FATHER! PLEASE BEAR WITH OUR UNWORTHINESS
Father!
Since many members are thirsting for life and
have gathered here before this altar,
please allow them
to represent your glory, and
representing the altar of joy
please let them know your deliberations and dilemmas,
and please allow them to
be able to experience your heart.
We know
that you are in a position where you can not help but believe in
these insignificant beings as you relate to them,
and we know
that you are in a position where you can not help but
carry out your works through them.
Even though we know that up until today
heaven has been in a position where it must believe us,
believe in and establish us,
we ask you, Father, to please bear with
our faults of the past which made
you unable to believe in us.
We humans beings have not been able to fulfill our responsibility
to become people you can trust, so
Father,
we earnestly hope and desire that
you will bear with us at this time.
Please allow us to become those who
believe you and trust you, and
can give up our lives for you, and
can honestly offer our daily lives to you.
My beloved father,
we earnestly hope and desire that
you can take us as sacrifices proper for you to accept.
Oh, Father!
Since you have called us who are so unworthy
from among so many people,
please accept us
and embrace us with your compassionate love.
We offer our minds and bodies to you, so
please allow us to experience
your mind which is worrying, and
our beloved Father,
we earnestly hope and desire
that you will allow us to become
children who are able to accept and carry out your desire.
Your heartbreaking situation formed throughout six thousand years
has continued until today, and
when we consider your history
of lamentation which has continued until today,
and consider that today, we ourselves
are the very source of your lamentations,
we ask you to please bear with us.
Please make us into the realizations of the life and the idea you desired, and
we earnestly hope and desire that you will make us into
roots of life which can give you joy.
We have humbly prayed in the name of the Lord. Amen.
(May 23, 1956)
PLEASE ALLOW US TO BECOME
LIVING SACRIFICES OF GOODNESS ALONE
Oh, Father of love!
Oh, Father of compassion!
By ourselves alone,
with just our strength, we can not possibly
separate goodness and evil
and raise goodness up to be goodness.
Therefore please reveal the power of goodness which heaven has sheltered
and the power of love which heaven has hidden, and
please work through the power of resurrection.
Please allow us
to be able to reveal a power capable of being good
even in our unworthy position, and
our beloved Father,
we earnestly hope and desire that
you will allow us to be able to
have the glory of resurrection,
and to be able to bow before you
having given our minds and bodies fully for you
and to be able to reveal glory having spent our minds and bodies completely.
Father!
Please purify our minds, and
please work with your purifying touch
in the soul of each one here.
Please reveal what is in the mind and body of each one, Father,
and purify each thing.
Since it will not do unless all the improper elements
are divided out and cast away,
oh, Father,
please personally become the master of separation
and the master of our hearts.
I earnestly hope and desire, my Father,
that you will allow us to be able to
separate good and evil and then do away with evil and
to be able offer ourselves through one center
before the majesty of our father
as living sacrifices of goodness alone.
Oh, Father!
Please allow us to recognize the unworthiness of our selves
in front of your manifested external form, and
to discover that our selves are in the realm of death
having received the power of the sins of the past.
In front of you, Father,
in front of the altar of the glory of goodness,
please let us be able to reveal ourselves and
please eliminate any improper habits from the past
and any concepts which keep us from believing you.
Please allow us to receive a new stimulation of goodness and
to feel anew the value of your internal nature
and to feel an impact in our minds and bodies, and
we earnestly hope and desire,
beloved Father,
that you will carry out a work of repentance and inspiration.
Father!
Please accept us and take dominion over us.
Please don't allow even one person among us
to be dominated by Satan.
After going through your almighty works and
your works of efforts for recreation,
we earnestly hope and desire,
Father,
that you will allow us to cast away the force of today's habits.
Please eliminate at this time, Father,
all the unacceptable, improper elements of sin,
and by personally intervening
please act to fill all of us
with only the elements of glory which you can take dominion over,
and we earnestly hope and desire
that you will completely take dominion of us.
We humbly pray this in the name of the Lord. Amen.
(July 11, 1956)
SINCE WE WILL HUMBLY TAKE ON EVERYTHING,
PLEASE GO AHEAD AND ACT
Father!
Please you alone protect everything, and
you alone take over and take dominion.
Please let this become a time of
knowing that not even our lives are our own, and
not even our knowledge is our own, nor
are all our concepts our own.
Please allow us
to be on the move only if heaven is on the move and
to decide something only if heaven decides
as people who have entrusted ourselves only to you.
Please let us understand that
even if a concept is considered outstanding in the world,
it can not avoid the destiny of heaven.
Please let us realize that the
ignorance of the world has penetrated this land,
and please allow us to understand that
the shadow of sin
has formed a relationship with the entire world.
Beloved Father,
we earnestly hope and desire that
you will allow us
to be awakened to our unworthiness
and to be inspired by the movement of heavenly destiny
and to feel awe-stricken as we deal with the whole.
Father!
Please command us.
Please advise us and
tell us what you want.
Please reveal the power of resurrection,
and allow the power which can push aside
the wall of darkness which is blocking us to explode.
We earnestly hope for and desire this.
Since the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak,
please reveal a power which can go beyond this weak body, and
please move according to the authority of your touch,
and please allow us to be able to
truly accept being moulded by your touch,
by the blessing of recreation which you shower upon us.
We earnestly hope and desire,
beloved Father,
that you will allow us to become gentle, humble people
who can be moulded into an external form of glory.
Since today you have called
us who are worthless people,
please allow us
to be able to fulfill your desire.
Please allow a living altar to appear
for the sake of finding a way for this pitiful people to live ,
this people who are in the midst of distress,
who are dying.
Please place our individual beings in front of you today, Father,
and allow us to stand in a position of being able
to receive answers to our questions, and
please allow us to be
capable of receiving and carrying out the mission heavenly destiny asks of us.
Please allow us to be able to fight with all evil
and separate it out, and
please allow us to separate good and evil
and to stand in the position of goodness.
Please allow us
to believe that Satan's evil will be liquidated, and
things of goodness will remain, and
please allow us to become
those people who enter on the straight way
and live in the midst of your glory.
We pray in the name of the Lord. Amen.
(July 19, 1956)
PLEASE KEEP US AND TAKE DOMINION OVER US
We are praying earnestly to you, Father.
First, we know that our minds and bodies must become sacrifices
like the gold, frankincense and myrrh given by the wise men from the east.
We know that it will not do unless we become sacrifices.
Please allow us to offer our minds and bodies.
