Beloved Father! Today, we are looking for families not so that we ourselves can live comfortably in our families; it is in order to take our families as offerings in order to find tribes. And we are not seeking to live comfortably within those tribes; rather, it is in order to take those tribes as offerings to find the people.
And we do not desire comfort in a central position within those people; rather, we seek to take the people as an offering in order to find the nation.
It is not to boast before all nations about that nation that we seek the nation in this way; rather, we must give this nation as an offering in order to find the world.
We have come to know the awesome fact that after finding the world, we receive the names of your sons and your daughters.
It will not do unless we are on the world level. Today, we have learned that what is being stressed in the Unification Church is the world level and the cosmic level, too. We must make a central, united family-level beginning that is able to connect to the heart of the cosmic ideology.
Today, we need a family that is able to represent a family of hope and a world of hope, and is able to awaken the world that has died, and is able to be the pivotal point of the world. Please allow us to become people who are able to have that kind of ideology and thought.
Then we earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will let us become a movement that can embody the value of God's sons and daughters who have never existed throughout all of history, and who have minds that are able to love the world more than any other people by having gone beyond our families and people for the sake of the world.
We must become sons and daughters who can receive love from you by having surpassed the duties of saints. We must realize that the family is more precious than the world, the individual is more precious than the world, and we must meet the day of victory in which we are able to be placed before the whole universe and be praised.
Jesus also said, "For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life?" Please clearly enlighten us to the fact that the position of receiving God's love in this way is the position of sons and the position of daughters which cannot be exchanged even for the world.
We must realize that in seeking to fulfill this amazing duty, it will not be just one or two times that we will have to determine to offer our lives. We must realize that we are people who must love the world more than our lives and we must love God more than our lives. Please let us realize that there is no way to go if we avoid this course.
The trials and difficulties that are approaching should not be received with discontent and complaint; rather, they should be absorbed with minds of gratitude. We earnestly request that you will bless us to be able to become sons and daughters who, while thinking from your position of the historical ages which were so miserable, praise the joy of today, and can give ourselves for the sake of history, and can create a new age.
We have prayed all these things in the holy name of the True Parents.
Amen.
Sun Myung Moon