Father! We went forth thinking that the path you were calling us on was not difficult, but we have realized that it is difficult, and we thought it was a path of joy, but now as we go along it, we realize that it has peak after peak of tears.
Father! If we are sorrowful, we want to be sorrowful holding on to you. We have realized that it is easy to be disappointed after holding on to people and feeling sorrowful, and we have realized that to go ahead and believe people is to be hurt. It is you who have not changed, Father. How joyful a time it must have been for Jesus to go to the mountain to hold you and weep!
We want to become true sons and daughters who know how to weep for our Father, people who know how to hold on to you and weep, and who know the heart of our Father who first pioneered this path and raised Jesus in front of humankind because the road of life is lonesome and lonely.
If we have realized that before we felt any anguish, heaven has suffered everything unjustly, and been persecuted cruelly, and been beaten cruelly, then how can we excuse ourselves before heaven? Since we have realized that before heaven we have no condition to be sad centered on our own selves, please have mercy on your sons and daughters here who have been placed in that situation.
Father! We know that before we wept you wept first, and before we were struck, you were struck first. And we know that before anything happened to us, it happened to you first. And we know that before we were in pain you were in pain first, and we know that before we fell, you fell first.
Knowing that, though we silently head towards heaven again and again, discovering how inadequate we are, we bow our heads before heaven, and we wonder how much you must have longed for sons and daughters who can call you "Father." Please allow those kinds of feelings to move in our hearts, and when relating to this nation, when relating to the world, when relating to heaven, please let those kinds of feelings move us.
Only when we are moved by those kinds of feelings can we say we have confident faith from the individual up to the world-level ideological realm?
And to establish our ideology, we know that we must be in the position of heaven with the greatest heart. Therefore, we earnestly ask you to please raise our minds to be able to go forth and pioneer a path for this kind of environment.
We earnestly ask and desire that you will allow us to become children who can critique our forlorn selves as we go along the road humankind must go, and live intoxicated by you, and bow our heads and raise your glory, Father, assessing highly our having formed a relationship between ourselves and heaven.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
Dr. Sun Myung Moon
