Reflections on the Abandoned “Cross of the Heart”

There are several points I want to share about Mother Hak Ja Han that I haven’t heard anyone discuss elsewhere.

Mother’s essential indemnity foundation

The first is that Mother’s indemnity foundation is supposed to be her forbearance with all the emotional pain that she experienced as a result of taking her mission and from her relationship with Father Sun Myung Moon. This is especially true regarding his involvement with other women.

From what I recall of reading Father’s words and hearing him speak, this is supposed to be the “cross of the heart,” I think it was called, that she is to bear without complaint. Sharing her husband with other women is exactly what Sarah could not do, Elizabeth could not do, and a parallel was the challenge that Judas could not face, Joseph could not face, and others—Lucifer being, of course, the first one who could not share his beloved with another.

Thus, Mother’s complaining about Father’s involvement with other women, calling it his sin and mistake, declaring this as a new part of God's teaching and spreading this assertion to us as her children, is seriously problematic. This is possibly negating her indemnity foundation, a catastrophic development. Given that she did not suffer externally the way that Father did, it seems like she is now destroying her own “claim to fame” that was to have brought her into equivalence with Father (her new claims of divine lineage notwithstanding).

It is perhaps similar to Jesus retracting his revolutionary forgiveness of his enemies on the cross. If Jesus could not forgive his enemies, demonstrating God’s love for Satan’s people, if Father had not demonstrated forgiveness of his enemies, then they would’ve been disqualified as the representative of God on earth. It was their incomprehensible level of love that brought Satan to a natural surrender before them.

The comparison may appear too extreme. But she does appear to be voicing a grudge that either she harbored in her heart for decades or that gradually came to her in the course of her grief after Father's death. It certainly sounds like personal resentment, and this represents a monumental failure of forgiveness for Father and possibly women who participated.

If so, she appears to be repeating a grave providential error and negating her qualification as the bride of Christ.

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