PRESIDENT'S CORNER - MAY 2016
Dear Friends,
A most Happy Mother's Day again to all mothers, grandmothers, and mothers-to-be!
Every day is Mother's Day in a way, because every day we need the wonderful qualities and characteristics of a motherly heart to enlighten, guide, and sustain our daily lives. And of course that is also true of the fatherly heart of fathers, who likewise possess qualities of love and nurturing.
It is wonderful when we can appreciate and uplift these qualities in each other!
This month, I was asked by a group called Ocean Challenge to speak on the topic of "The Ocean and the Era of Women," both of which were favorite topics of our Co-founder of WFWP, the late Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon. It so happens that my husband, Bob, spent two years working with a fishing boat in Miami, so I asked him to write down his thoughts on women and the ocean. I felt I would like to share them with you, as an appropriate contribution for our May newsletter.
Please enjoy; and know and appreciate who you are as a woman who, whether young or older, has a motherly heart!
Happy Mother's Day always!
With love,
Angelika
Some thoughts about the ocean and women by Bob Selle:
- The ocean is like a woman because it "takes care" of the world.
- It plays a key role in the Carbon Cycle, withdrawing huge quantities of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere that might otherwise harm the Earth.
- Through the Carbon Cycle, the ocean creates harmony and balance, like a mother, between Earth's different "children" -- the living things, the land, and the atmosphere.
- Through the Water Cycle, which is driven by the motherly ocean, the land and its many inhabitants are nurtured, cared for, revived, and blessed with fresh water.
- The ocean is like a woman because it's mysterious and deep. Deep emotion marks the surface of the ocean, from storm to placidness to sunniness to contemplativeness. And deep emotion pervades the depths of the sea, where there is endless, fascinating drama between an infinite variety of living things and where there is the Quiet that reminds us of the Infinitude and Oneness of God.
- The ocean is like a woman because it's fertile and fecund. God decided to create the first living things in the ocean, so it's much like a womb -- the womb that God chose to fertilize with the seed of life.
- Like a woman, our Mother Ocean brings us wonderment and joy. At the seaside, her jewelry is everywhere -- from a profusion of shells to the flashing colors of many fish.
- And like a mother, she is always giving gifts: to the fisherman, salmon and bluefin tuna and striped bass; to the trader, sea routes to everywhere in the world; to the contemplative, awe and delight.
- Like a mother, she unites the family -- the family of man. The ocean doesn't divide country from country and continent from continent; it unites them, as the island natives of Oceania recognized long ago.
