Father! Like orphans going back and forth, we do not know our purpose or our direction, and without even knowing what kind of environment we are facing, we are being knocked over according to the flow of history; and without being able to establish the center of our lives, we have been pushed and pushed along. We realize that we have gone forth in such a pitiful manner until today.
On the other hand, we did not know the fact that you held us even though we were like this; and when we were sad, you were sad together with us.
And we did not know the fact that you were the Lord who did not distinguish between night and day and worked so hard in order to seek us out when we were caught and groaning in the realm of death. Please allow us to realize that a heart of joy that can know and feel this kind of fact is more precious than communicating with heaven and earth.
Heaven does not doze off at the time we doze off, and does not sleep at the time we are sleeping. Please awaken this movement, and please guide these individuals. Since we have come like unworthy children in the presence of our Father who has worked so hard, please bear with us.
We did not know that you know each of our situations, that you are the Lord of those situations, and that you even bear with all the unbearable, difficult situations. Now we earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will allow this time to become one in which we place before you all the difficulties, sorrows, and worries that permeate our innermost thoughts, and we can change them and adopt yours.
We know the fact that our Heavenly Father exists who exerts himself for us and that an even greater heaven exists which is concerned about our lives.
Please allow us to feel awe as we relate to you, our Father, through our minds and bodies. Please reveal to us the heart of our father who has taken the position of being injured first before we were injured, and who when our bodies were exhausted and collapsing has held us, embraced us comforted us, and once again urged us on the way we were to go.
Please let us admit that until today we have lived by words alone. From now on please allow us to be able to know you and to be able to become one in heart with you as sons and daughters who can understand your situation. And from a position so firm that even if we wanted to fall away we would not be able to, and even if we wanted to be divided we could not, and there could be no being whatsoever who could separate us from you, please let us feel heaven's sorrow as our sorrow, heaven's joy as our joy, heaven's work as our work, and heaven's responsibility as our responsibility.
Today we know that, standing in an eternally unchanging position, we have taken a position as people responsible for having to fight with myriads of Satan. We earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will allow us to become sons and daughters who can experience the sternness of the fact that it will not do unless we stand in the position of sacrifices to save the whole.
Father! Please eliminate all the elements of our minds that are not proper, and we earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will allow us to be able to make the firm determinations and decisions that will allow us to become one with you and to harmonize with your internal character and your mentality.
Please do not let there be any sons and daughters who seek to fathom your nature through the concepts of their egos. Please allow us to become your sons and daughters who can appear completely adapted and harmonized, shaped as you have molded us, according to the desire of your will. If we have elements you cannot bear with, please eliminate them, and we earnestly hope that you will be seated and command us.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
Dr. Sun Myung Moon
