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)
WE LONG FOR YOU, FATHER
However difficult the path
you have told us to go may be,
we pledge
that we will not stop our footsteps which are following you.
Even if on this path the persecution we receive
crosses the path of death,
since we have already offered ourselves as living sacrifices,
please allow us to just disappear obediently as sacrifices.
We know that in the midst of this world of death
you desire to establish a foundation of life
which can form a relationship in your embrace.
We will absolutely establish
that foundation of life.
Father!
We long for you
with an inexhaustible longing.
We want to live with you forever and ever.
We want to consult with you,
and live according to your directions.
This is our hope.
Since the day humankind fell,
we have lived without every being embraced
by your love for a single day.
We know that until now humankind
has continuously gone though a miserable history of tears
day by day going over peak after peak of sorrow.
Please allow us to become true sons and daughters who
cling to you, Father, who have sought us with a heart
seeking to restore the standard of hope by
seeking once again this kind of history, and
we earnestly hope for and desire that
you allow us to be able to share your joys and sorrows.
Oh Father!
Please look at this place with eyes of fire
and do not allow any bitter roots of sin or death
to remain deep in our hearts.
Please look at us with eyes of fire
and please allow us at this time today
to pull out all the roots of sin and be unified before you.
Since we have bowed down humbly before you, please act upon us.
We earnestly desire this.
Representing the multitudes of peoples,
this people must receive love,
and for the many tribes
we will have to completely fulfill the mission you have given.
We must become a movement
which can stand in the place of the final glory
singing a victory song to you, our Father, and
we must become brave people who can remain through the final battle
while carrying out the responsibility you have given us.
Therefore please work with us, Father,
take dominion over us, give us directions, and lead us.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the True Parents.
Amen.
(March 31, 1968)
PLEASE ALLOW US TO HAVE
MINDS WHICH LONG FOR YOU, FATHER
Father!
We must become children.
We must become children who insist to you
that we are hungry when we are hungry.
Children thirst to adore their mothers.
Children are simple and innocent.
The more they are raised,
the more they are brought up and gently embraced,
the more they grow to follow their parents' standard.
Father!
Please repeatedly remember your children
who are gathered here.
If they who have come from so many diverse situations
open their hearts about those situations,
we know that you will not be able to help being moved.
Therefore please allow us to open our hearts,
and to have hearts that long for you
like hungry babes longing for their mothers' milk.
Who will be the teacher here?
These people do not want the words of man.
Until now they have heard many words spoken, and
they have attended many churches, and
they have met many people.
But the nectar of life was not among them,
and because the milk of life was not there,
their minds have run dry.
With nothing to depend on in their exhausted state
they are in a miserable position like a wasteland.
Therefore, Father,
please gather them together.
Each one must put aside his own situation, and
there must arise a work of intertwined lives wriggling for re-creation
centered on relationships of life and words of life
which are centered on your situation, Father.
I have not been able to prepare myself
to bring myself before you, Father.
But I offer everything I have and am before you, and
I must find my "self" which begins with you.
I must have the attitude of mind which seeks to begin from you.
Since I must possess the true appearance which begins with you,
I earnestly hope and desire that you will be with me personally.
Since they have come with minds that have been grieving for a week,
Father,
please comfort them.
I earnestly ask that you will
please apply medicine on their wounds,
and spreading salve over them,
embrace them with love.
And then for these lonely, miserable, shabby people
please allow a place in your home
where they can change clothes and rest.
How much you must look forward to
people seeking you on their own
with the nourishment of overflowing love.
These people are also looking forward to such a position,
so we earnestly hope and desire that you will allow it.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the True Parents.
Amen.
(March 31, 1968)
PLEASE ALLOW US TO BECOME CHILDREN
LONGING FOR OUR REAL FATHER
At this time an inadequate group of small numbers
has gathered before you.
Our minds and bodies have good conditions
for harmonizing with the world, but
we have bowed down before you as those
who can not help but stand far away from you in our relationship.
Therefore, Father,
please separate us.
We earnestly hope and desire that
if our wounds are severe,
you will please let your compassion reach those wounds,
and when you see that we can not appear before you as we should,
please comfort us.
