When we think that so many complications remain for heaven because of our being descendants of sin, who have not been able to remove the traces of death, we do not qualify to give you assurances, suggestions, or pledges as we greet the New Year once again.
But because there remains peak after peak of the grief of restoration so that we must pledge and go, and pledge and go again, we feel that it will not do unless we make a new pledge from daybreak before we see the sunlight of the new morning of brightness once again today. Since we pledge that we will fulfill the mission of the pioneer, the responsibility of men of vision, and the responsibility of people in the vanguard while representing this people and all humankind with new hearts and new minds in this new year, please allow this pledge we have made to move heaven.
Please let us become new selves who can have the authority of love with the power of heaven, each time we face the forces of darkness. And by establishing the light of this pledge today, please allow all of the 365 days of one year to become like this day today.
Please let these new decisions and new determinations of this year become the foundation of your glory, and please let us become the helms of the sailboats crossing the rivers of suffering in this world of death. Then as for reaching that blessed land, the garden of hope you desire, we earnestly hope that you will not let us suffer any losses or feel any difficulties.
Since at daybreak, too, there are family members who are facing this place while embracing your Will and calling your name, please embrace them.
Please let the new light of brightness dwell with those people who are greeting the New Year with hearts filled with tears. We earnestly hope and desire that you will allow your day to come in which light shines forth and the foundation of your glory is raised high.
Please pardon the sins of the past of these people through the Unification Movement. Considering this people, please forgive the sins of all the people of the world. Considering the people of the world, please pardon the sins of all the sad spirits in heaven and earth. And please forgive the sins of our ancestors who have come and gone from the past until now.
Please watch and protect us until we andtheses people reveal your day of glory as the light of life in all the nations of the world. We earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will let the day of victory which remains to come to us quickly, and the dangerous conditions of the battle which remains to disappear through the light of life.
Hoping that your glory will fill the cosmos and it will be together with the blessed couples, this person, le, and all of humankind, we have prayed in the holy name of the True Parents.
Amen.
Dr. Sun Myung Moon
