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Think Yourself Well!

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In 1987 Rev. Moon had a meeting with health professionals before opening a hospital. He saw the real impact in curing disease is from the spiritual factor. In other words, the mind. If a man becomes sick and choose to lives in nature, like in the mountains, and has a strong will and spirituality, he can live well there and overcome his sickness.

If you go to church then your mind is so happy that you forget you have an illness, that can be one of the best cures. Spirituality makes your spirit strong which gives vitality elements to your body!

In her book Mind Over Medicine, Lissa Rankin said:

  • Change your thoughts
  • Change your behaviors
  • Change your biochemistry.

Our mind can make us sick, and it can make us well. Our feelings and beliefs impact our every cell. See yourself happy, whole, and at ease.

Our thoughts hold more medicine than many of the astonishing medical breakthroughs of our time.
Hope heals.

Happiness is preventative medicine.

Whether or not we feel and express love affects our well-being.

Infants’ material needs can be met, like being well fed, having appropriate clothing, etc., but if they are left alone in their crib, ignored, and not loved, they can die very quickly. That’s why the school of love is the family.

My grandma Marie was dropped off at the orphanage in Lyon, I believe by her birth mother. Because I also believe her birth father could not, or decided not to, take responsibility for love.

My grandma found adoptive parents who loved her as their own daughter amidst many other children of their own. They restored hope and happiness in her, gave her a dowry when she married, and she became my beloved grandma.

The family is the school of love. The clan and tribe continue a loving community, and at church you find larger social networks.

Healthy relationships are medicine for the mind. Think yourself well!

Good Luck, Guidance, and Divine Intervention

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When you think deeply about your son and he happens to call, and both hearts are melting…

When it’s January, and has been snowing the whole night and you have to head to New York City for a very special event you cannot cancel, and you realize your neighbor has been blowing the snow in your driveway and your car is ready to go!

You are fundraising for a good cause but you become so tired that you do not want to do it anymore. Then you see a bird and a voice in your head says, “Come this way.” You follow the bird. It stops at one house. The lady buys your plant. The bird is still there and flies to the next house. You are very intrigued and follow it to the next house where again your plants are sold.

Your car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. You pray because you do not know what to do. A car stops by you and two young men came out. They are mechanics and fix your car in no time and you are ready to go.

You are crying profusely in your kitchen where two birds live (in a cage) because your boyfriend just broke up with you. The moment you start crying, the birds sing joyfully. You stop crying for a minute and the birds stop singing. You start crying again and the birds sing joyfully till your heart is comforted.

Your heart feels sad today. Look up to heaven for an answer and look down where there is a shining penny waiting for you to pick it up. it says “In God We Trust”!

You have been alone. You are 30 years old. You went to a matching event at Belvedere where the four-leaf clovers grow. You are matched this very night with someone you never saw before. It was your true love forever and ever!

These are experiences of good luck, guidance, and divine intervention.

Love Stimulates Love

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“What’s wrong with the world…People livin’ like they ain’t got no mamas.”
This is from the song “Where Is the Love?” by the Black Eyed Peas.

On each trip to the library, I pick up a few books on marriage and relationships. This has always been for me the most interesting topic as life is all about relationships. if we can get the fundamental relationship of husband and wife going strong and the family is well, then all will be well.

In his book Family First, Dr. Phil shares that he has an obligation to protect and care for his family. He and his wife made a pledge to each other and their family, reporting to God in prayer.

The other book I picked was the The Good Marriage: How and Why Love Lasts, by Judith S. Wallerstein and Sandra Blakeslee. They said that one in two marriages ends in divorce, and one in three children can expect to experience their parents’ divorce. The bride and groom themselves may question why they should marry, since it’s likely to break up.

To continue from The Good Marriage, the authors convey that even happily married men and women can get depressed, lose jobs; they cry, yell, get frustrated; they come from sad, abusive neglectful backgrounds as well as from stable families. All marriages are haunted from things of the past.

Marriage counselors like to tell their clients that there are at least six people in every marital bed: the couple and both sets of parents.

My favorite book this month is by Gary Chapman, author of The 5 Love Languages. The title of his book is Love as a Way of Life.

Chapman said that his marriage radically changed after he asked his wife three questions every day:

1. What can I do to help you today?
2. How can I make your life easier?
3. How can I be a better husband to you?

He said when he asked these questions, his wife gave the answers with no reluctance. Her answers taught him how to express love to her in meaningful ways. Within a month, he saw a change in his wife’s attitude towards him. Within three months, she was willing to ask him those three questions in return. Their relationship took a positive turn. “Love always stimulates love.”