Please allow us to have minds able to sorrow and lament over
the fact that we are imperfect beings who are ashamed before you
and have nothing to offer you.
Deep in our hearts, please allow minds which adore you to blossom.
Please allow us to hear your voice
as it called out in the original Garden of Eden,
and to feel your holiness
that our ancestors could not feel.
Please allow us to become
your simple and pure children who can penetrate to your heart
of longing and love which desires to embrace us
in the midst of your mind.
We earnestly hope that
you will feel the unbreakable blood relationship we have with you
and will desire so much to see us that
you will not be able to help embracing us
and will not be able to help coming to us.
Father!
When we called you "Father",
we were not able to do so
with a voice which flowed out of a sincere mind
which penetrated even our flesh and bones.
We have not been able to have a time
when we could rush to you and cling to you
from a position of oneness with that kind of emotion.
Since we have not been able to know you clearly in that way,
please allow us to be able to perceive you clearly.
Please allow us to become those who struggle
with deeply moved minds to grasp your outstretched hand
and the train of your garment and never to let go.
We earnestly hope and desire that you will allow us to
call you "Father" in that kind of position and to
become able to cling to you and confide in you there.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the True Parents.
Amen.
(June 9, 1968)
PLEASE ALLOW US TO GO FORTH WITH CHILDLIKE HEARTS
Father of Mercy!
Please let this place become a sanctuary
where we become one with your mind.
Please allow it to become a holy place
where only you can take dominion,
and we can be close to your heart,
be moved to tears by your situation, and
be in harmony with your hope.
Please remove all the humanistic private things.
Born as descendents of the fall,
we have used masks as we saw fit and
have had ideologies we insisted on.
Please eliminate all these conditions
which appear before you.
We earnestly hope and desire that
you will allow us to
have humble hearts like children,
and that in our minds we will have hearts
which endlessly long for and continually adore you
like hungry babies long for their mother's milk,
and that our hearts can harmonize like that and
be absorbed and penetrate
deep into your heart.
We know clearly that the appearance we give
is miserable and pitiful
like children who have lost their parents.
Please let a moving, howling scream explode
out of our minds towards our mother and father.
In order to kick away this environment
and to forget that our bodies have been wounded
we earnestly hope and desire,
Father,
that you will allow us to appear as those able to testify ourselves
that we are your sons
who have hearts which are able to be moved by our pathetic situation
of struggling and longing for our parents.
We earnestly hope and desire,
Father,
that you will allow us to become your children
who long for the kind of relationship
where you see us looking like that, and
you rush to embrace us calling us, "My son, my daughter," and
you can hold our cheek next to yours and embrace us tightly while weeping.
We have come to this place
not to find some thing of this world.
We have come longing for a relationship preordained by heaven
which will allow us to remain together forever with you
who are so precious and exalted.
We have not come here to put down the roots of some
personal feelings and remain here;
we have come here to pursue a relationship
of eternal roots which can not be pulled out even if one tries,
and a relationship where we can not be separated from you even if we try.
Since we have come in order to move when you move,
and to become what is decided when you decide,
we earnestly hope and desire,
Father,
that you will please, please, become the roots, and
that you will allow us to become the trunks, branches, and leaves,
your children who will revive the world and
represent your power, dynamic force, and pulse.
No matter what anyone says,
we know that children who are being embraced
by their father and mother are fortunate people.
However savage the surrounding environment may be,
no matter whether their daily lives are spent on dangerous, high peaks,
we know that children who go to sleep in their parents embrace
have hearts filled with peace.
Living in this evil world,
this chaotic world,
this world where the waves of death are splashing up against us,
we are people who can not go to you even if we want, but
we have come before you with ardor,
longing for, yearning for, adoring you
at least for the moment when, we can be embraced by you.
Therefore we earnestly hope and desire that you will give us directions.
We have humbly offered this prayer in the name of our True Parents. Amen.
(November 17, 1968)
PLEASE ALLOW US TO BECOME THOSE WHO CAN BE TOGETHER WITH GOODNESS FOREVER
Father!
Please allow us to clearly realize
that in our minds and bodies
there remains the original root of sin
which we can not deal with by our own strength alone.
