Conditions

Hyo Jin Moon November 4, 2007 Belvedere, 7:00 am

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Rev. Andrew Compton is the MC. All welcome Hyo Jin nim and Yeon Ah nim and offer a standing bow.

Hyo Jin nim bows to the audience as he approaches the stage.

Good morning. (Good morning)

All of us at anytime are on some kind of condition. Right?

I want to go on a diet; I'm going to loose a hundred pounds, whatever. (Laughing)

I'm going to do this; I'm going to do that. Try to make a condition, because a condition represents something that you want to change that will come in the future, something that will change.

And how do you go about achieving that condition? What normally has to happen? Obviously you have to have a goal. Right? You have to know what you're aiming for. You have to have direction. So based on that, you make a condition, and obviously what follows that is commitment, and ultimately into action.

So how do you change the Spirit World? You need to improve your grades so you go on a condition and you make a commitment to study a little longer. If you study maybe one hour per week, (Laughing) you jack it up to maybe one hundred hours or something, so you can improve your grades.

Well that can physically happen, but how do you change something that is beyond you? How do you go about changing something based on a condition that YOU can make, and make a difference?

What do you call that big lotto stuff with millions, hundreds of millions of dollars? Let's say that there is a lottery jackpot of three-hundred-million dollars, and you're going to pray, you're going to make that condition; you'll pray every day to God so you can win that lottery. (Laughing) Do you thing that's a good condition?

Conditions only have to be about something centered on love, and if it's that, it is not for you; it is for somebody else.

Through my wife I heard about a person that was struggling because she joined the church, but her little sisters didn't. And she was struggling because her little teenage sisters were doing stuff that she's concerned about. And I told her "Hey, you go down that path when you're at that age and there's nothing you can do to stop them from doing what they're doing except locking them up. If locking them up is unrealistic then obviously you have no control. I know that you feel powerless, but you want to do something."

And I saw her trying to make some kind of condition. I saw her praying in the wee hours of the morning, praying for s