Beloved Father,
we earnestly hope and desire that
you will not allow us to become abominations
before the altar.
The more that we understand what you have chosen as
your purpose of goodness and righteousness,
and the more we think about your having
once again sought out our unworthy selves,
we can not help but be contrite about our insufficiency in relation to you.
We have let go of all our rituals, concepts, and insistence on ideology, and
since we have bowed down before you,
Father,
please help us.
Father!
Please take responsibility for everything.
Please receive our minds and bodies completely and take dominion over them,
and please allow us to become
people who are able to
embrace the history of six thousand years and
comfort your anguished heart.
Beloved father,
we earnestly hope and desire that
we will be able to unite, and as a unified sacrifice
be able to bow before you in joy together with the many saints,
and that you, the Triune God,
will take dominion over the entirety of our minds and bodies.
Father!
Please take pity on this people.
We know that you have toiled through the long course of history
in order to be able to love this people.
We know that when you chose us in order to reveal your will
you had toiled in ways known to none.
We know that the enmity of this people
has penetrated into heaven, and
we know that the enmity of all humankind on the earth
has also penetrated heaven.
Since we know that heaven is lamenting because
there is no one to become a sacrifice
representing the anguish of heaven and earth,
please allow us to become sons and daughters
who entreat you to resolve in your stead
the enmity penetrating the entire universe today.
We earnestly hope and desire,
Father,
that you will allow us to become sons and daughters
who will come forward and fight Satan in your stead.
Please allow us to be able to sing your blessings
unified around your one will
by bringing our minds and bodies into harmony.
And we earnestly hope and desire that
you will allow us
to be able to bow before you
in gratitude for your blessing of liberation.
We have humbly prayed in the name of the Lord. Amen.
(December 12, 1956)
SINCE WE HAVE REPENTED FOR OUR UNWORTHINESS,
PLEASE ASSERT YOUR DOMINION OVER EVERYTHING
Beloved Father!
On this lonely course of restoration
which can not help but be gone whether one wants to or not,
who is there who will shoulder again
the burden of the destiny caused by the fall?
Through the fall of our human ancestors,
you came to embrace grief early, Father.
And enmity remained in the minds and bodies of humankind.
And we know that
through the sinful history of unfaithfulness of the Jewish people
this enmity
came to affect the entire world.
At this time when heaven and earth are permeated
with complaints over this enmity
we earnestly hope and desire that
you will open before us
the path for us to go.
In order to go the path you will lead us on,
first we must find a place
where our lives can be at rest.
After that
our minds and bodies must become your place to find peace,
and then
we know that your love which we long for
must dwell in our minds and bodies.
Oh, Father of compassion,
Father of love,
benevolent Father,
oh my Father who has worked so hard to reveal your will,
please reside in the midst of us!
Since we have come before your knees, ashamed, Father,
with our defiled minds and bodies just as they are,
please bear with us.
If you do not bear with us,
if you do not become our standard for going forth,
then there is no one more pitiful than us.
Oh, Father!
Because you have been our eternal ideal,
our eternal hope, and
our eternal life,
and you know the situation we are facing today and
the entire will we are hoping for,
it will not do unless you appear to us
and take dominion personally.
First,
please allow us to become
people with elements of the original nature and essence
which can receive your dominion, and
please allow our minds and bodies to be able to be captured
by your words of bidding and your work of construction.
And then
in front of your glory,
please allow to be revealed your direct works of power
which will make us unable not to surrender
even if we don't want to.
And we earnestly hope and desire,
beloved Father,
that you will take dominion over all our minds and bodies
and that you will remove from us
the roots of sin which you can not endure.
Since the waves of death are trying to sweep us away,
please block all those things.
And if personal enmities have permeated us,
please remove them.
Are there any minds, or wills, or thoughts, or
insistence on ideologies left
which are centered on ourselves?
Oh Father,
please appear as the reality of power and
please only you take dominion and assert yourself,
and mould all our minds
so that we may be able to resemble your external form.
We earnestly ask you to allow this,
and we have prayed these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
(March 3, 1957)
PLEASE ENLIGHTEN US IN THIS HOUR
Father!
We know that
at this time
it will not do
unless our minds and bodies resemble you completely.
So please embrace us to your eternal bosom
and in order to realize your will,
please let us inherit your heart which has loved billions of people.
And please allow us to realize that
this is the time when we must appear
with hearts like yours.
This land
is the land where you toiled and shed blood,
and because we know that this land is
the land where humankind went the difficult path of the cross,
the land where the people of the world went the course of Golgotha,
Father,
please lead us to come to realize by ourselves
what kind of situation we are facing today.
If we are going to acknowledge that we are following
the footsteps of Jesus' 30-year life of suffering,
then please lead us to clearly understand
what kind of environment we are living in and
what we must hope for and desire.
At this time when the remaining battle of the cross
has come right before our eyes,
as individuals
we know that we must have hearts
which are aware that they can push aside all these sufferings and enmities,
so, Heaven,
please have pity on us at this time.
Please lead us to feel our unworthiness, and
guide us to feel our inadequacy by ourselves, and
we earnestly hope and desire that you will allow this time to become
a time when we can shed tears of anguish in front of you, Father,
lamenting our own our incompleteness.
Asking you to take dominion over all things,
we have humbly prayed in the name of the Lord. Amen.
(March 10, 1957)
FATHER! PLEASE GRANT US YOUR LOVE AND THE GRACE OF YOUR COMPASSION
Oh Father of compassion!
We earnestly hope and desire that you will bear with
our situation of not being able to think of
the authority, honor or situation of our Father
who has such an aching heart, but
rather we are living by receiving the power of your compassion.
Since we, who are here on this dark earth of death,
know that without grace and the power of life,
we would never be able to offer
the glory of victory
to you,
oh Father,
please allow us your promised grace, and
we earnestly hope and desire that
as you carry out the providence you will reveal your entire will and
that you will reveal it to us.
Inadequate as we are
how dare we show ourselves before you?
How could we raise our heads before heaven?
Even if we died a hundred million times,
we are beings who deserve it.
We are held prisoner by the chains of sin,
and are people who deserve to go through the suffering of the judgement.
Therefore, we hope for your merciful love
and hope for your grace, and
since we have prostrated ourselves before you
with minds that report truthfully on their own,
we have laid out before you everything that we have.
Please allow us to do away with anything that is not proper,
and to maintain the mentality you grant us,
and we earnestly hope and desire,
beloved Father,
that you will guide us to be able to appeal to heaven
for your mighty grace.
