54. Who are the Loving Parents?

I must explain to you the concept of “the loving parents,“ so that you would understand a very precise meaning of these words. You already well know that the Source of love is the Father. Therefore, it is possible to feel love and experience it in all its sweetness and tranquility, flight and freedom provided that the Father is discovered within oneself. Only then do the parents stand firmly, in all the life circumstances, and love each other in the strict sense of the word. In all the other cases they are not the loving parents. They have merely their own interests and strive for satisfying them. Some by coddling their children, others, by teaching them very strictly, still others by intimidating them. And they always believe that they love their children. The same might also be said about the parents themselves in relation to each other. They ask each other: “Do you love me?“ How could one ask about the thing that one must feel at every single moment. If this question comes up it means there is no feeling of this sort. In this case there is only a distorted concept, an illusion, of loving.     

Therefore, when I say the loving parents I speak about the truly loving parents and not about the self-deceptive parents who believe they are the loving parents. Simply there cannot be any father or mother who would be loving if the father or the mother does not reveal himself or herself in all his or her soul, heart, to the Father, if he or she does not commune with Him out of all his or her soul, heart. Only this type of communion with the Father truly enables the parents to become the loving parents.

While otherwise an instinctive love for their children characteristic of the parents is that very same love out of the Father, only on an instinct level that all the fairly large mammal family lives on. But man is the only one to possess the gift of the personality provided by the Father. Therefore, he must raise the Father‘s love that he is receiving from the Source of personality from an instinctive, and at the same time animal, level to a higher level - to the personality human level. But it is actually impossible of doing it without having found the Father within oneself. Moral principles, the norms of ethics, the postulates of a religion can help only in part. And only to those who are still seeking God, who are not satisfied with merely performing the church rituals.