Father, who created all the things of heaven and earth for your glory! Please allow us to feel once again that your heart of hope, joy, and love fills all of the things of creation. Please let us become sons and daughters who can realize that there is not one single being that your hands have not touched for the sake of that lofty and precious hope. Please do not let us forget that there was that kind of day of joy when you created all the things of creation for your eternal nobility and glory, and all the things of creation came into being to be held in your bosom of grace.
Please do not let us forget that there was a foundation of eternal love, a foundation of eternal happiness on which you and all the things of creation, having joined into one, could have lived, and could not have been separated even if you and they had wanted to, by your having established the source of eternal life and the authority of eternal life.
Having all things filled with the hope you anticipated, the glory you hoped for, and the love you looked forward to eagerly, was your hope and the purpose of creation, but who could have even imagined that that hope would bear fruit of sorrow and despair? Who could have known that you who should receive glory would be in the regrettable situation of being ridiculed by your enemies?
Who could have known that, despite having to reveal the glory of victory and praise the glory of heaven and praise the glory of the earth in front of your infinite love, with tears of sorrow we would shed blood and our flesh would be ripped, for the sake of the historical course of the restoration of grief? In this way today, there is no place on this earth for the world of hope to go, and in heaven and earth this kind of foundation has disappeared without remaining anywhere, and it has become filled with sorrow. When we come to know that, we, who imagine your mind today and who are feeling your heart, cannot help but be bitter about the past days, and we cannot help but sneer at the miserable history of humankind.
Please let us realize how regrettable a fact it is that we are in this kind of position. Even though this is the universe you wanted to embrace and these are the children you wanted to love, today the things of creation all over this earth have become symbols of sorrow, and the people are descendants who have betrayed your love and are descendants who have trampled upon your foundation of heart. When we come to know this kind of fact, please let all of your young children who have gathered here at this time, feel in our minds how precious a thing is each one's responsibility of having to comfort your sorrow, and please let us be able to pledge that we will become beings who acancomfort your sorrow and repent for all the sins of the past on bended knees.
While earnestly requesting that you allow this heaven and earth to become a happy one where we can live with and attend to our original father, we have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the Lord.
Amen.
Dr. Sun Myung Moon