Father!
Please take pity on us.
In order to find and go this way which others deny,
we remember times that filled our minds with sorrow,
and we know that there were times filled with worries and trials;
accordingly, Father,
even if this is a position which others deny,
may the grace of your recognition alone
pour down on us.
Beloved Father,
we earnestly hope and desire
that you alone will embrace us,
that you alone will comfort us, and
that you alone will counsel us.
Among ignorant humankind
if there is a person who can understand the anguish of heaven,
oh Father,
even if he were struck with the distress of anguish a hundred million times,
we know that he would be victorious without fail.
Please let us be sons and daughters
who experience your anguish
through our minds and bodies, and
please let us experience the concern your heart felt
when dealing with the earth,
and we earnestly hope and desire that
you will establish us as sons and daughters
who can fulfill our duties.
Father!
Please do not let us remain, in our ignorance,
in a position which can lead to ruin.
Father,
we earnestly hope and desire that
you will give us the grace of
being able to wait impatiently for your love and compassion alone
and being able to eliminate the stronghold of evil
by exploding it ourselves.
We earnestly ask that you will allow
our minds and bodies to be captured
by the grace of your love
and the will you have bid us.
We have humbly prayed in the name of the Lord. Amen.
(April 14, 1957)
PLEASE LET US HAVE A UNIVERSAL IDEA AND TRUTH
Oh Father!
Please don't leave us only to ourselves.
We know that this world
is an environment of failure
where humankind has walked a historical course.
We know that faith alone is not enough,
nor are we alone enough.
We hope that you will let us have a universal ideology and truth
which will allow us to find the origin of our lives
and to transcend ourselves.
And at the same time that we have truth,
we know that we must establish a standard
where heaven can be present with us.
Please guide us to be able to go forth
from the position of being able to call you "Father", Father,
from a position of knowing that completely
through a course of absolute faith.
Jesus told us
to seek him through the relationship of the bride and bridegroom.
Internally it is the heart which can understand circumstances, and
if it is the word which allows circumstances to be understood internally,
then please let us understand the word
and through that word, please let us know truth and heart.
We earnestly hope and desire that
you will allow us to form a relationship,
Father,
which through a heartistic ideology
allows us to know even your heart.
Father!
Today please do not allow us to remain
in our terribly narrow circumstances.
Please don't allow us to become foolish and
lose the totality of our value
by leaning towards small works.
Please allow us to see
your greater heavenly nature
while we adore your greater grace.
That nature has not yet appeared
in any form on this earth.
And if heaven is hoping to reveal that nature
through us,
please allow us to move and go forth before you
with a bit greater standard of faith
and a proper mentality and feeling.
And we earnestly hope and desire,
Father,
that you will guide us to be able to fulfill that responsibility.
Father!
Please pour out the final grace that you wish to allow at this time,
and through sacrificial lives,
as the sons and daughters of our father of glory,
please let us receive
our eternal father's entire ideology of faith
as the ideology for our daily lives today,
and we earnestly ask you to guide us
to become victorious people who are able to be proud in front of all people
of having accomplished that.
We have humbly prayed these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
(September 8, 1957)
FATHER! PLEASE BECOME OUR CENTER
Please, may your deep internal nature of love
be present in our minds and bodies.
Since we have been embraced in your bosom,
Father of love,
please pour out upon your sons and daughters
the joy of love which is hidden in the fullness of your life..
If it seems we are not able to experience your preciousness and
your heart, Father,
we know that we will not be able to erase
all our relationships of sin which are not proper,
oh Father of compassion,
now in this one moment
please allow us to be submerged in your love alone, Father,
and please allow us to give our full devotion
to your providence.
My Father,
we earnestly hope and desire
that you will allow us to become loving sons and daughters
who adapt ourselves to your having dominion, and
whose minds can experience the original will and
can feel the original heart, and
who can more than fulfill our entire responsibility
which has been established on the earth.
When we walked along rugged paths until today,
when our hearts were sorrowful,
we know that
you were sorrowful before we were,
and even when we were lamenting on our own in the pits of despair,
we know that in our stead you were reflecting on all our sins
and you were fighting in our stead
in the instances of Satan's accusations.
We earnestly hope and desire
beloved Father,
that you will allow us to feel in our minds and bodies that
even if we offer our entire mind and body
as a sacrifice to you at this time, Father,
there is no way we can repay
the grace of our Father who has worked so hard until now.
Oh Father!
From among many people,
you have called and raised up our unworthy selves.
How dare we present ourselves in front of you
who have called and raised up this people,
from among the many peoples.
We have nothing to be proud of.
Now what we want is to become people
who are able to feel anguish together with you when you feel anguish, and
who can feel joy when you feel joy, and
whose minds and bodies explode for the will
when you desire it.
Father, please protect us.
May you alone be our center,
May you alone be our Lord.
Even though we have nothing to be proud of on the earth,
and the place we are standing is a lonely place,
since we know that the path we are on is rough,
Father,
please accept us and take dominion.
Even if we collapse in the battle of the Last Days,
please be comforted
through the sound of our voice calling, "Father."
Since we are your sons and daughters
who have received the counsel of your love, and
have determined and pledged
to go out and fight again,
Father,
please do not turn our minds and bodies
over to Satan.
Please embrace us in your realm of love, and
we earnestly hope and desire that
you will hold and lead us to the end,
Father,
so that through us you will be able to
realize the garden you desire and
bring into being the day when all people can rejoice.
We are earnestly hoping that you will allow us to remain
as centers who can be proud in relation to your will,
and who can become like light in relation to your will
when we offer everything we have now.
We have prayed in the name of the Lord. Amen.
(September 22, 1957)
PLEASE ALLOW YOUR WORK OF SANCTIFICATION
If it were not for you, Father,
we could not be comforted.
And we know that you can not allow us
your glory.
By any chance are our minds moved by sin
and sometimes asserting our selves?
We know the historical truth
that acting centered on oneself
became an act which betrayed the moral laws of heaven.
Accordingly we lay everything out before you
and earnestly hope and desire,
beloved Father,
that you will allow us to receive the grace of sanctification.
And then
please allow our mind to manifest itself as your mind
and our body to manifest itself as your body.
And please let the desire you have
take the place of our desire,
and today please allow our fighting minds to be together
with your mind which is fighting for the will you desire.
And we earnestly hope and desire,
beloved father,
that you will give us the blessing of being able to
serve your one will alone
with an indomitable spirit.
