Difference between True Offering Up and endurance

(Short Reflection of Julia Kim of Naju)

What are the religious precepts? Worries bound by religious precepts are only a waste of time. We must not be bound by the religious precepts. Moses established precepts based on justice, but Jesus was nailed to the Cross, died and was buried. But through His resurrection, He gave us a new life and allowed us a new commandment. It’s LOVE itself. Jesus’ commandment is Love, which requires us to love even any enemies.

♬ Love, love, love in the morning, Love in noontime,

Love, love, love in the evening ♬

Love. Amen! Let us love each other!

Who cannot do the love that loves only those who love us? Even sinners and murderers can do the same, and anyone can do so. However, true love means to love someone who does not love me. Since people think love as the sweet only, for the first few months, the newly-married couples are usually besotted with each other. Because they love each other so much, they finally accomplish the marriage, even if it’s opposed by others.

Each of them thinks, “The man loves me so much,” and “The woman loves me so very much.” “Then why can’t we get married?” When a couple gets married and lives together, they feel that it is immensely different from before they got married.

When they first meet and date, they show each other only good things about themselves. “I love you, sweety. I love you with all my life.” But (when they experience discord,) they totally forget about their love risking their lives. “Even if you have to be sacrificed, I have to survive.” The love of those in this world is that. “I have to survive first!”

However, genuine love is sweet but also as bitter as gall. Why is love bitter? It is bitter because we have to cover up, understand, and embrace everything with love.

Suppose one’s husband has an affair. “Honey, how hard it must have been! How much toil it must have been for you to take care of two women since taking care of just one is hard enough! Honey, please lay down. I will give you a massage. How much you must have exhausted your virility while consuming it for two women, instead of one! let’s go to buy some restorative herbal medicine for you.”

How can someone say this without shedding tears! Is there any wife who likes it when her husband cheats on her? And is there any husband who likes it when his wife cheats on him? (No.) If there is such a person among you, please raise up your hands and rise. No one will. Nevertheless, this is what love is. The echo of love definitely comes back. If we continue to love our spouses, the love has no choice but to return to us. How many tears will entail us until that love returns to us! How much pain will accompany us!

Even while making side dishes in the kitchen, being patient, and tolerant over the anguish is totally different from Offering it Up. Just with endurance, saying, “Grr! I cannot even divorce him due to my kids!” and making side dishes, “Grr! How come I met such a man that is like an enemy! Grr!!!” if the wife makes the food filled with anger, even while seasoning spinach saying, “What a wretch! The enemy! That bastard!” then, the meal will be poisoned!

If the wife serves such food by saying, “Eat it!” will the husband digest it well or not? (Not.) That is the example of enduring. Enduring it for their children. On the contrary, this is the example of Offering Up. “Yes, my husband will understand my heart at some point and come back to me.”

Even while seasoning spinach, you can pray, “Jesus, I know You understand my heart. My heart is hurting a lot now, but it is nothing compared to the suffering of You, Jesus and the Blessed Mother. Jesus, while I’m seasoning this spinach, please be with me, Jesus and Blessed Mother. Please fill it with abundant love, so that my husband may get out of the obscene sins as soon as possible by eating it. Jesus please guide, arrange, and lead everything.”

And please add the seasoning of love to the food. The food seasoned with too much toasted sesame seeds is too rough to eat. The food seasoned with too much sesame oil and perilla oil is too greasy to eat. 

What is the delicious seasoning no matter how much we use? It’s the seasoning of love! Why does the Blessed Mother repeat the same Words again and again? Whenever we’re about to forget them, She reminds us of Her Words. I also tell you this because you are about to forget them. Now then, let us make the seasoning of love! Husbands should treat their wives well in the same way.

One day, when I delivered this message, one husband there said to his wife next to him, “Look at that! You must be nice to me!” So, I added after a while, “Husband is sky and wife is earth. Husband should not be a sky that stands tall and tramples his wife from high. Husband should become like the sky which sends down rain to take care of his wife and children well.

And he should become a good sky raising up the wind when it’s too hot. The husband is called the sky not because he is in a high place. The husband should not be mistaken about this. So, when I added how husbands should treat their wives in case their wives have affairs, the wife said to her husband, “Look at that! You got it?” They poked each other. Since I saw they poked each other, I told them like that. Then both of them smiled at each other, held hands, and said, “Let us make a new start.”

Dear all, let us together start anew! I love you.💗💗💗 Amen!