Father, when we think about how hard you worked in order to cause this Unification Church to progress on earth, we cannot think about it without tears.
Until standing in this position today, I have not requested any kind of glory. I have not had any mind to want to brag, to excuse myself, or to put myself forward and advertise.
But one thing I am afraid of... I have said that I have gone forth following your Will until now in my life of scores of years, and with a mind that laments that, while going through the past, present, and future through positions of holding the new historical responsibilities, there has been no person who shed tears while embracing your heart in the past, and with a mind that laments that there is not a person like that in the present.
I am not ashamed before you, Father, because to establish your authority, it is evident that you gave up human authority, and to establish your prestige and dignity, I gave up completely any kind of location, any kind of environment, and any kind of position.
You know that very well. In relation to the historical course where I struggled, saying I would find the way of matters that one of the people of the world had gone, you comforted me in every case, and held me in every case. I cannot forget the voice of my Father who encouraged me, saying, "There is no one on the earth who is more lonely than you who are going this way. But there remains more loneliness that you must go through."
Each time the sound of opposition became louder and I collided with the complicated environment around me, the more I shed tears in the midst of that, and the more I was in places where I vomited blood, I embraced those tears, and I embraced those streams of blood.
Please allow your sons and daughters who have gathered here to realize the fact that those matters about which I struggled, saying I would not become a person who resented you, while looking up at heaven, and shedding tears, are what have raised up the Unification Church of today.
That is because we knew the situation of our Father, who could not speak.
It was as though his stomach was cramping and as though his breast would rip apart. You know very well that we are sighing sighs of grief since we could not resolve all the origins and circumstances of the matters of thousands of years, and even today, we still are not able to resolve the origins and circumstances of those matters about which we could not help but determine to fulfill our duties of loyalty and filial piety to you.
Please bend down and gaze upon your sons and daughters who express these minds completely; who resolve those kinds of hearts; who can boast of victory in all nations as your sons and daughters; who say they will fulfill the duties of loyalty and filial piety; and who bring about the day about which you can boast, the day in which you can rejoice, by greeting the day that they can praise for eternity.
I thank you that you have not cast me away even though I was in a miserable position. And because those who have gone forth following behind this lonely person are certainly lonely people, since you have protected them with a tear-filled breast, we cannot help but sincerely thank you who have worked harder than I have.
Even if this kind of heart goes beyond the people and goes beyond the destiny of any satan of the world, we want to be proud that it is the source of life that we alone have; it is a pride that we alone have; it is an asset that we alone have.
The things that we are hearing around us inspire our minds for a moment, but please do not allow that to end. And we earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will allow this to become the motivation for a new promise which can make us determine once again that we will fulfill our duties of loyalty and filial piety, and we will promise tomorrow to you once again by regaining the motivation of life and the source of life.
Please allow this to become an opportunity for your children here to go back home with a new fire of life in their breasts while heading to the new world.
And we earnestly request and desire that you will let them become your children who can struggle, saying that they will acquire gifts that they can bequeath to their descendants by fulfilling their responsibilities of today, and which they will be able to boast about before the later generations, by their having accepted this son as a living testimony.
Now, throughout the time that your beloved son is staying, please personally take dominion over everything. And please let this movement become one that must absolutely exist in relation to resolving your grief and accomplishing your wish on the earth by widening the foundation of victory through adding still more of your blessings and protection to the way that the Unification Movement is going.
If you need us, please send us into a position of tears, and send us into a position of persecution. We earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will please let us become the elite troops of heaven, and that you will please let us become sons and daughters of heaven who cope with the mission of world history, and who can carry out the holy thought of Jesus who prayed for his enemies while dying on the cross and was able to ask for blessings upon them by representing you in a position of being trampled upon and driven out, and by representing the people.
We earnestly request that you will let us fulfill all kinds of duties of loyalty and filial piety to have the heavenly Will remain, which can be raised forever and ever, and praised forever and ever, as a mission that goes through the tribe, and is not just a mission in relation to one generation, which can be left to our descendents and our world, and that, as individuals, you will let us attend you as our Father, by quietly keeping all these matters deep in our breasts forever.
We have humbly prayed about all these matters in the holy name of the True Parents. Amen.
Sun Myung Moon