Until now the lives we have lived have been worldly,
and we know we have not been able to come out
from the midst of the falseness of sin.
Now please allow us to find
absolute value which transcends time and space,
and through one center
please allow us to offer everything we have
to the will through which you seek to reveal that value.
We earnestly hope and desire that
you will allow us to establish a reciprocal standard
where our minds can be harmonized in front of that will and that
we will be able to have the joy of being able to sing
in the midst of heaven's glory.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
(October 20, 1957)
PLEASE GUIDE US TO BE CHILDREN WHO FIGHT WITH SATAN AND ARE VICTORIOUS
We know that
because humankind is living buried in sin
it is easy for us to consider everything centered on ourselves,
and it is easy for us to establish wills which are not the Will
and to follow them as if they were the Will.
Oh, Father,
please make us completely realize that we are like that.
Then please allow us to establish complete centers for ourselves
and to go forward
on the path our your eternal life.
And we earnestly hope and desire,
beloved Father,
that you will allow us to become sons and daughters
who can fight with Satan and go forward
rejecting everything
for the sake of the will you alone desire.
We still do not know
where the standard is
which can guide ignorant humankind.
We know that there have been many times
we have worried about ourselves and prayed.
Oh, Father,
please make us realize how unworthy we are.
We earnestly hope and desire,
Father,
that you will guide us
to be able to go forward to the final point of victory
following the laws of the principle.
We know that
at this time, too,
Satan is confusing us through intrigues and slander
in order to block the blessings you want to give us.
Oh, Father,
please lead us to be
those who can push aside all those things
and fight with Satan and go forward.
And furthermore,
we earnestly hope and desire,
beloved Father,
that you will allow us to become your sons and daughters
who are able to form an intimate relationship with you
within the realm of the providence and go forward.
Furthermore, since we have to face the last days,
please allow us to have a new sense of discrimination
which can distinguish all things.
Please allow us to realize that everything in the environment
centered around ourselves is something to test us.
And please do not allow those things to become Satanic elements.
We earnestly request and desire,
Father,
that you will guide us and protect us
so that we will not be unworthy to reveal your glory
by our selves treading upon and going over those things.
In order to find and establish the day of victory
which can reveal your glory, Father,
at this time please allow us to be able to
have in our minds and bodies
the power and strength which can face Satan and
fight with new resolution and determination.
We earnestly hope and desire that
your infinite love and care
will be revealed to all the people of the earth
and to this country and this people.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
(November 11, 1957)
PLEASE ALLOW US TO BECOME ONE WITH YOUR MIND
We know that if
your mind and Adam's mind had become one,
and your will and Adam's will had become one,
today's anguished history with the two worlds fighting
would not have happened.
Today your anguished and sorrowful mind
is in our minds.
Our original minds recognize this, and
only the fallen nature, which is centered on itself,
is denying that this is true.
Since we know that we are always facing
this kind of battle between our original minds and evil minds,
please allow us to control our own minds ourselves
and become one with your mind, Father.
Since the time is coming near for the struggle
of having to control our own wills and
become one with your will,
oh Father,
please bear with us
if we have a mind which can not become one with you.
Please allow us to make efforts
to forget everything and
to become one with your will and mind alone.
We know that a mind which is one with your mind
could not be exchanged for hundreds of millions of dollars.
Therefore we earnestly hope and desire,
beloved Father,
that you will lead us to be able to
fight and go forth, and
hold on and go forth
to attain that one thing
even if we have to sacrifice everything.
Father!
This time now is a very difficult time,
and Satan
is blocking our minds which want to become one.
Therefore we earnestly hope and desire
that you will allow us to establish
a new condition of sacrificing ourselves for others
for the sake of establishing your will.
We earnestly hope and desire that
you will allow us to be equal to the
providential history which can broaden the glory of your will
and that we will be able to fight while looking up towards your will.
We earnestly hope and desire that
you will please allow us to
realize our desire
for our minds and wills
to appear as one before your altar
as another condition for a relationship with you
and as a condition to subjugate Satan.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
(November, 10, 1957)
PLEASE ALLOW US TO FIND THE TRUE PATH
EVEN IN THE MIDST OF CONFUSION
This time now is
like the time when the Israelite people were in confusion 2,000 years ago,
the time when the messiah had to come.
We are now facing such a time,
and we know that we are facing a time
when it will be difficult to discriminate between
what is true and what is false.
Until now there have been many teachers who worked hard
in the course of past history, and
we have followed many leaders, but
today we have lost the center of our minds which we should depend on.
We know that you know that
today humankind is facing a confused living circumstances.
Therefore, Father,
please control our lives, and
please control our minds, and
please control our ideas
so that we may have a joyful time
when we can live depending on our natural disposition.
Today
as we live in such a confusing world,
please allow our minds and bodies to spread this idea.
Please let our bodies witness to it through our daily lives, and
please allow us to be grateful in our minds.
And
we earnestly hope and desire that
you will allow us to be able to receive
the blessing of being your sons and daughters
who have fulfilled the mission of restoration,
and be complimented as the sons and daughters you desired.
Father!
Please supervise our minds.
More than anyone else, our minds
know better the way we must go.
Since our minds
desire to go along the original true path,
Father,
please grant to us the truth and the religion which are
able to realize our mind's desire, and
please guide us
to be able to accomplish the will of the providence of salvation.
Since the entire religious world
is divided into many denominations, and
is in confusion,
Father,
please take pity on it.
We know that the problem here is not
which religious body, or which group, or which denomination.
Therefore we earnestly hope and desire,
Father,
that you will allow us to understand that
the main point of truth and the entirety of truth
is having an internal heart which you are able to recognize
and going forth with an earnest heart
which can experience your mind.
Now even if we run into adversity,
the time is near when your will must be realized.
Therefore, please allow us
to go through the adversity and
to have minds and bodies which can see your glory.
And
we earnestly hope and desire that
you will guide us to become your sons and daughters
who even alone win over adversity
and while worrying about your heart, unknown to others, raise up an altar,
and offer everything
in order to resemble your mind
and in order to experience your heart.
We have humbly prayed in the name of the Lord.
(May 18, 1958)
PLEASE LET US OPEN OUR HEARTS
AND FEEL YOUR EXISTENCE
Father!
We know well that
without even knowing the direction they must go,
many people have struggled along the terribly anguished course of history
in order to find you.
You appear to exist,
and then seem not to exist.
You seem to be living together with history,
and yet, Father, we have not been able to have a clear understanding
that you really exist.
