29 Oct 1981

 This New Year is for all time. Every moment is new for you.  On New Year’s Day, you especially wear new clothes, you put on new jewellery and have new enthusiasm. You celebrate that day because you consider that day to be a day of great happiness and you give greetings to everyone. You sweeten people’s mouths. Sweetening people’s mouths means to remind them of the sweet Father and to bring them into relationship with Him with your sweet words. To have an elevated stage every day means to instill newness within yourself every day. As each second passes, you have a new stage. Because you experience your stage to be ascending, the stage you have is constantly elevated and new from one moment to the next. 

In a worldly way, when you go to a celebration, you would give money and be given something in return. You definitely receive something. Before you receive something, you have to give something. Therefore, are you constantly receiving something? Even amongst yourselves, you are always receiving one another’s specialities or virtues, are you not? As a result of imbibing a speciality within yourself, ordinariness within you automatically finishes. When you imbibe a virtue, your weakness caused by the lack of that virtue automatically finishes. This becomes a form of giving. You give one-fold and receive multimillion-fold! Therefore, to give voluntarily, that is, with determination means to give one fold and receive multimillion-fold. So, you have to give, because it is only in giving that there is benefit. Do you understand what it is to give and receive?