Now That It Is Over, We See That Everything Was Love
I rushed forward grateful for having become like that, and now I have reached my old age and am nearly 70.
Prayers for the Heart by Reverend Sun Myung Moon
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I rushed forward grateful for having become like that, and now I have reached my old age and am nearly 70.
Beloved Father! We know the regrettable fact that you were not able to able to accomplish your great work of creation on the earth.
Father! Committing historical sin, humankind has driven such nails into your heart, and has wounded your pride and your personality in ways that are unforgivable.
Beloved Father! We know that the Unification Church has remained up to this point due to your love.
Father! We have come to realize that the path you are going is a path of suffering we cannot even imagine; it is a path of humiliation; it is a path of grief-filled restoration.
I have gone forward experiencing the position of sorrow and feeling the heart with which you have faced this world of enemies.
Oh Father! Please break all the arrows of evil that have flown our way until now.
My Father! I know that you, Father I am calling out to you have been so wretched.
Even the hearts of parents of the fallen world feel more love in their minds after spurring on their children than they felt before spurring them on, and want to comfort them.
Who has understood your heart, and who has understood your situation, and who has understood your hope when you could not help but go forth enduring days of sorrow as you groped your way through the long history filled with grief?
Oh Father of great love and exceeding goodness!
Until now we thought that you were a being of joy surrounded by glory.
We cannot help but report to you once again at this time that we are ashamed before our father who has worked so hard in order to realize the Will.
Father! Today please allow all of our thoughts to move, our minds to move, and our bodies to move in the garden of your heart.
Father! Please allow us to experience heaven through our hearts.
Father! If we are sorrowful, we want to be sorrowful holding on to you.
Father! Even if we say that in the course of history humankind has struggled to find you, until now there have been no people on earth who have lived attending you.
Because of the Fall, our sense of being able to communicate with your heart left us, and our mind which could love all things through experiencing your heart was no longer with us.
Oh Father! Our grief-filled history has wound itself around us and is moving us along.
We long for the day when we can live together with you.
e know the fact that because of the fall of the original Adam and Eve, who were to attend you, that until now history has been a course of sorrow.
Please bear with these disloyal, unfilial children who have forgotten a thousand, ten thousand times that this kind of historical anguish remains.
Father! Having been swept into the death realm of sorrow and lamentation, we are unfilial children who cannot form our destined relationship with heaven.
We know that Jesus and God had no respite from sorrow as they related to humankind.
We realize that we have gone forth in such a pitiful manner until today.
Father! Each time something sorrowful happened on the earth, heaven was sorrowful, too, our ancestors were sorrowful, too, all the things of creation were sorrowful, too, and today we are sorrowful, too.
At this time please allow us to come to understand your heart which was so sorrowful.
Furthermore, we have realized that your situation is difficult and miserable, and we have realized that today your hope is remaining in front of the earth, humankind and heaven.
You were not able to love Adam and Eve with a mind of love which penetrated your heart.
Father! We know that a person who does not desire to bow humbly while attending you will not be able to form a relationship with you in the eternal kingdom.
We know the fact that the concept of creation is not to seek only a specially determined individual; it is to seek all humankind.
Father! We do not know the original heart of our Father who created humankind, and we know that we have not been able to feel our Father's love which can cast out sorrow.