You seem to be together with our minds,
but with deeply sorrowful minds, we are looking at you
as our father who can not establish regulations like a real being.
We know well that
you created the entire universe through an idea of goodness,
and you gave humankind a true conscience,
and you gave us the amazing blessing of being able to experience
that idea of goodness through the faculties of intellect, emotion and will.
And
we also know well
that the fact can not be denied
that the nature of your existence
comes to be felt within the time limits of a certain age.
Each time we long for your internal nature which comes to our minds
we can not help but be captured by an anguish
we ourselves don't understand.
We can only lament over the wretched appearance of our selves.
We know that you have lead us into this situation,
as a historical, heartistic action
to lead us to eternal life.
We want to know you, Father,
who behind the scenes in history
sought us through your heart and mind
in order to arrange history into one realistic ideology.
We are eagerly looking forward to
establishing your mind
as the ideology for our lives and our daily lives.
But
because we do not clearly know the value of your existence
we do not know the value of our daily lives, and
without knowing the value of our lives
we are faced with the wretched situation
of having to struggle today and tomorrow.
Therefore please take pity on each of us
who are wandering on the brink of death.
Now, Father,
we know that the time has come that it will not do unless
you stretch out your hand of love.
That wave of love
will have to reach the situation around us
and even into our hearts.
We know that this is the time when we must restore
the authority of your heart
the leading authority you alone have.
We know that we will reach
the time when we must fight centered on mind,
so please allow us to become people
who have tolerance and can open our closed minds.
The time has come that we must become
sons and daughters who are ready to
bend our bodies and bow before you.
Therefore we earnestly hope
that you will allow us to become people
who see your outstretched hand manifest before us
and that you will allow us to be able to hear
the voice of our father who is knocking at the door of our minds.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
(January 18, 1959)
FATHER! PLEASE TAKE PITY ON US
Oh Father!
Please take pity on us.
Without your grace
we are pitiful people who can do nothing but die.
Father,
we earnestly hope and desire that
you will not cast us aside and leave us,
but will embrace us in your bosom of mighty love.
Until now your sons and daughters who have been following
have not thought this path of struggle was difficult,
but if it were not for your love, we could only have wandered,
so please take pity on us.
And please embrace us in your mighty love
and please let us be able to experience
the grace of glory which you permit to us.
We know that everything centered on humankind has an end, but
every act centered on you continues forever, Father.
Therefore, we earnestly hope and desire,
Father,
that you will remove everything centered on humankind and
allow only things centered on you alone
to appear out of the gardens of our hearts.
The more our earnest minds search for you, Father,
and the more we long for your internal nature
and as we desire more to go closer to your mind,
there are many times we forget the fact that
your great love is here among us without our knowing it.
Please do not allow us to forget
the fact that you are always together with us,
to say nothing of when we are busy or in a hurry,
and we earnestly hope and desire,
Father,
that you will not allow us to forget
the fact that you are always living together with us.
Father!
Please look upon us with compassion.
Please take responsibility for our lives
and take responsibility for our hope.
If you would grant your hope to us
please grant us
the strength to be able to fight together with you
until we make that garden of hope our own.
And we hope and desire,
beloved Father,
that you would protect us so that
we do not become exhausted in the battle with the enemy.
Since our hands and feet have been wounded
while we made our way through the world of death,
at this time we earnestly hope and desire,
Father,
that you will join hands with us and embrace us.
Because we know that if you say you do not know us
there would be no one more wretched than we are,
Father,
we earnestly hope and desire that
you will please hold and comfort us.
If it were not your command
we would not have been able to give up even our lives, but
we have followed the command you have given and gone forth
because it is called a true path.
Therefore, Father,
we earnestly hope and desire
that you will not cast us away but rather embrace us at this time.
Father!
Please look upon us with compassion.
Please allow us to feel to our very bones that
if it is not you, nothing will be accomplished, and
if it is not your will, it will not be accomplished, and
if it is not your work, it will not be accomplished.
We earnestly hope and desire that
you will allow us to keep in our lives
the work that you left,
the will that you left, and
the hope that you left, and
that you will allow us to fight to the end, and
to appear as your high-spirited sons and daughters.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
(March 22, 1959)
PLEASE SEEK US REACHING OUT WITH LOVE
Greeting the holy day
we come before your being, Father, with bowed heads.
Oh father of love,
father of compassion,
father of magnanimity,
please bear with us.
Our minds
want to resemble your mind, and
our bodies
want to resemble your external form.
We are not able to accomplish that because we don't know how.
Therefore please inform us through our minds
and give us experience through our bodies.
We earnestly hope to be able to bow before you, Father,
as those who have taken the example of your internal nature.
If it seems there are sons and daughters who are not proper
before your will
please seek them out personally and instruct them.
Our ears are dim, and our eyes are dim.
We do not know how to hear your words,
and we do not know how to look upon you.
Please let us sense in our minds and bodies
that having to make us hear and having to make us see is
more sorrowful for you than for us, and
more heartbreaking for you than for us, and
more frustrating for you than for us.
You have beckoned to us hundreds of millions of times, but
we did not know how to respond, and
you called out to us tens of thousands of times, but
but we did not know how to hear you.
Then how could we not be ashamed to stand before you?
Even so we hear your voice calling us to come, and
even so we know that you are beckoning and calling to us,
and we fall down on our knees.
We are the pitiful people among the pitiful.
We believe that you know that
we are those who more than anyone else have no place to depend on.
Therefore even though we appear crude, you will have to
seek us out and hold us reaching out with love.
Our eyes are dim and our bodies wounded, and
even though we are in a position of
not being able to know the essence of life,
Father,
please embrace us personally with love.
We earnestly hope and desire that
you will stop our tired footsteps,
turn our minds form dejection to joy,
and comfort us.
Even as sorrow is handed down
we know that it is because this is a fallen world
that you are caused to feel sorrow.
Satan is blocking our path, and
because you know that he is sweeping away the world
through the power of death,
you did not leave the responsibility up to us,
but have taken on the responsibility alone
and have gone forward facing and fighting the enemy, Father.
The more our minds revere you as that kind of father,
the more your mind will want to
forgive us and forgive our faults.
We earnestly hope and desire,
Father,
that through that heart,
you will once again seek us out.
We regret having become sinners, and we weep.
Our hearts are indignant hearts and our tears are flowing, and
when with earnest hearts our minds repent,
we realize that you have borne with us for 6,000 years, Father,
and today at this time also
you seek to relate to us with a heart of compassion.
Please knock on the doors of our hearts as we weep.