Please allow us to realize
what kinds of things we have been through
from the past until now, and
that we have been people like that,
and please allow us to ardently feel the need for a stimulating, dynamic force
which will let us revolutionize ourselves once again today.
We earnestly hope and desire
that you will allow us to clearly know
that without putting aside the me of today
and being able to establish a self who can make a new me for tomorrow,
we will not be able to become beings who remain even in the lower levels of
this good will and good historical course.
Please do not allow us to become pitiful people
whose lives just flow along
with the flowing waves.
And please allow us to understand clearly
that we have remaining with us
the purpose of goodness which must swim upstream against the current.
When we look through the course of history
we know well that the will of heaven
is not something which goes forward separate from history;
it deals with history and raises history up quickly.
From that kind of course alone
we know well the fact that
you have been working with us in history.
Today at this time
we earnestly hope and desire that you will allow us to
once again think about what kind of position we are in and
to stand in a position where we can communicate with you
about matters.
Please allow us to understand completely that
you remain with things of goodness forever
and you will absolutely not allow evil to participate.
You become partners with goodness, and
go out together with goodness, and
since you go forth looking towards the one will
which can be accomplished together with goodness,
even if our bodies are eliminated
please allow us to feel once again
at this time before you, Father,
that we must become people
whose minds at least remain with goodness forever.
Then
we earnestly hope and desire that
you will allow us to have minds
which can become one with your will, our eternal Father,
and subjugate and take dominion over our bodies
according to the directions and commands of our minds, and
that our bodies will be able to communicate with our minds.
We earnestly hope that you will allow this time to become one
we are attending in order to
desire once again to be people who are able to do that,
and to control ourselves again to be able to do that, and
to determine ourselves again to be able to do that.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the True Parents.
Amen.
(June 22, 1969)
PLEASE ALLOW US TO CONSIDER ON OUR OWN
THE SITUATION WE ARE FACED WITH
Father!
This morning
a lonely group has gathered before you.
We must consider on our own
the kind of situation we are in.
We need to realize clearly
through whom we have come here at this time and
in order to form what kind of relationship we have come to this place.
However evil the world may be, and
however filthy the world may be,
we must examine completely on our own the position we are in,
and we must determine our relationship with you, Father,
and in the course of our lives establish a relationship with you
which can not be forgotten.
We must know that
if there is such a person,
the relationship that person forms
is greater and more precious
than anything else in the world.
Our longing for our Father is soaring up out of our hearts,
adoring hearts longing for heaven of their own accords,
these are the driving forces which can go against the flow of history.
Please allow us to know that
these shields of victory can trample the waves of death and stand over them.
We must become those people of true love
who know how to feel how precious the people are
who can live as substantial testimonies
praising you with their minds and bodies.
Now we must analyze ourselves in detail,
and think about
for whom our faces exist.
We must think about
what our eyes are seeing
what our ears are hearing,
for which tastes and smells our mouths and noses exist,
and for which acts of service for whom our hands and feet exist.
Please allow us to completely realize that
even though we should have been those
whose entire being could become truly one with heaven
and long for you, Father,
and attend you, Father,
and be those who were loyal to you,
we are those who must grieve
from a position of anguish
that we have not had even one moment
of our minds communicating with you and love.
We who say we live on this earth,
live in a realm of life limited to seventy, eighty years or
at most a hundred years,
and then we are buried in the earth.
No matter how good we might look while on the earth
we must realize that we can not bring about any results by ourselves, and
we must realize how meaningless is
preparing a living environment
only with accomplishments on the earth.
We must clearly know that
our birth and life and
our four limbs and hundreds of body parts
all exist due to you, Father,
and we must understand how very precious
we are when we depend only on heaven,
and take responsibility ourselves even when there are difficulties, and
with a desperate attitude
follow your will, pushing our way through a great diversity of difficulties
and seek to relieve your grief.
We must become those
who know how to think of our relationship with you
when we are in sorrow in such a position, and
we must become those who are able to be grateful to you
when we are happy.
We must become true people who desperately weep and proclaim
so that all of heaven and earth can be moved
that you exist,
our living Father who has been taking on all the difficulties
and going forth being driven out again and again
in our stead throughout history,
and at this moment as well you are not resting,
but in order to save us
you are searching for the standard of goodness.
