Oh, Father! We know that we have come to stand in this kind of position not because we are so outstanding, but rather it is because behind the scenes our good ancestors paid a terrible and amazing price of blood, sweat,t, and tears.
When we think that we have received the grace of being able to meet with you in this kind of position in the destined relationship of the present age today because of that, we must truly, truly thank you.
Father! How very much you must have looked forward to this age! How very much you must have longed for the family you desired! And how very hard you must have worketoto embrace your children!
When we think about these things, we cannot help but worry that our not being able to offer you more brilliant, more valuable, more glorious selves will become not just the grief of one generation, but rather the grief of thousands of years.
Father, your having gathered these childlike people together like this is not because they are outstanding in themselves; rather, it is because they have precious historical destined relationships. Therefore, we hope that you will mobilize their ancestors and let them cooperate and not rest about their urging forward the mission of this age.
Today, please let us realize that we are carrying on each of our shoulders the serious mission that the heavenly fortune is hoping for, representing our tribes, and representing our people. We know well that it is our responsibility, our mission, and our duty, that we must fulfill, even if we die, we who pride ourselves in the name of the true family members.
Thee mission of the Unification Movement is the resolution of the three great griefs: the grief of Jesus, the grief of humankind, and the grief of heaven, as elderly people who are old, as the youth who are young, and, it goes without saying, as men or women, young or old.
When we think that the infinite world is moving in order to be included in that value because that value is infinite before we call out to you, we must feel filled with awe and we must feel a sense of being sorry, such that we cannot even think of the name, "Father." We did not know until now that you are a Father who is difficult to attend, and you are a Father who is difficult to call.
You have a warm mind iaboutus, a mind of broad and deep love, and a heart of forgiveness, and you do not lament your billions of sacrifices; rather, you worry over our inadequacies. Each time we discover our inadequacies about your grace, which is like that, we will have to be filled with an apologetic mind and an awe-stricken mind.
If we could receive the glory of victory in that kind of position, receive your love as sons, and receive your love as daughters, what more could we want as human beings? Please allow us to realize that a position where that can happen is a position of more precious value than any kind of value represented in human history.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the True Parents.
Amen.
Dr. Sun Myung Moon