Please remove
the thoughts and assertions of all the ideologies
which have been stained by sin until now.
And please let us sense your life
in our minds and bodies.
We earnestly hope and desire
that you will allow this to be a time when
we can experience heaven's heart of painstaking circumstances,
heaven's heart of love,
and heaven's grace of love which we have not been able to feel,
and we can form the kind of relationship
where you can call us your sons and daughters.
We have humbly prayed these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
(April 19, 1959)
PLEASE ALLOW US TO MAKE A NEW BEGINNING IN THE MIDST OF THIS NEW SHOCK
Father!
We have realized that when we are trying to think of a new work,
we are not able to even think about it
in the places where we have been doing things until now.
We have realized that
until we stop the flow of history and
take a moment when we can think
we can not awaken ourselves even though we want to.
We know that we can not be aroused
from this sleeping appearance
without receiving new stimulation.
Therefore, Father,
please continuously shock us anew
so that we may be able to put aside the historical relationships we have.
We know that we will not be able to be awakened
if we do not have stimulated minds,
therefore, please allow us to become beings who find such minds and
know how to respect them.
In each age you sent a responsible person
who could awaken us, Father.
You looked upon fallen humankind, and
since you held on with your sorrowful heart and let them live and go,
Noah lived and went that way,
and Moses, too,
and Jesus also did that.
Oh Father!
Please give us the shock of a new feeling
at the bottom of our hearts.
Please let us go beyond ourselves
and experience your sorrow, and
please give us minds which can be concerned for
the people which is being swept into the world of death.
If there is a person with this kind of mind,
he is a person who can obtain the liberation of the people,
and furthermore,
if there is a person who has a mind which is clinging to the world and
worrying about it,
he is a person who will obtain the grace of worldwide liberation,
and furthermore,
if there is a person who knows how to be worried about cosmic liberation,
he will not be ruined together with history.
We know that he is a person who will leave a new history to the world.
Therefore, today please do not let us become people
who reveal our feelings and cling to ourselves and cry.
We earnestly hope and desire,
Father,
that you will allow us to become people
who represent your earnest heart as you look at us, Father,
and please let us go towards the good which the whole is hoping for.
Please let us feel in your stead
the mind which was anxious that we might not follow and
that humankind might fall.
Please let us follow your example and
let us know how to look at the people
and look at the world
worried that those who are following might fall,
and worried that those who have fallen might collapse and die.
If there were sons and daughters who could look at you and say,
"Father! I am here, and I have taken responsibility for your heart,
so please rest,"
we know that kind of scene would mean that
history is going in a new direction.
Please let us become those people who know how to go forward
having made all sorts of preparations to be able to begin in a new direction,
and please let those of us
who should begin in that direction
who must awaken
make a new decision and determination and pledge in our minds
according to the appearance of the historical screams of misfortune.
We earnestly ask you to
let us become those who know how to be
awake as heaven is awake,
and sorrowful or joyful
together with the moral laws of heaven
and with history.
We have humbly prayed in the name of the Lord. Amen.
(April 19, 1959)
FATHER! PLEASE HAVE COMPASSION
Father of compassion!
Father of love!
If you just leave these pitiful people as they are,
they will never be able to get out from
under the shadow of death.
What is there for those of us in this situation to be proud about,
and how can we come before you saying we are right?
What do we possess
that we could come before you defending ourselves?
We have nothing.
The only thing we have is our inadequacy, and
the only thing we feel is our awe-stricken mind.
Therefore, please have compassion,
Father,
for these people of death
who are hoping for your compassion,
your benevolence and your mercy.
All of us are looking towards heaven
eagerly awaiting for your hand to reach out to us.
Therefore, we earnestly hope and desire,
Father,
that you will have compassion for us.
The time of the providence is hastening the Last Days, and
the waves of death have swept around us
and without any exception seek to swallow us.
We know that you know we are faced with a chaotic environment, and
your heart which worries about us remains on this earth,
as do the footprints of your hard work.
We know that as you look at all this
you mind is inexpressibly anxious;
therefore, Father,
we earnestly hope and desire
that you will lead us and have compassion for us at this time.
If we have lonely hearts, let us empty them out at this time and
we must change them and take on your heart.
If we are sorrowful and have inexpressibly frustrated hearts,
we are in the pitiful situation of having to exchange them
for your heart of joy and life.
Oh Father who knows this,
in spite of our being those who should take responsibility in your stead
and relieve you of your difficult position,
rather you are taking care of our difficult situation.
And we earnestly hope and pray,
Father,
that you will bear with the fact that we are within the fallen realm
and have to receive strength from you again.
Father!
Please allow our hearts to be able to communicate with each other.
We, who have been languishing in the realm of death and
who had no destined relationship and were not acquainted,
have gathered together referring to each other as the members of one family.
Since we have gathered together adoring the idea of your heavenly
providence, Father,
we earnestly hope and desire
that you will have compassion and come to us.
Could anyone have confidence in front of you, Father?
Since you have said that you have confidence,
we have hoped to have confidence, too,
and since you have said that you feel this way,
we too hope to feel that.
If this is false,
Father,
please bear with us,
and we earnestly hope and desire that you will personally take dominion.
Even when coping with a sad situation
relating with humankind
your sons and daughters could not have a situation
where they could speak out their minds, and
even when faced with a difficult situation,
they had no family members with whom they could open their hearts.
We earnestly hope and desire
that you will take pity on them.
We know that in the world connected to your heart
we move transcending the distances of time and space.
Therefore, at this time, too, connected to that same heart,
if the mind of heaven moves
please let our minds be moved as well.
Please inspire us by reaching out with your grace for all,
and we earnestly hope and desire that
you will connect us to your heart again.
We have humbly prayed in the name of the Lord. Amen.
(June 7, 1959)
PLEASE LET US HAVE MEEK AND HUMBLE MINDS
Before we report anything to you, Father,
you already know our hearts.
Please allow us to feel that
this is a time when heaven is observing
everything about us.
Oh Father! You have gone through a historical course of such toil.
Today please appear right in front of us
and groom us through new words.
Please relate to us with a new heart.
We intend to sweep away every unfaithful aspect, and
with childlike minds
offer everything we have before you, our father whom we respect.
We lay down before you, Father,
all the rituals, ideologies and concepts of the world,
and we ask that you will allow us to have
meek, humble minds
like those of children.
May we have humble minds which are able to be moulded
as you would mould us and
since we seek to offer ourselves before you, please accept us.