Chapman also mentioned that they gave each other complete access to computers, cell phones, and financial records. Being an open book to each other like this means not hiding anything, not cheating. It is better to share everything for protection, and be together in everything. He emphasized that no other man could treat his wife as well as he does. He believes he needed divine help in order to make love as a way of life.

I was very thrilled this month when my editor announced she transcribed sixteen tapes of Dietrich’s classes on Marriage and Family. Without God things become quickly impossible and hopeless! Dietrich was a theologian first and foremost. And second, he has the same dream as God, our Heavenly Parent, to make an eternal relationship with one’s spouse and God together. I have to say as his wife he did an excellent job!

Stay Connected to Your Spouse at All Times: If one of us is hurt, we are all hurt

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I read this quote on the internet:

“When a woman loves a man, and that man gives other women attention behind her back, she is not ‘jealous’ or ‘insecure’ but she is feeling hurt and betrayed by the man that says he loves her.”

For me this means protecting our boundaries, protecting the respect we have for each other, protecting our relationship from outsiders, solving our problems within our marriage, making our partner feel valued and secure by working to create unity with each other. It means giving attention to another woman (flirting) is cheating. An emotional affair is part of infidelity.

One of our life episodes was when Dietrich was finishing his doctorate in theology and we had two young children. Another lady was also finishing her doctoral studies.

One day my husband announced that he was going to study with her in her apartment for a few hours. I thought, “Oh, he needs to study and she too, and they are helping each other. And she is engaged to be married!”

But I did not like the fact that there would be alone in her apartment. After a few hours “she” drove him back to the park where I was waiting with the kids. I did not like the way she was looking at my husband. It did not feel quite right. It felt like an intrusion. That another “she” was having all the attention.

I did not feel “jealous” or insecure.” I felt deeply hurt.

It is said in the Bible that Jesus had to overcome three temptations. At that time my spouse was not realizing that it was a trap from Satan, and he was being tempted. “She” did not have pure motives.

We solved this situation pretty quickly, because we knew stuff! Alarm bells rang in our ears.

It is uncomfortable if a married man says to a woman that she is pretty. Never develop an emotional connection or digital connection with another woman. Emotion leads to physical action.

There are many ways to create inseparable bonds. You can have meaningful rituals that no interference can destroy.

My husband and I always prayed together. It means we built a wall of protection! We had daily meaningful conversations (we built intimacy). We solved our conflicts by researching problem solving.

We had lots of credit in our emotional bank account and if I ever said something unkind to him, he would look for ways to repay me with kind words and unconditional Godly love.

We had a spiritual life. We had a purpose. We had a highly ideal mission. Our mission was to be one, together is better. To be the other half of each other.

We resemble our Creator, our Heavenly Parent. When we reach that point, we become inseparable, from each other and from God. And there will be no more fallen humankind! Oh what a wonderful world!

Healing our Spiritual Cancer

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When we were a young family, my husband Dietrich was working on his Ph.D. in theology and philosophy. One of our discussion topics was how to distinguish good and evil! He said that, for his children, it is so important for them (as for all of us) to understand the difference.

In fact, what makes us miserable and unhappy is the misuse of love. If we look around we see it everywhere.

In the Bible we read that God created us in His image, man and woman He created us. We also read that there was temptation, that Eve the first woman was tempted by the serpent Lucifer, then tempted Adam, and the Fall happened! And as a theologian this was not a bedtime story, but a real drama which happened a long, long time ago, but with so many consequences that we see today!

There is a malaise d’amour! Mal d’amour makes a person not want to live anymore, because he or she cannot be loved or love as God intended! God gave us freedom but with freedom comes responsibility. The quest of all philosophies and all theologies is to find happiness.

I quickly learned when I was a young bride that I had to overcome things. I had to grow in wisdom and understanding and not succumb to temptations or tricks from the devil, and not develop a spiritual cancer.

We are living in the “End Times” and Jesus is coming back, or has come back. As Elon Musk is saying, the rapture is coming or is here. Humanity is at a crossroads between good and evil. Let’s choose carefully the Son of Man descending from above, the Only Begotten Son marrying the Only Begotten Daughter, and establishing firmly the Kingdom of God on Earth as it is in Heaven.

In doing so, all spiritual cancers, as well as conflicts and wars and tears, will be eradicated. and humankind, by taking responsibility, will establish the world that everyone is looking for!

