Father! Having been swept into the death realm of sorrow and lamentation, we are unfilial children who cannot form our destined relationship with heaven.
Therefore please allow us to become people who are able to cope with our original natures and who are in awe over the grace you have given.
We earnestly hope and desire that we will be able to attend you, Father. From the time that we knew about the path that you were calling us to go, we knew that you were together with us along this way of tears, and we knew that you were together with us on the way of the cross, the way of suffering, the way of sorrow, and even on the way when we were bound in chains. And we know about the path of thorns you will tread in the course of history as you work behind your beloved sons and daughters.
Now that we know about the history of struggle that you have gone through repeatedly for our sakes without our knowing it, as we imagine the countenance of our father who has worked so hard, even though we are now bowing down to you, we hardly know what to do or say. We earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will capture our very beings through your heart of inspiration.
We have been called because the will of heaven exists, and the desire of heaven exists. Therefore, please allow us to understand that the way of the cross that is approaching us today is not because of us.
Please allow even 10 million years of our descendants to know of the path of the historically destined relationship our ancestors worked for. If we have minds that are able to embrace unlimited joy, unlimited happiness, and unlimited hope, that reality did not begin because of our own selves, nor is it due to any human being.
Rather, we earnestly hope and desire, beloved Father, that you will allow us to become sons and daughters who know how to cherish deep in our minds and bodies the fact that everything began in heaven, and everything moves out from heaven, and who know how to long for the foundation that heaven has moved and cling to it and weep.
Father! You know the direction that we will go, and you also know the path we will choose to walk. Our minds do not begin from within ourselves, and our being placed in advisory positions is not for our selves. Then, if it is for others and you, Father, we earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will take dominion over our hearts and not let them change to the very end.
Father! Please do not allow us to become people who are unfilial to you and leave during the time of suffering that remains. Even if we feel the sorrow of our fFatherwho has carried out the providence, please do not allow us to become sons and daughters who cannot make it through this difficult period. We earnestly hope and desire that you will let us become sons and daughters who cast aside ourselves and are concerned for you, and who know how to comfort your heart and understand your situation.
At this time in our minds, we are not asking for anything that is not of you. Now we must walk beyond today's suffering and look towards the garden of promise, and we must long for the Kingdom of Heaven of eternal blessings. We know that the blessings of God which will appear are a position of inexpressibly great glory.
Therefore, today please allow us to become a movement of people whose hearts do not change about you and who endure and remain to the end. We earnestly hope and desire that you will allow us to become sons and daughters who can fight to the end and stand before you, Father.
We have prayed in the name of the Lord. Amen.
Dr. Sun Myung Moon
