In this historical age of great grief while not knowing what you were like, this unworthy son discovered you, and from the day that I came to know you, the days have continued into days where I have not been able to stop the tears from flowing from my eyes. I rushed forward grateful for having become like that, and now I have reached my old age and am nearly 70.
In the prime of my life, I burned up all the vitality I had and attended heaven, and the time to return glory to heaven passed. Since the day I was driven out as one rejected by the people, as a rebel against humanity, I thank you that you have let the Unification Church endure and go forward until now through the heavenly principle of being struck without saying anything and then taking things back.
I, too, had not known this, and as a man with a character who doesn't like to lose to anyone, when I reflect again on the historical age in which I could have struck at and punished my persecutors, I came to know you who are so expansive and great and who have endured amid situations of anger and indignation.
Having followed that relationship and aspect of yours I have come forward to this point today. But each time I think of pitiful heaven, because I know how many tearful, incredible situations there have been, I thank you today for having come over peak after peak of that difficult path.
Father! You were loved. You, who put me behind steel bars, prepared for me the standard of a situation filled with joy, and when I think that it was in order to give me a position of inheritance in order to give me blessings, now that it is over, I see that everything was love, and was the touch of your expansive generosity. 1 offer gratitude when I think of that.
We have offered up everything in this prayer in the name of the True Parents. Amen.
Dr. Sun Myung Moon