But each time we feel
that no one has been able to experience that position,
we want to receive your grace, Father,
and we long to be able to live a life of grace within you and win your
confidence.
Father,
we who are like that
need a relationship with you, and
need to be governed by you.
Therefore, please
allow only the glory of your life
to rise up from the depths of our hearts.
We pray in the name of the True Parents. Amen.
(November 2, 1969)
PLEASE ALLOW US TO REALIZE THROUGH EXPERIENCE THE EXISTENCE OF OUR FATHER WHO IS ALWAYS NEAR US
We must not think of you
as a concept, Father.
Please let us understand clearly
that we must attend you as a real being,
as the absolute subject of all aspects of our life.
You have not been living
in some distant relative world.
You have been in the middle of our hearts and
you have surrounded our bodies.
Although there is air all around us,
just as we don't know whether it is there or not,
we must realize that
we didn't realize that you were embracing our entire lives.
When we receive that power which is surrounding us
an infinite power is being mobilized there,
and we know that when we absorb that power
as an eternal power
it gives us a new impact and a new stimulation.
We must become sons and daughters
who are able to realize through experience
the existence of our father
who always stays near us like that and
gives us life and
is always filling us.
We must come to realize
how precious is the person who knows how to discuss his life course
with you from such a position and
from such a position can grow as your child.
Many people on the earth
hope for heavenly fortune and hope about the rest of their lives, but
we know that they are hoping for these things
keeping a relative distance from them.
But different from them
please allow us to clearly understand
that all the authority of life
begins from the closest point,
from you who are the center of life.
In order to do that, please remain close
deep in our hearts, Father,
and by taking dominion over our bodies,
please become the motive power of our lives,
and we must realize the fact that
you must become the origin of all our feelings.
Please allow us to realize how great
and how precious is the value of a child
who can attend our father
who is the subject of wide, deep, sublime, precious, infinite value.
When we go out to witness to that standard tens of millions, billions of times
please allow us to realize the fact that the inherent authority
to be able to absorb all the content of heaven
and to take dominion over the cosmos comes into being then.
We have humbly prayed these things in the name of the True Parents. Amen.
(November 23, 1969)
PLEASE ALLOW US TO WALK THE PATH OF
LIFE TOGETHER WITH YOU, FATHER
Father!
Through looking at the course of history and
through our own lives of faith, we have come to clearly understand that
heaven is an eternal place,
but what determines whether one can go into that heaven
is what a person has made an effort to do on his own on earth
and the state of his heart.
As people who have come to know the will
we worry about ourselves
that we might not be able to walk the way we must for the will.
We are those who can not help but live day by day together with heaven
and yet can not help but live together with the earth.
But we know well that
through our hearts which are like this
you are seeking to appear in our daily lives.
In order to do that we must realize the fact that
you are judging the good and evil within us.
Following a lonely path of life like this,
those of us who are looking at that and going forward,
can not help but admit that
we are descendents of the fall
who are not able to find any hope without you, Father.
For those of us who are like that,
only heaven is good,
and we know the truth that it must be heaven which becomes our everything.
Please allow this time to become a time of reflection and evaluation of
how rewarding and
how truly human are
living together with heaven,
and having the courage to die together with heaven.
In the course of history,
those who left behind the name "great person"
as a person of goodness,
and those who left behind the name "saint"
as one individual in the world of men,
their names have remained in a holy way
because their purpose of life was to live together with all humankind and
to live together with you, Father.
They did not become exhausted along the path of life, and
in order to live together with you and
together with all the people of the world,
we know that
they walked a path of limitless struggles
in order to tie the end together with the beginning.
The many people who have come and gone throughout the course of history
did that, but we, who have the name of being sons and daughters of heaven,
who are shouldering the responsibility of the providence of restoration
which must be completely resolved in the history of today,
we ask you to allow us to know the fact that
what we must do is already determined.
Your having called us in this way
is not because we ourselves are fit for the calling,
but you have called us as beings of hope
through the course of the 6,000 years of pioneering
filled with so much grief since the fall
in order to establish the concept of creation which you were hoping for
from before the beginning of history.