Your friend, Elisabeth Seidel


The Pain Traveling Through Our Family Line

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A long time ago I had a good medical doctor, Dr. Teubl. By good I mean caring, welcoming, listening well, loving, emphatic, hopeful, with faith in God and prayerful. The moment you entered his office you sensed the good vibes! The good doctor was a family man, he had eight kids so he could understand all characters and personalities as he was being trained at home.

This good doctor said to me that we can overcome in one generation those problems inherited from seven previous generations. So, the remedy he gave me was a Bible verse to repeat every day. Because you see my problem was emotional not physical. I was born just at the end of World War Two, and my mom who was carrying me lived in anxiety. She had lost the previous child because the midwife happened to be drunk.

I read the following quote online:

Pain travels through family lines until someone is ready to heal it in themselves. By going through the agony of healing you no longer pass the poison chalice onto the generation that follows, it is incredibly important and sacred work.

Doctors often ask about your family history to understand your potential health situation, so we inherit the good and not so good. in today’s modern medicine there are so many different modes of healing: plants, herbs, homeopathy, energy healing, family constellation healing, spiritual healing, angels healing, prayer healing etc. Statistics have shown that a person who is prayed for heals faster, a person who goes to church can add seven years to their life.

Letting go of old stuff like toxic emotions, letting go of toxic shows, letting go of trauma, we need to break the chain. In vibrational healing it is possible even to remove stuck spiritual entities from our cells and raise our vibrations and replenish our energy through prayers, choosing good things, reconnecting with nature. Positive grateful thoughts raise our vibrations. 

Since my husband was a theologian, we talked often about the sins of our ancestors and how we wished to heal all of them during our lifetime, that all generations to come will be healthy and free!

I like these quotes from Hak Ja Han Moon, Mother of Peace, about healing the pain of our ancestors:

Besides bringing the word of God, during my tours I conducted ceremonies to liberate the spirits of those whose lives had been sacrificed. The True Parents’ victory upon the earth has opened the gates of resurrection in the spirit world. The members in Austria, in the spring of 2018, carried out such a ceremony. If you follow the Danube River west from Vienna for about two hours, you come to the village of Mauthausen. Amid its beautiful scenery is a visitors’ center in front of a depressing and sinister-looking building. That building with its towering walls of thick, gray brick brings on tears of bitter grief, for during the Second World War it was a concentration camp. There, the Nazis incarcerated Jews and many others. Many of the almost 200,000 people that passed through Mauthausen met miserable deaths. What remains are not relics from 70 years ago. The true pain one feels there is that of the spirit persons who are stuck in that prison, trapped in their resentment. They can resurrect only after the True Parents of healing and hope can console them and alleviate their bitter resentment and sadness. ~ Hak Ja Han Moon, Mother of Peace, 2020, page 219

Holding onto the frame of the Door of No Return, I shed tears, along with the mayor of Gorée and everyone present, as I prayed for Africa to be freed from the pain and resentment caused by slavery. Liberating those who have ascended differs from comforting those who are alive on earth. Both are possible through the earnest prayer of God’s only begotten Daughter, who carries the mission to save humanity. Facing the silent, grieving walls of the Slave House, I forever broke the miserable chains of Africa’s oppression. ~ Hak Ja Han Moon, Mother of Peace, 2020, page 293

Your friend, Elisabeth Seidel

Opening the Gates to the Kingdom of Heaven

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When my German spiritual father Reiner Vincenz was a missionary in Paris France, he said to me that he had always loved France very much. That’s why he came here as a missionary to share new spiritual insights revealed by God in order to bring peace and establish the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. He fasted and prayed for France with sincere tears and repentance for my country, loving my people. He also said that the funny thing in France is that there are rules and laws like in every country, but in France there is always another law or rule that contradicts the first one.

I will come back to my spiritual father’s life in another Insight Story. Today I want to share my experience in traveling in Europe, and laws and rules from different places.

In France you cannot imagine the train controller kicking you out of the train if you happen to have no ticket or if you lost your ticket. They will give you another one, plus fees.

In Hungary if you are retired, trains are free. In fact, Gisela, my sister-in-law, and I were planning to travel from Austria through Hungary all the way to Ukraine and the Soviet Union. But this trip never happened.

One day I was traveling from the Vienna woods to Vienna city by a most sleek modern fast train. As I was using the ladies’ room suddenly someone was banging on the door like they were searching for a murderer or something similar. I was so startled and scared. It was the most unfriendly train controller I ever met to this day; I remember him well. in Germany and Austria, where they speak German as well, do not think of bending any rule.

