Oh, Father!! The way that you must go is the way of the wandering stranger who must pass through the individual, the family, the people, the nation, and the world.
Since we must have true children here who can become sons and daughters of filial pietycourse about our Father, who is going that way and who can guard that path of yours, oh Father, we earnestly hope and desire that you will bend down and extend your concern to us.
We must follow the path of the cross of the family, which you are going, and we must follow the path of the cross of the tribe, and we must follow the path of the cross of the people. We must take the course of the cross, this wonderful task of the restoration of the nation, up through the restoration of the world and furthermore, the cosmos.
In going that way, it will not do to have you lead us. Please allow us to become people who are loyal followers and filial sons of heaven who can stand before you and say, “I will carry the cross which lies before you.” We know that it will not do unless we become like that. Since we have learned we must be like that, we earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will allow us to become sons and daughters who can do that.
Now the thing most precious to us is going the way that you are going together with you, and living on the stage of life where you are living, and dying along the way that you are going. We earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will allow us to become your children who know clearly that this is the purpose of our lives, and this is our greatest joy as human beings.
Now our minds must become empty. We must offer ourselves completely before you as empty vessels. Please let us cast aside our dominion over ourselves and all of our ardent wishes for ourselves, and please let the center of our minds be filled only with your ideas and thoughts.
And earnestly hoping that you will allow us to begin once again in your presence as new beings whose minds arise from you alone and whose minds can take dominion over our bodies, we have prayed all these things in the name of the True Parents. Amen.
Sun Myung Moon