When we realize that we are such beings,
we can not help but feel again
the loneliness and misery of our father
with his heart of grief-filled restoration.
Please prod us because we have not been able to become our real selves
who can straighten ourselves up and call you our father,
and let us admit that
we have not been able to lay the foundation of holy devotion
which allows us to attend our heavenly parents.
In spite of the fact that
more than offering anything of the world,
we ourselves must become complete offerings
who are able to offer ourselves as sacrifices to whatever you desire,
we can not express how many times we have forgotten this.
Father!
The external conditions like physical appearance or
any kind of worldly conditions are not the problem.
Please allow us to be able to walk the course of our lives
with earnest hearts which want to struggle for heaven,
and want to witness to heaven
and want to live for heaven from deep in our hearts.
Father!
Even if while living for you
it may sometimes seem like we are in a dreary,
lonesome, lonely, and deserted place,
we must realize that when we are assessed by you,
we are considered as belonging to you.
We earnestly desire that you will allow us
to once again determine ourselves to stand by our own volition
in the position of knowing that this is the original path we must go,
and it is the original desire which humankind should pursue.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the True Parents.
Amen.
(February 8, 1970)
PLEASE ALLOW US TO LIVE LIVES OF GRATITUDE
Father!
If we are sons who know your devotion, Father,
even if we wake up in the middle of the night,
we would not be able to help bowing down to you
with embarrassed minds which are not able to cover up
our shamefulness as sinners.
At the morning breakfast table,
please let us become people who ask ourselves
what we're going to do after we eat this rice,
and at the lunch table
please allow us to become those who in an ashamed manner,
feel remorse over the question of what we have left unfinished until now,
and at the dinner table,
please let us become those who ask ourselves
whether we have spent the day well and concluded it without lack.
Please allow us to become children
who start the day as yours, Father,
and who question whether up to this time we have remained as yours,
and when we think about how much concern
you have for us, Father,
with an empty body which can not leave anything behind
of this day which we must spend in a valuable way,
please let us think about whether we have not spent the day
with a mind of the world,
and please let us become your children who know how to go to bed
after repenting to you with tears and with regretful hearts.
We must live grateful lives.
Even at the point of being beaten,
even at the point of vomiting blood,
we must live grateful lives.
Because many ancestors
betrayed you at that kind of point, Father,
we know that we must fulfill completely
the duty of filial piety among filial piety and
the duty of loyalty among loyalty to you, Father,
who have come with a heart filled
with that kind of anguished, historical grief.
Please let us understand here
that we can not stand in such a position
with resentment and complaints.
Please allow us to become those who fear
that we might find ourselves to be like that.
Please let us understand
that although we are pitiful and weak people in the world,
there is no one more fearful than such people.
Even if we are at a point where our bodies are exhausted
to the extent that we can not hold on any more,
we must think that you have longed for us
overcoming and going a path of suffering more severe than this,
and when we discover the fact that only by going beyond this suffering
will we become sons who can comfort your sorrowful past,
we must purify ourselves as those who must go and
become sons who offer ourselves completely as sacrifices
before you.
We have nothing more than living in gratitude.
Even if the wife given to one husband is inadequate,
because of being able to serve throughout our lives
we must be grateful for having given us that wife,
and if our children give me a life of the cross,
we will have to be grateful for your having provided us that kind of position,
and even if the environment
drives us into pits of despair where we can not control our lives,
no matter what condition that sets up
we will become your sons who can leave behind a relationship of gratitude
and collapse, and
we earnestly hope that you will allow us to become your people.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the True Parents.
Amen.
(March 14, 1970)
PLEASE ALLOW US TO BECOME CHILDREN WHO CHERISH THE PULSE OF YOUR LIFE
Since humankind are the beings who were born
for the sake of your love,
we can not live apart from love.
We were born for love,
and we should attend you through love,
and in front of our father who is the subject
as reciprocal objects we should love each other,
and when we think that we should be able to receive love,
we earnestly hope and desire that your will allow us to understand
that we who have gathered here are your sons and daughters
because of that infinite value.
A meeting which has no relationship to you
is useless.
