The hope that our minds have been longing for is the garden of the ideal of our eternal father. All our bodies have been longing for is to reach the day when we can speak with pride in front of our Father in the glory of victory after fighting with Satan. Then our minds would be filled with the glory of our Father, and our bodies would resemble the external form of our Father.
We earnestly hope and desire, beloved Father, that you would please allow us to appear in glory; and allow our minds and bodies to become the objects of your joy.
We are those who should take on the external form of sons and daughters of that kind of victory, but with our minds in front of your glory and our bodies in front of your internal character, please let us reveal everything about ourselves. We ask you to please fill us with awe and lead us to be able to reflect on and repent about our inadequate selves of the past.
Father! If we truly admire your love and desire to resemble your character, then we know that your present anguish must become ours, and your frustration must become ours. Therefore, beloved Father, please work to make us like that.
Oh, Father of love! Among us are there any sons or daughters who, although they know their minds and bodies are going the way of darkness and death, are not yet able to repent? Oh Father, please show your capabilities. Oh Father, please show your power.
Oh Father, please bring about your work of resurrection and re-creation. In that way please let our minds and bodies have the ability to rush towards and enter your heart of infinite love. Beloved Father, we are earnestly hoping for and desiring this.
Father! Please let us realize the fact that as time passes, the day of the final battle is coming right before our eyes. Please do not let us become people who lose heart on that battlefield. Beloved Father, we earnestly hope and desire that you will please let us become the elite troops of heaven who will go forward and fight and fight again until we have established the one standard of the final victory representing you, Father.
Until now you have been sad together with us; you have fought together with us; you have gone through difficulties with us. Now since we know that there is a new battle left for us to fight while looking towards your one day of hope, oh, Father, please act by giving us limitless ability so that we can win that battle, and please do not let us prove inadequate.
In that way, these people can be embraced by your heart of love, and through these people please let the many people on this earth be able to greet your glory daily. And through humanity may one, not two, worlds be realized, harmonizing with even the millions of saints in heaven.
We earnestly hope and desire that you will act so that we can realize quickly here on earth a newly restored garden where we will praise your glory and experience your love.
We have prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
Dr. Sun Myung Moon
