what am I supposed to push myself to do so I can prepare myself to become a leader?  etc...

Basically what is the greater purposes surrounding me and how do I put my mind set towards focusing on THAT INSTEAD OF MYSELF and goals pointing to me. 

Greater goals meaning anything one step beyond yourself - others, the school, family, community...  what can you offer or build

This is what we are studying AIMS for -

A --> HOW to think about greater goals and focus all actions towards that ALIGNMENT

I --> Invest - Of course it means invest yourself 100% but into what and for what purpose... INTO OTHERS for the GREATER GOOD (so you have to find those bigger purposes connected ultimately to God's dream)

Anyway - That's the battle we are fighting.  Look around, watch and listen and you can see how everything is right now surround the ME - oh look at my nails, my face, my body, I did good, I'm this and that or complaining that so and so didn't do this for me or the way I wanted it...  And we are trying to get them step by step think of something bigger than themselves..  Get them to think about, talk about, and even do programs for greater good... Get them to talk about things like family the community America or the world. 

You guys are around people and probably talk alot and have many firends - Getting them to think bigger... That's what we have to shoot for.

With t-luv

Akiko

Hey everyone...

I was busy struggling with trying to find a better way to keep us in touch and continuously...  consistently like every week or something...  hmm

But it's better to keep something up than nothing so I'll keep writing in Xanga until I get some revelation or one of you do...

Recently HJN has said Now that 2nd Gen are beginning to step up and come into alignment, Satan is trying to do everything he can to make sure this doesn't happen.  And Father just yesterday also said we are in a critical turning point, and 2nd Gen must be careful, especially with car accidents.

We have been talking about alignment alot... Alignment to a vision.  I don't know if you all try the exercises I'm trying to have to try out... of course I don't have a reflection process either so I can't check and talk through things

The next in AIMS - is I - Investment.

Investment in others

What is supposed to be the motivation?  Nothing but love really - just because you love them.  What's important is each of you need to begin to find the process for how you can come to love people.  Not do things because we HAVE to, not do things because we are SUPPOSED to, not do things because it is the RIGHT THING TO DO or it'll make SO AND SO HAPPY... but because we want to.  That's when investment begins. 

But that real motivation comes from love.  And you gotta find YOUR way of doing that... whether it's thinking about how much God loves them, thinking about how it feels when you receive love from people or the environment around you, whether it's because you want them to grow and develop their potential, whether you become so close to them that you want their happiness...  Anyway... that's when you first begin to enter the world of God. When you learn how to come to love people.  For God, that's His root... to love, and all He wants to do is to GIVE LOVE.  Somehow it's built in us but in this world where no one really loves each other the way God intended, it's not easy. 

So that's always the battle - to find how to love people, find the reason to.  Many times it comes back to ME and that's where we have to turn it to THEM.  I like them because they are fun (for me), I like them because they have a car (to drive ME:)), I like them because they are pretty (and?), I like them because they do this and that for me...  I love them because we are so close like sisters and they have always been there for me... Anyway... okay these are retarded examples but...

Anyway - Try for a whole day finding a way to love people for them.  I love them because I see their potential and I want them to reach it.  I love them because of what they can do for the world.  I love them because they are precious for God and the world needs them.  I love them because they have things that are blocking them from being happy and all I want to do is see them experience true happiness. 

Eventually you become like God - I love them because... because... ??? NO reason.  I just love them.  I love them to death.  That's God... Like a True Parent... not I love my kid because he/she is smart, because he/she is slick, because he/she is good lookin.. of course God might like the fact that you are smart but not love you BECAUSE you are.  (God would like the fact that you are good looking because God likes when His children resemble His good looks, smarts, etc... - so ultimately we are). 

Anyway -

So that's part 1 of investment.  It's first building the motivation, the reason to love.  Because then you find the reason to invest. 

HJN invests for one reason - because we are the children of his younger brothers and sisters.  He knows we will never make it into the Kingdom of Heaven if we don't fulfill our responsibility - and that's what he is pushing us to do. 

Alignment is keeping God's vision, dream in mind when you do everything and anything.  It means checking to see if what you are doing is or is not aligned, getting you closer and closer to that vision or dream.

Investment in others.  Living for their sake - because you love them - because you want them to reach their potential, their happiness, their fulfillment...

K?

SO this makes up for last week.

I'll keep writing until I find another way to keep you guys connected...

With t-luv

Akiko onni/nuna