Please let us know that
attending every day out of habit
can not be of any help to you.
Is there any weak person
among those who are bowing
to our noble Father,
to the subject of eternal love,
to you who are the source of eternal life?
If there is, we earnestly hope and desire that
you will allow him to have a mind that longs for you
as much as he forgets his own self importance
while falling down
in front of everyone at the point when he recognizes
that you are expressing yourself there.
We earnestly hope and desire that you will allow us to understand
that we are a group which has come here in order to become
children who can cherish the pulse of your life, Father,
which is penetrating our minds, and
we are screaming out for you to give us a moment
of being embraced by you
while we sob with earnest hearts
clinging to the edge of your garments and
embracing your neck.
Your love
can flow, reverberating deep in our hearts
and link together our hearts.
Please let that pulse of blood which is flowing at the base of your heart
raise up our hearts.
Please let all our blood be permeated by
the pulse of the original nature of love.
Then
let us fight with your indignation and
together with your courage,
please reach out to us with the pulse of your enmity,
and please let it become the source of our strength
which allows us to go beyond each moment of life,
Father,
and in the midst of the reverberations, let us recover ourselves
and form a relationship with you.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the True Parents.
Amen.
(April 5, 1970)
PLEASE SET ON FIRE OUR HEARTS OF
ADORATION FOR YOU, FATHER
Father!
This place must become one
which you can recognize as holy and
which you can come to without hesitation.
We earnestly hope that you will allow this place
where your sons and daughters are to become
a place where you can surely come freely.
We must not become people who are exhausted
from crying out without receiving any response
staring into space.
We must step on the boundary of sin and go over it.
Please let us greet the day of joy
where we can call you "Father" and
feel the sensation of you reaching out in concern
to those of us who are like this.
We earnestly hope and desire that
you will allow us the state of being intoxicated
by our selves embracing all of heaven and earth in love
with your heart.
Father!
Please allow us
a natural situation where we can call you "Father"
together with earnest minds which are on fire with hearts of adoration
according to our own wills.
Together with all things of creation
we would like to be proud before you, Father,
with an authority which can praise our value.
We know that you created everything for us.
We earnestly hope and desire that
you will connect your sons and daughters
in a place where we can call you "Father" in secret
as valuable people.
Today we must not just gaze remotely
at the patriots of the past who cried out for you.
Please let all the content of the past
appear as material of the present reality.
Then all the circumstances of today
will connect the present reality and the future,
and please let the actual past
testify to today.
And we earnestly request and desire that
you will allow us to become sons and daughters who can attend you, Father.
We earnestly ask you to please take responsibility for everything
and protect it in a holy way.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the True Parents.
Amen.
(August 9, 1970)
PLEASE ALLOW US TO BECOME NEW SHOOTS
Father!
We must become your true seeds and
grow into true trees
and put forth flowers and bear fruit
and appear as hundreds of fruits
which can be embraced in your bosom.
Therefore,
please sow us as true seeds
greeting a spring day,
and let us grow as true trees
and allow us to become comforts to you.
And furthermore, there in the fragrance of the flowers
please realize your desire
of having a banquet of joy in the last days
bearing fruit and filling all nations.
Father!
Please let us
love you sincerely.
We know that our lack of filial piety towards you until now
is because we have grown up in an evil environment.
Father!
We know the law of putting down roots in true fertile soil as one seed
and centered on the roots the sprout will come up
and grow into a tree
in the midst of an environment filled with hope
centered on your public love,
and we also will have to consider as important
this environment needed by the new sprouts.
Father!
Please arrange their youth in proper beauty.
And please protect their path of relationship with you, and
let them be able to grow centered on the foundation of that environment.
Please let them become true shoots,
and in relation to this people, this nation, this world,
please let them become a new tree of life which all humankind can look up to
and which can embrace all of humankind.
And we earnestly hope and desire
that you will allow us to become sons and daughters
who can blossom as new flowers and bear fruit
which can be spread to all nations with more to spare.
In order to do that
we will have to be strong.
Oh Father,
please allow this nation
centered on your open love
to be able to be so eternally united
that no kind of strength can break it apart.
Please allow it to burn with conviction
which can not be changed by any kind of adverse circumstances.
