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.
Even though we often think centered on ourselves, each time we discover that we have hesitated to think centered on you, Father, we come to determine that we will have to have sympathy for your lonely situation of having to save not only individuals but individuals connected to families, societies, nations, and the world.
When we think that what you are longing for about our world is the country you have hoped for, the people you have hoped for, the family you have hoped for, and the many people you have hoped for, we feel that you have a mind to embrace all of humankind and to love them like the people of one nation.
We are individuals, but going beyond the individual we will have to long for the family which you are seeking, and going beyond the family, the tribe, going beyond the tribe, the people, going beyond the people, the nation, and going beyond the nation we will have to long for even the world. We must determine once again to become people who know how to follow the example of your holy mind and self which are seeking everyone from the individual up to the world, and we must always know how to look up to that standard of longing.
We must not become people who are like lifeless sticks and stones, and who do not even know how to lament over how pitiful we are when we are like that. If we have feelings and emotions in our minds, we must become sons and daughters who know how to experience and squarely face the fact that you have come to us like this with amazing content.
Even when we go through difficulties we must realize that we are not alone in the midst of them; rather, we are there together feeling lonely. And even when we experience sorrow, we must feel that we are not alone in our sorrow; rather, you are together with us in sorrow. And even if we end up alone in a position of anger and unjust suffering, we must feel that yweare in that kind of position, too.
We must realize that this is the mind felt by people going the path of filial piety, and the mind that can be possessed by sons seeking the position of filial sons. That is why you have stressed a ith based on experience. We earnestly hope and desire that you will allow us to experience once again at this time that we need daily lives in which day by day we experience and learn through the course of our emotions that you are alive.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the True Parents. Amen.
Dr. Sun Myung Moon
