Becoming True Doors to God’s Heart for Others

Our role: Family Federation leader describes how believers who have discovered God’s heart may serve as doors for the many searching on the spiritual journey to find back to the one who created us for a higher purpose

Extracts from a speech by Dieter Schmidt, assistant continental director for the Family Federation in Europe and the Middle East, at an international prayer meeting on Zoom, organized by the Family Federation 28th May 2025.

My dear “brothers” and “sisters”, why are we in this movement?

My story began with a very deep realization before I joined, and this realization was that God is lonely. It was so deep in my heart, and I could not find any explanation in any other religion about it. The teachings were quite different.

But it made me feel really depressed from one moment to the other, and I didn’t know what to do with this experience till I met our movement.

Through our beloved True Parents, we start to understand something about our Heavenly Parent we all did not know before.

My dear “brothers” and “sisters”, this is the most important thing why we are in this movement – to understand the heart of our Heavenly Parent.

Step by step when we look at history, the veil has been taken away from Heavenly Parent, and step by step we understand more.

First, in the Old Testament, there’s the “only one God” concept. But this God was seen quite different at the time. It was a God emphasizing law and prophecy, justice, and of course mercy.

Jesus Christ — *Jesus called God “Father”. Here, “Christ in the Wilderness”, by Ivan Kramskoi (1837-1887). Painting in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. Public domain image. Cropped*

Then Jesus came, and he spoke about his Father, and suddenly we were lifted up into a new intimacy. It’s a God we call Father. That was not clear or understandable for other religions in this depth,

But then, my dear “brothers” and “sisters”, even from there we go beyond it. In the text we just read is the sentence,

“True Parents have devoted their entire lives to establishing the environment in which Heavenly Parent can be substantially present on earth.”

Taking the viewpoint of God means he has never been understood for thousands of years. He could never express his heart. He was in a “prison”. He was totally blocked, and the deepest desire of our True Mother and True Father is to liberate Heavenly Parent to make him come close to us. And with the Cheonil Sanctum that happened.

Now let us really dwell on this understanding: Heavenly Parent now lives with humankind on the earth. “The doors are wide open,” True Mother said.

This is a new situation that means God can come to you and me in a new dimension, in a direct way that has been opened. We understand his heart in a totally new way, and so we can relate to him, and he can share with us deep, intimate things on a personal level.

When True Mother says “the doors are wide open” it also means we open the doors. We have to be “open” for others to enter the Cheonil-guk (Kingdom of Heaven). Each one of us is a door to our Heavenly Parent […].

In this chapter, it says, “Heavenly Parent’s dream and humanity’s hope: True Parents are love.”

Love according to the Principles is higher than the Principles.

There are sometimes maybe some things we are not completely sure of yet or understand or have doubts about. But let us never forget the most important truth is love. We were created out of love, and True Parents are one.

You saw that beautiful picture at the beginning of our reading, of the love between Father and Mother.

So, in that sense, out of this love, we were “born”.

Yesterday I was listening to a very beautiful sermon […] at a prayer vigil. […] The preacher asked the question,

“What is the greatest achievement of True Parents?”

And I was really thinking,

“What is the greatest achievement? Was it their visit to North Korea, or meeting Gorbachev, or what was it?”

The preacher said the greatest achievements are the blessed families.

Do you understand this? I was reflecting, “I’m one of their greatest achievements?”

Well, in one way they are my “Parents”. They are your “Parents”. And the most important thing for parents is the children. It’s so simple that sometimes we forget it, but it is true.

The greatest achievements are all the blessed families. In “The Value of True Parents in Heaven’s Providence”, it says that Heavenly Parent could only create one man and one woman.

But through our beloved True Parents and their “descendants” the lineage of Heavenly Parent can be eternally spread. Both those in the spiritual world and those in the earthly world can be reborn as Heaven’s sons and daughters through the Blessing. […]

In that sense, what a wonderful hopeful news this is! […]

What kind of life are we leading? Dear “brothers” and “sisters”, I feel really, really challenged to come to a new level in my lifestyle. I could see there are many things I should develop more, or I should not do anymore – especially when it comes to time management and to really put God first, to really think, “What is the most important thing?” […]

We have to understand that as children we want our see our parents be united. Isn’t that right? We want them to be one. […] From God‘s point of view, Heaven is so proud of True Father and True Mother, and the unity of them is the most important thing for the salvation of humankind. Whoever tries to divide them, we have to stand strongly against it. True Father and True Mother are one. This is our most important task. […]

In 1. Peter 5:5-7, it says,

“In the same way, you who are younger submit yourselves to your elders, all of you clothe yourselves with humility towards one another, because God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.
Therefore, humble yourselves under God‘s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.”

I’m sure many of us may not have an easy situation, may struggle with sickness, may have financial difficulties, may have lost a loved one, may worry about the wars. This is very real, and we cannot just put it aside, but we should bring all our worries to our Heavenly Parent. The power of Heavenly Parent, the power of being united with True Mother will overcome these problems. This is the prophecy that True Parents will wipe away all the tears of humankind.

I really want you to have this hope, this strong desire to bring the Kingdom of Heaven on earth in unity with our Heavenly Parent and the True Parents and right now with our beloved True Mother.

In that sense, I wish you a wonderful, hopeful time to come on your personal level, family level, national level. Let’s bring a victory together.

Thank you very much.

This is an edited version of the speech.

Featured image above: becoming doors to a Kingdom of Heaven. Illustration: Grok xAI, May 2025

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