In my early twenties I was working at Orly airport, as a ground hostess for “Olympic Airways” owned by Onassis. I spoke some Greek at that time, and sometimes seeing the big boss pass by with the famous Maria Callas to catch a flight, I was wondering to myself, is he happy? is she happy? I was in search of the pursuit of happiness.
I would look at the titles in the Paris newspaper stands, and I remember them vividly: “The 21st century will be religious or won’t be,” “We are in the age of Aquarius,” and “Nostradamus predictions.” Among the other titles of everyday politics, those headlines were catching my eyes and I was wondering what this all means and wanted prove that God exists.
Shortly afterwards, arriving in Milano, Italy and continuing my search I met a group called in 1970 the “Unified Family.” I found what I was looking for.
In the Introduction of the Divine Principle, the text revelation received by the late Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the first sentence said: “Everyone is struggling to attain happiness and avoid misfortune.” As I continued reading, it felt like the words were jumping out of the page into my heart with such deep meaning and emotions. I had finally found what I was looking for. I did some dancing for joy in the streets of Milano and then the streets of Paris.
A year earlier my husband to be had a similar experience in Vienna, reading that all men want to find happiness: “Everyone without exception is struggling to find happiness.” The Divine Principle is a vision, a guide that offers hope to those who wants to find the essence of life and live righteously. We were studying the same book before we met and for both of us these teachings were the best influence in our life.
When we met in America, we knew very well the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
There are no coincidences. In these 250 years celebration let’s celebrate One Nation under God.
An inspiring talk on the 250 years of the nation was given by Dr. Frank Kaufmann at the Settlement Project Conference in Columbus, OH, July 18, 2026. You can read his speech here: The 250-Year Milestone.
Insight Stories
My Peace with Numbers
In my life I did not pay much attention to numbers. Maybe I was too preoccupied with other things like 💕 love. Dietrich loves numbers; that is why at home he was doing all the accounting of numbers which were low in all categories. Besides being a theologian, he was an engineer and math teacher.
Numbers speak. In the Bible it is said we should give 10% offering of all our income. With these tithings we help the world around us.
The Israelites walked in the desert for 40 years after those sent to spy out the Promised Land for 40 days gave negative reports and the Israelites complained to God.
Jesus prayed and fasted for 40 days and resisted Satan’s 3 temptations.
Before we receive the blessing in marriage we fast 7 days for purification. When my husband was sick, our daughter Diesa fasted 7 days. Another time she fasted 3 days with her friends, Nurie and Jessa, offering support and fasting with her the last day for healing of my husband.
When my husband passed, I counted the years we were together. it was 40 years! I was satisfied we were together for this amount of time.
One time at the fair there was a numerologist and he started playing and adding the numbers from my name and date of birth. He said when adding the numbers together it was auspicious. I went to visit my friend Tia and the number of her apartment was the same as my date of birth. Because she is of Chinese descent, she trusts numbers and said she picked this number because it was a lucky number. She also makes sure her clients bank number are lucky numbers, because she is a financial advisor.
As for me, I love number 43 and 430. Why? Because somehow these numbers fulfill my life accomplishments!
Most important, one year maybe it was 2020 or 2021, as I was packing to go to my hometown in France a strong voice in my heart mind said I should count numbers until I fulfill 43 couples who are totally dedicated to establishing a heavenly family and 430 couples who were already there as my foundation who rededicated their marriage vows and pledged fidelity to build a new culture of heart and love. In so doing they were terminating the culture of sins and divorce.
One family under God is the new culture! And God loves numbers!
Miracles Around Us
After God created the world, He said it was good (Genesis chapter 1).
So, I am a created being and my line of ancestors all the way to the original creator our God the Heavenly Parent are part of my family.
Our eyes were created so beautifully made to see the created world full of splendor.
When we conceived a child my husband and I became co-creators with God. Only about three months after my son Christopher was conceived his heart started beating.
Then there was mother’s milk. Mother’s milk is not passive it is intelligent. Scientist Katie Hinde studied samples of breast milk in her lab. She discovered that the composition of a mother’s milk was not fixed, but it shifted and changed. It seems to react to something unseen.
