Now We Go Your Path With All Its Twists And Turns, Father

The more we think of how many twists and turns there must have been along the course of restoration, we cannot help but think that there remain many paths with crises of the heart that we must go.

We know that there have been so many twists and turns along your course and that your situation has been so miserable because of the sin of our ancestors. The time has come when we must tread upon and go beyond all the grief of Golgotha which is due to the mistake of Adam and Eve.

Having followed the path that you walked, we have found that it was the path of the cross. But, having followed that way which no one else knew about, while struggling with the heart of the pioneer, we have found that this way is not the way of destruction.

People ridiculed us, but you encouraged us. Many people opposed us, but you comforted us. We know that so many times you counseled us, saying, “I am with you, and the billions of saints in the spirit world are protecting the way you will go.”

To greet the dawn of tomorrow, it will not do unless we gropingly find our way along the path of darkness even in the midst of chaos. Because we know that we can greet the new dawn only if we pass through this path of darkness, until now, the Unification workers have gone forth fighting, groping along this path of daybreak which others despise.

You know that when we shed tears along this course, we wanted to be together with you who were shedding tears, and when we shed sweat and went hungry, we were struggling to establish the day when we could comfort you for the course of toil you have gone through.

Please let us become people who weep out of concern for God, and who leave behind the grief-filled past as a memory.

And we earnestly hope that you will please let us become your sons and daughters who can struggle and fulfill completely our duty as sons and daughters of filial piety, having forgotten our miserable and pitiable selves of today, while longing for our father of hope who smiles looking for the goodness of tomorrow, and who liquidates the grief-filled memories and the past days of grief that he went through.

We have prayed all these things in the name of the True Parents. Amen.