Prayer for Resurrection by Reverend Sun Myung Moon
Oh, Father! We know that the ideal world of the original creation which you desired is a place centered on your love where true children and true families can feel joy, and all of creation can be harmonized and joy overflows.
Beloved Father! The flow of history was sorrowful at times and happy at times.
Father! Thank you for having protected the destiny of this nation.
Beloved Father! We have understood what kind of world you desire. We have understood how the love that you want must go.
Father! Each time we bow down and pray before the majesty of our sacred Father, the more that we consider the fact that you are not joyful, there is no way to keep ourselves from feeling ashamed and remorseful.
We know that it is the common course of humankind to come and go here and there on the earth while alive and then without fail to have to go.
The multitudes who should have praised your glory of the ages should have lived together with you, together with your glory, embraced by you.
From every aspect we look at, we know that the present is that kind of time.
Whether we look here or look there, we have come to understand that we have nothing to present before heaven and be proud about.
Please allow us to realize, Father, that you are not desiring any external form; you are longing for and looking for hearts and minds that adore you and that have been awakened to their original selves deep in their innermost hearts.
We cannot help but feel that those of us who have bowed down before you have found the path of life after having wandered around here and there.
Father! We are exhausted from sorrow and exhausted from difficulties, and we are struggling and don't even know which direction to go.