My milk was uniquely adjusted moment by moment for my own child. Tiny amount of saliva from my baby were moving backwards through the nipple into the breast tissue, a process that researchers now call retrograde duct flow. That saliva carries biological information including signals about the baby’s immune condition, stress levels, and immediate health needs. Within hours the mother’s body reads the signals, then it responds: the milk changes. If the baby is fighting an infection, the mother’s milk can sharply increase its white blood cells; if the baby is under stress, calming compounds appear in higher amounts. It is a two-way biochemical conversation that happens quietly between mother and child.
This is a vertical connection where our lineage can continue forever by being a co-creator with God.
We need to discover all the miracles around us.
Rules of the ❤️ Heart
When I was in college and about sixteen years old, one of my French Literature professors seemed to favorite me by liking my essays and reading them to the other classes! We also had a school newspaper in which I was involved. Looking back, it was training for my life mission.
When Dietrich was teaching at university here and there I would ask him, “are you not supposed to write books? Every year? He would say yes of course, but I am too busy at this time! I would reply, “yes, but you have something to say.”
One Christmas while teaching in Vienna my husband had a stroke. While staying at the intensive care unit he wanted me to bring all the papers he had to correct. I refused and called the university instead.
I took care of my husband for seven years. It was an ordeal but we had each other. During this time, we met with the Tanabes, forming a renewed working friendship.
The first draft of Dietrich’s first book arrived at the San Diego hospital. He tried to read it. It was not working.
I told him: I will take care of everything! These were rules of the heart.
He lived his life practicing true love. True love as a way of life.
Today I am happy to report that we will soon celebrate his ten years in the spiritual world where for us there are no barriers, just a thin veil that we can cross and meet again and again!
These are rules of the ❤️ heart.
Please enjoy my slide show below as we celebrate the launch of my book “Stories to Nourish the Heart: Book 2”! 💕💕
Ethics and Filial Piety Connect Generations
“Do not worry! I am here now,” I said one day in my prayer morning devotion. I was talking to my ancestors, telling them that I will do what it takes to free and liberate them. And my husband’s ancestors as well! We are here now.
One warm summer day my son’s wish was to visit the tombs of his ancestors as he was visiting me in France for three days. That day he was inspired and reverent.
One of his friends from Ireland healed himself by working with his ancestors and working out his own life and diseases coming from ancestral dysfunction.
The filial heart of honoring one’s ancestors goes beyond repairing the debt of gratitude to one’s own parent. it is also the root of ethics of human existence, revering the source of all life.
In Korea it is said that filial devotion protects one’s parents, one’s family, and one’s neighbors, becoming the driving force for overcoming national crisis. It is the spirit that, beginning with the family, sustains the society and nation.
Out of Chaos Let’s Make Order
Yesterday we had a breakfast party on the sunny patio downstairs from my apartment with friends and neighbors. Miraculously the food appeared on time because of Andy and Solange who made a delicious omelet that everyone enjoyed. Food is love, especially if it is cooked for someone else. The Cosco croissants were bought with a “thinking of others” thought which arrived inside the Viennoiseries. Everyone could taste it!
As for myself, I had a rough week because my apartment was in chaos and I did not feel ready for hosting anything but somehow we did. Then I thought of my Parent the Heavenly Father and Mother who first had a thought to make a world where the children could live. The very last creations were human beings: You can read in the Bible that we were created in the image of God, man and woman he created them in His very own image.
In Unification Theology it is said and explained as in the Bible also that out of chaos God brought order. When order was there and everything was ready for God’s children, with miraculous food and plants, fruits, and fish and meats to eat around them, God breathed into His children the breath of life. Because God was dreaming of a loving family where God the Parent could live among them.
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When All That’s Left Is Love
For many years my husband and I pledged to be “laborers who are working to establish the one world of the heart.” We continued by saying that “We will fight with our life and we will be responsible in front of God for accomplishing our duty and mission.”
To love each other forever was our mission in life, because love and mission are not totally separated.
Conquering the Original Sin was brutal.
Conquering evil by working to establish the One World of the Heart has been a dream come true.
