Father! As individuals who have been born into a relationship with the historical course that Korea has been walking, we know that we must become substantial beings of hope who can shoulder the destiny of this nation.
This nation has had such a miserable and pitiful history. Please look down on and take care of the miserable history of these people who could not look to anyone, who could not depend on anyone, who lost track of the direction you were leading things, and who had to struggle and fight on their own. We have come to realize that you placed your Will in the history of this nation and behind these people are traces of your warm love.
We need to realize how much our ancestors intended and longed for the coming of the day when the hope of this nation would be able to shine forth like the bright light of the sun rising each morning.
Father, please remember the many patriots who were concerned for and worked for this nation. They hoped that your desire would shine forth, but the days that it could have shown forth, they spent in frustration, and they lived through a history of sorrow which saw the sunset, and they met the night together with tears and darkened hearts which could not be fathomed.
We know that night will not continue as it is, but rather morning will come.
And we know that these tiresome times no one wants will all pass away, and a historical new age of light will come to the heavens and the earth.
Please protect this nation. When we consider that the time is coming when we must greet a new spring day, and determine a new mental reformation from the realistic point of view of determining an external standard, we earnestly hope and desire that you will take responsibility for the future of these people.
For us to inherit as our central undertaking the things that you are taking responsibility for, please let us be able to pledge before you, Father, and please let us become sons and daughters who are believable and upright in your sight, and please let us stand before you in ranks that can go forward towards the new world and the new Kingdom of Heaven. We earnestly hope and desire that you will allow us to inherit everything.
Father! The place where we gather now should not be a place of loneliness, nor should it be a place of sorrow. Please let us become an organization of destiny, a place where you always are, a place about which you cannot help but be concerned, where we live with you and go with you.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of our True Parents. Amen.
Dr. Sun Myung Moon
