We earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will lead our minds and bodies to the position of being able to be recognized as your body and limbs.
Many people are leaving and heading for the heavenly castle, but when we think about how many true sons and daughters are going while looking toward your heart, we cannot help but stand before you with minds that are worrying.
You have been calling us and seeking us for six thousand years. As the Lord of creation, you have called us and sought us personally, but when we think on our own about whether we have come before your knees as appropriate fruits of joy, we realize that it will not do unless we repent once again before you for all of the things we have done in our lives in the past. It will not do unless we also reflect on all our everyday actions. Please pardon that we are in a position where it will not do unless we repent while taking this opportunity today to look with melancholy at the totality of how we will act tomorrow as well.
The original people that heaven looked forward to were people of glory, and the people heaven sought were people heaven could be proud of; but today we could not become those kinds of people, and we have not become original true people whom you can call, Father. When we discover that we cannot help but feel grief about our selves, we earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will allow us to have at least earnest minds that repent that we have no honor before you.
Now we know that you are longing for true sons and you are longing for true daughters who can shed tears looking on this land while holding hands together with you, Father. We know that many people, even though they had held your hand, have gone out and turned their backs on you, and they think they have been forgotten by you. But today we earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will let us become sons and daughters who can remain and report our situation to you, and hold on to your hand, having offered our lives and commanded our bodies with sincere hearts that are heading towards heaven.
Even though many people resent heaven, exclude heaven, and stand in a position of betraying heaven, we earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will allow at least us to become sons and daughters who seek the day of rejoicing in which you can find joy, and who have unchanging hearts.
Please do not let us become people who move through our minds alone.
We earnestly hope and desire that you will let us become sons and daughters who can reveal your glory by offering our bodies as holy, living sacrifices to you, Father. We have come to know that the original homeland which you have left behind remains only as an ideal. We earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will now allow us to have your heart in ourselves and to come to know that the responsibility and mission of accomplishing that ideal on the earth in reality remains.
You have gone forth to save our unworthy human selves. Now please do not allow any changes in our minds which are praying, as we head towards the one final day of victory, and while earnestly hoping that you will not allow us to stand in the position of children lacking filial piety, we have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the Lord.
Amen.
Dr. Sun Myung Moon
