Today as we unworthy people come before the amazing will of our Father, first we must clearly realize that we are inadequate and we must feel deep in our flesh and bones that we are fallen descendents who do not dare to stand before heaven.
Whether we look here or look there, we have come to understand that we have nothing to present before heaven and be proud of.
The blood lineage that has come from our ancestors is a lineage that has betrayed you, and even all the prophets who inherited the flesh and blood of our ancestors could not be embraced in your broad bosom of love through your heart of eternal and joyful love because they had the bitter root of sin. Therefore today we too know very well that we are people who are not proper to be approved by heaven.
When we come to understand the unjust fact that we beings whom you created as extremely holy are living on the earth with aspects and elements that you cannot help but dislike, we cannot help but lament bitterly. Now we vow that we must push aside, step upon, and mercilessly cut off this horrible fact that the nature of evil and the elements of evil lie latent in our flesh and blood and every one of our cells. We cannot help but confess that we are grief-filled descendants who have not been able to form our destined relationship with your holy original nature and we could not inherit your original heart, your original lineage, or your original bones and flesh.
Amid people like us, where would there be sons and daughters whom you can raise and bless in the middle of that garden which you will leave as an eternal work? Nevertheless, please allow us to become sons and daughters who know how to bow down, lower our heads, and shed tears in the presence of your mighty grace which raises our inadequate selves to a position where we can be without sin by reducing it here and reducing it thereby establishing conditions of forgiveness and conditions of approval.
The more that we come to know heaven, we cannot help but realize that we are shameful beings about you, and the further we go, we cannot help but feel fear at revealing ourselves before you with bowed heads, but we know that this is the path of following heaven. We know that your sons and daughters who have gathered here today are not appropriate to be called your sons and daughters, but even so, since we know it is your will to not cast them away, please bend down and care for us.
Father, please cover all the flaws of these people who have lived in sinister places and have been wounded. Even though they are children with whom your destined relationship of flesh and blood has been cut, still we know that through their original hearts, they are in a position where you cannot say you don't know them, and therefore you seek to remember them as true children.
Father, we earnestly hope and desire that you will bless this day and remember it. 'today we are establishing this day as a new historical day, and we earnestly hope and desire that you will allow us to offer our bodies and minds and hearts to you, and that we will be able to be close to the justification of children and the glory of children. Amen.
Dr. Sun Myung Moon
