Beloved Father! We know that the Unification Church has remained up to this point due to your love. We have wrestled with the problem of how to apply the principle of love to the circumstances of our daily lives and how to apply it to the course of indemnity. In that there was sorrow, there was suffering, there was mistreatment, and there was misery, but when love appeared and love was realized all those things turned into praise.
We know that the Unification Church has remained until now because those incidents became stimulating things to be remembered and because we have lived a history in which we could absorb those things as things to be grateful for. From the day that this child standing here came to know about the inner realities of history no one else knew about, I have believed in this way, and while going this way, and while achieving things, I have fought and offered everything because of your love, and for the sake of your love.
And I come to feel that it is all due to your love that we have this kind of substantial foundation today and that we acanstand today having a mind that, while standing in the anguished position of the vanquished, relates to the world and the cosmos not with lamentation and disappointment, but rather with a mind that on the contrary relates to the world and the cosmos as objects of hope and wants to love them more.
We know that everything exists because of the purpose of love, and everything moves because of love. But to increase love, we must become people who know how to prepare an original attitude in which we see, feel, move, and go forward on our own. We do not know whether something starting because of us and occurring because of us will become the Kingdom of Heaven for the nation or ourselves, but when we consider that it could not be the Kingdom of Heaven for God and humankind, please allow us to understand that that kind of place could not help but be a place that is separated from heaven and close to hell.
Therefore, in the world of faith, arrogance has been considered an enemy; stubbornness has been considered an enemy; insisting on an independent position has been considered an enemy. We earnestly hope that you will allow us to become sons and daughters who can apply all these works and traditions of the heartistic principle in our lives and realize that this alone is the reason for having taught that God is love, and God's sons and daughters are loved.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the True Parents. Amen.
Dr. Sun Myung Moon