In order to endure these kinds of trials
we will have to absorb sufficient nutrition.
Please guide us
to become sons and daughters who have the life power
which can remove all the essential conditions of evil
which are left in this people.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the True Parents.
Amen.
(August 23, 1970)
PLEASE ALLOW US TO PURSUE A TRUE LIFE
WITH A GENTLE HUMBLE ATTITUDE
The person who lives for the world
and is raised up by the world
is not the kind of person who insists that he is great.
We must truly understand
that it is the kind of person
who should be raised up by you
who do not reveal yourself and
who walk the path of hard work in a lonely place.
Please let us realize that
sons and daughters who work hard quietly thinking of you
in order to return that joy to you as yours are more needed
than people who make efforts to obtain
whatever kind of happiness there may be
as the pride of this people.
Our hard working Father!
Our lonely Father!
If we are sons and daughter who truly know
the dramatic situation of sorrow of our father
who has endured closing his eyes,
biting his lips and biting his tongue,
we must truly feel
that you, who have carried the grief of a thousand years in your heart,
can not receive comfort
through people who seek for satisfaction in the life of one day.
In spite of being people who are
passing through a historical age
in which we must live lives of reform,
lives of inspiration which can not hold back the tears
even if we have the grief of it taking our entire lives,
before you
we should, of course, live true lives
with gentle, humble attitudes, but
on the contrary we must realize that
we are making your work harder, and
we are giving you heavier crosses to carry, and
we have pushed you out on a lonely path.
And not only that
we must realize that we have been in the vanguard position
striking the people of heaven's side
as descendents who received the evil blood lineage.
We must discover that we are those
who can not even request forgiveness from you
through anything in heaven and earth.
Then
please make us realize that
we can truly find you
and relate to you
only if in lamentation and anguish
we have minds which seek to offer to you
our lives which have caused grief in relation to your will.
We earnestly hope that your will allow us to feel that
this is the most important event,
greater than anything else in our lives.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the True Parents.
Amen.
(September 27, 1970)
PLEASE ALLOW US TO BE THOSE WHO ARE ABLE TO BE SORRY EVEN IF WE HAVE GIVEN LIMITLESSLY
We must understand that
until now our father has not been ruled by anyone, but
our father's mind
has been sorry even as he gave.
It was our father's mind to want to give
pure, original love completely.
But we must think about the fact that
due to humankind's fall,
in the heart of our father who carried out the providence step by step
there are the tears of loneliness from that period of thousands of years.
Father!
We must know that your situation has been that
you could not help but go through the stages of
the rugged peaks of the age of formation,
the age of growth and the age of perfection
in the course of the providence of restoration.
Even while receiving your love,
until today, humankind has not known how to be grateful to you,
and has not known how to reciprocate.
We have considered the inner heart of our father
who has lead this sorrowful history bravely and with good courage,
determined to give everything at some point, the more people are like that.
Today please express your sorrowful heart.
Your sons and daughters have gathered here feeling fear
that we might not be able to become the sons and daughters
who can receive everything from you and give everything to you
representing the world, representing history, representing the cosmos
at this time of your expressing completely the heart your wanted to give.
Father,
we have come to understand that
when a person who is filled with a mind
which wants to give the things of creation
meets a person who wants to receive those things,
if that person bows his head and feels ashamed even as he is giving,
that person is your person.
Even having given everything,
feeling restricted by not being able to give more,
wanting to give more,
even if there is the grief of
burning up one's mind and body and disappearing,
if there is a person who has a mind which denies
even the fact that he has disappeared,
that person belongs to God,
and when we think that all heaven is connected to him,
we earnestly hope that you will allow us to appear at this time as
sons and daughters who can connect with you, Father,
at this central point which we can not avoid even if we wanted to.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the True Parents.
Amen.
(October 25, 1970)
PLEASE ALLOW OUR MEETING TO BE CENTERED
ON HEAVEN
Beloved Father!
The flow of past history
was sorrowful at times and happy at times.
Each time we think that heaven's sorrow is dwelling
in the center of a mind which others don't know,
we realize how continuously inadequate
we have been as we relate to you.
Father!