When one of us had to go to the spiritual realm and said, “I will be always with you, forever together,” we put a milestone in establishing the Kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven.
Happy Valentine’s everyone!
Holy Wine and Sacred Water
One Saturday in my home town in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, I had the crazy idea to have a book table by myself, with the books I have written and my husband’s books as well, in the middle of the French market. In a country that totally disrespect God, religions, and most especially new religions, new ideas.
The books are all in English. They are food for the soul. They testify about our life and why we do what we do. The books testified how I found true love, and God; how I was lost then found; how persecution built my character and gave me strength to stand my ground.
After 54 years of doing what I do, now I hear things in my heart soul. I can heal things. I have spiritual weapons no one can see. I can transform hate into love. Wherever I go I bring holy wine and sacred water.
In my childhood one of my good uncles, Uncle Jean, used to go frequently to Lourdes in southern France where he would drink and collect the miraculous water at the place where Saint Bernadette saw many apparitions of Virgin Mary. He always gave me some. I drank it thinking of the supernatural.
So, this market day in St Jean I was very brave. I was all alone if you look with your naked eye. But beside me there were a multitude of spiritual beings, supporting and cheering me like angels, saints from above, and good ancestors. Jesus always, Virgin Mary, and John the Baptist since St Jean was named after John the Baptist.
After one lady pointed finger at me in anger, another one came with deep pain and anguish representing all the people in this town. I listened and took in all the suffering for one hour. Love heals, love forgives, love renews our soul. She drank the holy wine and received the holy water, leaving all the pains in the stratosphere.
Love heals everything! Indeed, love heals everything!
Insights into Marriage and Family
When my late husband, Dr. Dietrich Seidel, started working on his Ph.D. thesis on Marriage and Family our relationship greatly improved. It was because he did so much research into the topic and applied his findings to our daily life.
This month, I want to recommend to you “Unification Insights into Marriage and Family,” a collection of his writings. The family is so precious, and you need skills to navigate your life.
Here are some reviews to let you know more:
This book will make you think-and more importantly feel-what God’s hope is for humankind in terms of genuine love between human beings and God. It will help you discover a new understanding of the kind of love God wants to see expressed between husband and wife and among members of each and every family around the world, and how this can be achieved.
Dietrich Seidel is both a devoted husband and father and a consummate theologian and educator. In addition, he and his wife Elisabeth have been globe-trotting marriage and family coaches, offering seminars and workshops on improving marriages and overcoming self-centeredness in relationships. These experiences have uniquely qualified Seidel to write this book of essays.
As you read, you will find yourself transported from the fascinating details of his life presented in his autobiographical essay, to Olympian insights about how love develops between God and us (with our Herculean effort), to nuts-and-bolts pointers on how to strengthen the fiber of our love for our spouse as well as how to maintain a good give and take of love with our children.
All in all, it is hearty food for the intellect and for the soul.
~Robert Selle, writer, Washington DC.
Seidel’s work is remarkable for its scope and depth, its clarity and its personal touch. With writings ranging broadly from thoughtful scholarly analysis to devotional confession to wise guidance on family dynamics, this volume is a rich resource for anyone seeking greater understanding of Unification teachings, of one man’s spiritual journey or practical ideas for nurturing family harmony. A rich treasure from a deep-hearted scholar.
~Farley Jones, President, Pacific Rim Education Foundation
This collection of writings by academic Dietrich F. Seidel offers many highlights in the life of this remarkable man. His scholarly articles reveal his genuine intellect, devotion to God and desire to see harmony between religion and science. But it is his wise and passionate marriage writings that appeal to me, a lay marriage mentor. Dietrich understood that loving relationships are paramount to a happy, satisfying life—and well worth the investments of time, energy and affection. Anyone in search of sound advice about marriage and parenting will be well served by his words.
~Cheryl Wetzstein, veteran journalist, lay marriage mentor, wife and mother
Building a Culture of Heart
Love between husband and wife is eternal.
The love between husband and wife cannot be given to another. If it is, it will be destroyed.
Including God in our relationship will bring peace in the family, and ultimately peace in the world. This love then can expand to our neighborhood and together we build a culture of heart!