May the Triune God act.
We earnestly hope and pray that
you will allow this place,
where we are bowing to you with rejoicing hearts,
guarded by heavenly forces and angels,
to become and altar of wondrous blessing
which can lead our whole lives to victory.
We have left everything up to you.
Please let us open our hearts and
all the ideologies we have before you.
We hope that in that way you will allow us to be able to
change everything we have into your things.
We have prayed in the name of the Lord. Amen.
(July 5, 1959)
PLEASE ALLOW US TO REALIZE THAT
WE ARE IN A MISERABLE SITUATION
Father!
We see that
although the many people living on the earth
are at the point of death, the present state of affairs is that
they are pushing themselves forward
and are busy bragging before the universe.
In this kind of world,
can one dare to be proud of oneself?
Can one assess one's own value highly?
When we recall our hearts and weigh them in silence
we will not be able to deny that
we are faced with a false situation.
Father!
Today what are our minds imagining,
and what are we seeking to rise up to?
The time has come that we must realize that
now our minds are not able to be ours
and our bodies are not able to be ours either.
The time has come that we must recognize
that we are in a miserable situation
where we can not put ourselves forward and be proud of ourselves.
We can not make the final decision
about the value of our minds and bodies.
Please allow us to feel how miserable we are
who can not lead even our own selves
to the goal through the course of the situation which has occurred.
If we have life,
it is not because of us,
and if there is an ideology which
leads our minds in the direction of goodness,
please allow us to feel the fact that it also originates
not in our selves but in something else.
Father!
Today please allow us to realize that
you are searching for a victorious person
who knows how to take mastery over his ego and
how to rid himself of the conceit
which made him want to put himself forward and raise himself up
and which made him intent on establishing and justifying himself.
We have humbly prayed in the name of the Lord. Amen.
(July 19, 1959)
PLEASE ALLOW US TO HAVE A SUBSTANTIAL FEELING
We do not want to believe in the Father of words;
rather we want to believe in the Father
who has created historical relationships.
We are requesting a direct relationship with us today,
a father with whom we can form a direct relationship,
a father who can speak to us directly.
Today humankind
believe in God as an objective being, but
today we are not requesting that God be the
kind of object of faith that they are seeking.
We desire
the God who is the substantial subject of our daily lives.
We are longing for the father
who can relate to all the realities of our lives and circumstances, and
from whom we can not be separated even if we tried, and
who dwells with us in every moment.
The hour realizing this kind of relationship on the earth
is the hour humankind is desiring and at the same time is
the hour God desires.
Today we
are conceptually thinking about what kind of ideal garden
the garden of hope which you desire would be, but
that is not our actual circumstances.
We know the fact that the time has come
that we must have the kind of concept of the Kingdom of Heaven
which penetrates us beginning with our minds,
and which through realization we can feel, and
which through emotion we can sing.
We know that
forming that kind of destined relationship
was the purpose of the providence of salvation,
the purpose of the history of restoration
and the purpose of the salvation of the cross.
Therefore,
please allow us to be able to
call you our real father,
and even if we determine ourselves and recognize ourselves
as your real sons and daughters please allow us to be able to sing
from a position of not being ashamed,
and to rejoice,
and to be able to hear you speak.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
(August 30, 1959)
PLEASE ALLOW US A FOUNDATION OF SECURITY AND YOUR OUTSTRETCHED HAND OF PROTECTION
Father!
Please particularly remember this time.
Please give your blessing to many human beings.
And among them, please give your blessing
to the many religious organizations calling your name.
Please especially bless those who are being cast out
as they cling to your heart.
And please bless
those who have gone out casting aside everything
in order to be a living sacrifice for heaven
not troubling themselves over blood, sweat and tears.
We believe that you will be together with them.
We believe that you will fight together with them.
Father!
More than anyone else,
more than any other people,
more than any other believers,
our minds want to live for you, and
we want to attend you, and
in your care,
we want to fight every battle together with you.
Among the many peoples, it was this people you called, and
among the many believers, we are the sons and daughters you called;
therefore please consider our minds trustworthy,
and we dare to ask you to come to us.
We have understood your command calling us to come, and
we have understood your will to send us out several times
telling us to pioneer this path.
We know that you have
counselled us when we were discouraged,
have told us, "I am here," when we were in sorrow, and
you have comforted us.
We know that you did so in the past,
are doing so in this moment, and
will do so tomorrow.
We know that
we can not form a relationship with you in a comfortable place,
and we can not meet you on a smooth path.
We know that this is because you still are not in a comfortable place, and
can not walk a smooth path.
Only if one seeks to take on your sorrow, Father, as one's own sorrow, and
seeks to walk your path of suffering in your stead
can one relate to you personally.
We have learned, realized, and experienced that
you can open your heart and speak your mind
on the foundation of a natural heart.
Those who follow your footsteps on the lonely path you are going
are lonely people.
We know that you do not distinguish day or night
to gather those who are in that kind of position
because you are that way.
Therefore please personally reach out and protect
your sons and daughters who have gathered together for the one will
and at this time have the same situation, same heart and same hope, and
we earnestly hope that you will move them onto a secure foundation
through the same grace.
We have humbly prayed these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
(November 6, 1960)
PLEASE BEAR WITH OUR MISTAKES OF THE PAST
Father!
Because we know that you did not cast away fallen humankind,
and we know the results of your hard work for 6,000 years
in order to reach and reestablish us
and we know your heart of compassion,
we have come before you
with a mind to bow down before you.
We know that you have an eager heart
which could not help but wander and search for us,
a mind which could not just throw us away,
and we have come before you today like this
calling you "Father."
Please bear with us.
We are inadequate
in view of your heart of longing for
eternal sons and daughters with whom your heart can communicate.
Please remember that
our minds are longing for you alone.
We earnestly hope and desire,
Father,
that you will see and consider compassionately that
in our minds our earnest, original hearts want to
relate to your internal nature.
Oh, Father!
This position where we have to long for
the world of your holy original creation has become a position of sorrow.
And furthermore, we can not help but think it is extremely deplorable
that we are in a position where we can not help but report truthfully
that we are so inadequate that we can not appear before you.
Now when we consider all the traces in the background of history
we understand that we were substantial beings of sorrow,
and pitiful beings who did whatever we pleased
in front of you, Father.
We can not help but feel pain in our hearts that
we were not able to appear at some point
as object partners of glory before you heart, or
to become the descendents of our ancestors
who could praise your glory, Father,
representing the entire universe.
