Finding Our Way Back: Understanding God’s Plan

The simplicity of truth: Embracing God’s plan and our place in it

Part 2 of video message from Rev. Demian Dunkley, president of the Family Federation of North America, transcribed from video 1 (Lesson 1) in a series of lectures titled “Discourse on True Mother‘s Revelations”, posted on the education site of the Family Federation of the USA February 2025.

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See lesson 2: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6

But in order to be a Parent, what does God need?

God with his combined nature of both male and female creates us divided as two separate beings, male and female.

But what does God need to become a Parent or a true Parent? This question leads us to the very purpose of creation and the purpose of life itself. Let’s unpack what that means.

Purpose means that there is a desired intent, a goal, a dream. It’s the Creator that determines the purpose of the Creator’s actions. And you can say that that purpose is an intention; it’s a goal. It can be described as a dream.

There is a purpose to creation. God has a dream. God has a purpose. If there is a purpose to life, and if there is a purpose behind all that has been created, and if all that’s been created is created by God, then to find out the fundamental basis of our existence, we can simply ask one question, which is, “What is God’s dream?”

What is God’s dream? That’s something we should pray about. That is something we should study about, think about, reflect on – what is God’s dream?

Mother Moon May 2024 — *Mother Han speaking in Munich, Germany 19th May 2024. Photo: FFWPU*

I’m going to be sharing Mother‘s words and some of my own commentary, my own experience. But as important as the Word is, as important as truth is, I find that some of us, perhaps especially those who study the Word in depth, from whichever walk of faith you come from, it is possible to get overly stuck to the law of the Word as opposed to the spirit of it, or the expression of the truth as opposed to the real intent behind it and the spirit behind it. These two things are important to go together.

We should look at scripture. We should refer to True Parents’ words to learn a whole lot about ourselves, the world, about history and about where we need to go.

But I just want to encourage you right off the bat here that in reality, my experience with truth is that it really is pretty much common-sense stuff.

And the way Mother expresses with such simplicity the whole “6,000 year” history, and where we are now, and where we’re going, we could have finished this already in 10 minutes, 15 minutes, if we just read Mother‘s words. It’s all there.

But as valuable as it is to take some time to unpack it, study it, pray about it, I really want to encourage you that it should be a living experience for you, and one that frankly has not only a feeling of spirit, of connecting to the intent and the meaning behind the truth, but also just keep in mind that it’s pretty much common-sense stuff, right? It doesn’t have to be super complicated. It doesn’t.

If we had never fallen away from our relationship with God, I don’t think, we would have needed all of this study, all of these various religious faiths, each in their own way trying to bring us back home, because we’d be home already. We wouldn’t have veered off the path and got lost, right?

Because we did, we are having to walk back to the beginning point. And religion and theology and all this has played a great role in getting us back.

But the irony is not lost on me that the truth that Mother conveys is really very, very simple. And I want to encourage you. Pray about it as much as you like, think about it as much you like, but don’t assume that it really has to be so complicated.

Happy families part of God's plan — **Becoming new “wineskins” and creating happy families is an essential part of God’s plan**. Illustration: Microsoft Designer Image Creator, 8th March 2025

Be open, be new, like Mother says and refers to the wineskin parable. Become like new wineskins. Become open. Surrender everything that you have understood thus far. It’s not going to go away, you’re not going to lose it, but just surrender it for a moment to really take in what it is that Mother has been sent by God to reveal to you.

It’s not even the last days or final days. We are in a new era, and we got to catch up to the era that we’re in. There is so much blessing to be had, so much joy to be experienced.

And this is where we’re going together with Mother. And that’s why I’m taking some time to hold hands together through the journey of True Parents’ words.

Next, we’re really going to unpack more about the original purpose of creation from the perspective of God’s dream. What is God’s dream?

See part 1

See lesson 2, about God’s dream: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6

Featured image above: Illustration used by Rev. Demian Dunkley during his video lecture. Image: FFWPU

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