One year arriving in Europe through Italy, landing in Torino close enough to my hometown in the French Alps, I had no ticket as I was late. When I took out my American credit card to pay for my ticket, the controller suddenly became ecstatic: “Oh America, the country of my dreams! For you it is free! No need to buy a ticket!” That day the rules did not apply.

Ahh Italy! Les Italians, mes cousins! Savoie was part of Italy in the past, and then became the Kingdom of Savoie, le Royaume de Savoie. That’s why I also have Italian ancestors and love Italy so much. Italian songs make me cry, and the Italian spirit warms my heart. But I became American in heart because my family has been living here for more than forty years. My kids are American, Canadian, and French. That’s why we love the whole world, even the strict Austrians and Germans who need the French to melt their hearts.

We are supposed to love each other and our different cultures and origins. “We love our neighbor as ourself.” We have the same Heavenly Parent, and are we not here to finally open the gates of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth.?

That’s why my German spiritual father came to France in the sixties. That’s why my true love is a handsome Austrian. And this is why we grow in our life to become a better loving person who learns to love others, resembling our Heavenly Parent.

Your friend, Elisabeth Seidel

Love Letters for Valentine’s Day

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During the 40 years of our married life on the earth Dietrich and I wrote many letters to each other, and we kept them all. They reveal the story of our life together, the romantic beginning, the hard struggles, and the true love centered on God that deepened over the years into an eternal, sacred bond.

For Valentine’s Day this year I want to share some excerpts from our letters:

To Dietrich:

“When you looked at me for the first time, I could see God in your eyes. There was so much understanding, goodness, and very deep love. I was so moved at that moment. How happy God must feel when He is at the center of a family. God can express Himself fully through a family, and that man during his lifetime must experience three kinds of love. It will be a wonderful adventure together to reach perfection!”

From Dietrich:

“You are more in my thoughts than my studies, and I still find it hard to fully get back to my class schedule. It feels to me that Heavenly Father performed one of His miracles to brings us two together. My whole outlook on life is changed since I became a married man.”

When we visited our families in Europe, mine in France and Dietrich’s in Austria, we faced many difficulties.

To Dietrich:

“My heart was so very painful the whole day and I know your heart was too. One thing for sure is that our ancestors have to unite together too, and this is a very difficult process. The fights are not only between both of us but between different nations.” 

 Dietrich’s encouraging response:

“We both know that we will find ourselves closer to each other if we both serve the higher purpose. … So much I wish we could always be deeply united with the love of our Heavenly Father. We have to determine every day to walk the path of restoration together and this way unite our family, our ancestors, and our countries. I will be with you in your prayers. I embrace you with all my heart.”

Before he passed, Dietrich told me “I will be always with you, forever together.” And it is true – sometimes I receive a hug from him in the eternal realm!

Please enjoy this recording of a talk I gave about our love story. Click this link or click on the image below to play the recording.

Your friend, Elisabeth Seidel

It is a Good Year

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Today is a good day!

The art of communication: to have listening skills can save the day. It can even save your marriage.

Listening to someone’s grievance eases the heart and heals the emotions.

Reading my memoirs, the first day I met my husband I wrote: We talk, talk, and talk!

Communication is the key. We feel valued! We feel loved! Appreciated! Needed! We belong!

Words have energy. Let’s choose our sentences carefully. Let’s speak beautiful things. Let’s convey God’s deep love for us everywhere we go.

Our Heavenly Parent has also the heart to communicate with us, encouraging us in this new year 2024!

It is a good day today! It is going to be a good year!

Your friend, Elisabeth Seidel

Thayer Lane, Where the Moon Is My Street Light

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Thayer Lane in winter

When we moved to our new home there were no street lights on Thayer Lane. There never will be.

The nature, the evergreens, the night sky, the shiny bright stars, the North Star, the constellations, and the universe are there for all of us. Besides, among the celestial planets, when there is a full moon, it is as bright as it can be.

If you could see with spiritual eyes, you would see the warm fire of our hearts reaching out to each other and to God, love being the fastest of all, reaching across the oceans and mountains to illuminate, encourage, and heal those who have been wounded by angry words, irresponsible acts, means actions, bad choices, immoral behavior, and all the ugly things. If you could see with your spiritual eyes, you would see that there is a safe place with a loving couple standing before God, making petitions for others, and bringing them together as an extended family, to reach a new level of understanding and happiness, fulfillment, and accomplishments.

Our house wrapped in a rainbow

Joy is to be found and elevated to a new world where God lives. The knowledge of God is the greatest knowledge of all. God’s creation, all of nature, teaches us so much about how to live harmoniously with God and with each other.

Your friend, Elisabeth Seidel