Please bear with the sins of our ancestors,
and please bear with the pitiful situation of humankind today,
and we earnestly hope and desire
that you will bear with the fact that
people do not know they have the mission to prepare the foundation
for the eternal welfare of their descendents.
You have worked hard until now, Father.
Now through the Principle we have come to know that
our father is a sorrowful father,
our will is a sorrowful will,
our history is a history of suffering unjustly,
and our lives are lives invaded by Satan.
Thus, we can not raise our heads before you, Father,
when we think that we are still struggling
in the midst of an environment filled with grief.
Satan still has power on this earth;
an unrighteous environment remains on the earth, and
the dominion of evil is dominating the cosmos.
At this time when we are watching this reality
which is demanding the sorrow of heaven,
please especially have compassion for us
who are in the position where
we who are seeking heaven,
we who are praising your desire,
and calling your name,
have experienced our inadequacy and
can not help but appeal to you, Father.
If it were not for your power and your protection, Father,
we would not be able to remain here substantially on this evil earth today.
We are the inadequate people who would not be able to have anything remain
in front of the will of the providence.
In view of the fact that we who are like this
have come before you, and we are those who know our reality as it is;
please augment your heart of compassion one more time
and remember us.
Please call us to task for our lack of faith,
and counsel us to be able to relate to the path of loyalty and filial piety.
Please supplement our inadequacies, and
we earnestly hope and desire that you will
increase our power to be able to come close to completeness.
We have humbly prayed in the name of the Lord. Amen.
(May 22, 1963)
PLEASE ALLOW US TO FEEL DEEPLY ASHAMED
IN FRONT OF YOU
Oh merciful Father!
Please accomplish that which you desire and will
in heaven and on earth.
So many people have left your embrace
and still continue in their filial impiety.
Everyday we see them moaning in the valley of death,
unable to remove themselves from that environment even today.
and when we think about facing this situation which causes us sorrow
please allow us to become aware that
in front of you we are ashamed and there is nothing we can say.
Father!
You have carried out the providence until now
with the goal of a day of joy when
you can embrace all humankind and call each one your child.
But today on this earth
there are so terribly few children who can relate to your love,
and there is no one to inherit your entire providence of restoration
and offer loyalty to you.
When we think about these kinds of things,
we realize that even today
your sorrowful course remains before us.
Therefore at this time
please allow us to take ourselves to task again and
to discover that we are those who must go forth.
In this evil, wretched world
on this devastated earth,
the will of your providence is taking a new direction,
and we know that at the same time that it is your hope, Father,
to lead us without fail to the world of your will,
it is also the hope of all humankind living on this earth.
We also know that without finding the way towards a standard
where you and all humankind on the earth can become one,
we will not be able to bring this entire will and mission to completion.
Today you have raised us up
to have us pioneer the path of a new religion in front of this people, and
to present a new page of history in course of the world.
We earnestly hope that you will please allow us to become people
who know how to feel sorry and bow down
in front of your effort and hard work to establish
all the world level indemnity conditions on a horizontal level
in order to connect the past, present and future of life.
We have humbly prayed in the name of the Lord. Amen.
(October 17, 1965)
PLEASE ALLOW US TO BECOME AWARE
OF THE MISTAKES OF THE PAST
Oh Father who created the universe!
Please allow us to realize deeply at this time
how earnestly you hoped for the day
when you would be able to share your glory with all of creation.
You created Adam and Eve,
raised them in your embrace, and
by having them begin a life of eternal love
you sought to establish the welfare of humankind.
And we realize once again
that you are a father who hoped to find joy
through Adam and Eve as they grew.
Please let us realize once again at this time that
you, who had such an earnest hope,
lost Adam and Eve and
had to face a day of sorrow.
Father!
On this earth there are many nations and many peoples.
They each have had different histories,
and their living conditions and the things they hope for are different.
When we consider again that
this is contrary to your originally determined will,
we come to understand that
the difference in histories is your grief, and
the difference in conditions is your grief, and
the difference in hopes is also your grief.
When we think of these things,
Father,
we know that they are the retribution of the fall.
It will not do unless history comes from you,
and it will not do unless the present comes from you, and
it will not do unless the future forms a relationship with your idea,
but today humankind is facing the tragic reality
of not having one relationship, or one set of conditions for life or
one ideological foundation.
Please allow us to hear once again in our minds
the ghastly screams and moans of all humanity
who are living in a chaotic place like this,
in this place which has been turned upside down,
where each person's position contradicts the other's.
Please allow us to think together with your heart, Father,
to feel your heart, and
to become aware of the mistakes of the past.
Father!
You need to have sons and daughters
weeping tears of sincere repentance and
pleading for you to allow humankind to have blessed hope.
But the more we feel that we have not done that
the more unable we are to raise our heads before you.
Today there are many religions and religious organizations
going forward towards one goal, but
we know that there are not many
bowing down before you humbly and weeping
about the sorrowful path that you must go and
about the sorrow of the ghastly judgment humankind must receive.
The pitiful people who have gathered here today
have continuously gone a path of anguish.
Embracing the command you gave, they have continued fighting until today.
Please personally guide their footsteps, and
since they are your sons and daughters
who have remained in this place today,
please remember them.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
(January 2, 1966)
PLEASE ALLOW OUR MINDS TO LONG
FOR OUR ORIGINAL HOME
We did not know that
a historical end was calling to us from afar, and
we did not know that you had set us up high
and were urging us along the path we have to go.
Father!
Each time we went in ignorance onto a side path
you guided us back to the path ahead.
We feel once again
how very much you have toiled
guiding us until this point at the end of history today.
Oh Father!
Where do our minds want to dwell?
And where do our bodies want to dwell?
Since we have come to understand that
the place where our minds and bodies should dwell
is at the center of your original, deep love,
Father,
please encourage your children
who have not been able to arrive at that point.
Without your love, Father,
we can not rest, and
without your love,
we can not feel your heart.
Therefore please let the waves of your love flow down
into our lacking minds, and
bring about in us the blessing of rebirth.
We must long for that position
until our eyes grow cold,
and we must yearn for that position
until our minds ache with the yearning.
And furthermore in order to find that position,
we will have to go through miserable struggles,
and even if we are destroyed and collapse a thousand, ten thousand times,
and experience the anguish of the vanquished,
we know that it is our duty that we must rise up again
and go forward fighting.
Therefore, our Father,
please personally direct our minds and bodies, and
please do not allow us to become the vanquished in this battle.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the True Parents.
Amen.
(May 28, 1967)
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