This relationship of your having met us
has not been formed through our efforts;
it is due to the merit of millions of generations of ancestors
which laid a bridge and broadened and broadened its foundation.
Please allow us to be able to feel grateful for all the grace
you have given to let us have a day when we could meet you
like this today.
In a place where people gather together and part again,
people are subjected to criticism, and
we can see that divisions occur,
but we must understand that
in a place where people meet centered on heaven
only awe, gratitude and tears remain.
Please let your children who are gathered here clearly realize
that it will not do unless
they feel more compassion for God deep in the center of their minds,
and they love God who is our father.
Please allow us to become sons and to become daughters
who offer our minds and bodies
in order to love you as though we were crazy and
who are able to be grateful even if we sacrifice everything, and
about whom you can feel joy when you look at us.
As you searched for him, how much did you long for
that one and only son
to whom you could give all your love
and about whom you could be proud before all people?
Now our impatient selves
are advancing step by step towards your internal character;
therefore it will not do unless we become those
who are waiting for the time that you call us to hurry and come to you.
Please absolutely don't let us ever become sons and daughters
who avoid suffering and
worry that suffering may come.
We know well that
if there was a history of suffering
there was without fail a mistake between the people there.
Please allow us to realize clearly that
when you were doing well behind the scenes but humankind made a mistake,
heaven was sorrowful every time, and
stood in a position where it could not help but be in anguish.
Humankind must never overturn the blessings of the whole
which heaven seeks to give
due to making a mistake or
having cooperated together and determining together.
Knowing this kind of truth,
we earnestly hope
that you will allow us to become sons and daughters
who are able to determine ourselves.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of our True Parents.
Amen.
(January 9 1971)
PLEASE LET US GO THE PATH OF LIVING FOR OTHERS
Since we know that living for ourselves, for myself
is always being an enemy
in relation to the course of the providence of salvation, and
living for others
is the course which levels that path
of all the difficulties and struggles
which are always in front of us,
please let us go the path of living for others.
If our spirit becomes exhausted
that is not something we can resolve on our own.
On the contrary please let us realize that
if we live for others or sacrifice more
because of being in a position to suffer more and to live for others,
there is another path which can be pioneered as a course of reaction.
And please let us realize that
there is another path that can lead to you
by increasing the level of precious loyalty
and offering more devotion to you.
We earnestly hope that you will allow us to understand
that the problem is not in other people, it is in ourselves, in myself.
We know well that it is the principle of the real world that
no matter how strongly a cold wind blows,
if I prepare clothes for myself and wear them,
that cold wind just blows by without affecting me, but
if I don't have the ability to be able to prepare myself for that,
due to that I become ill, and
due to that I can be bent over.
Accordingly in our lives today as well
we will have to take on this principle and reform our lives
and be able to determine the value which heaven is hoping for,
which can give light to the course of our lives.
Please let us realize that only then
will we be able to become the sons and daughters
who can make you happy.
We must understand the fact that
having been excited sons and daughters
who were happy in the past
does not mean we will be happy sons and daughters today.
We can be happier today than in the past.
In order to become sons and daughters who can feel valuable stimulation
it will not do unless we stand in a position
where we can believe heaven, and
look up to heaven, and
consult directly with heaven
from a position of being able to take on
a more difficult,
a loftier,
a more valuable,
a more responsible position.
We earnestly hope and desire that you will allow us to become
your sons and daughters who know
that taking on a more important responsibility is an honor,
that going a more difficult path of the cross than others is our pride, and
that living a more serving life than others is a valuable life.
We have prayed all these things in the name of the True Parents.
Amen.
(January 24, 1971)
PLEASE LET US KNOW THE TIME OF OUR LIFE
Until now for Unification Church members
the time has come near, but it worries me greatly,
and I can not help but be skeptical about
how many people know that the time is coming.
The time passes as the time, but
we know that nothing will work today
if people are the same as they were in the past.
We know that
when spring comes as the time to plant seeds,
if the seeds are planted, the shoots will sprout,
and when summer comes, the shoots will grow,
and when fall comes, they will bear fruit,
and just before winter comes
there is a time to harvest.
When we see one living being
going through the course of its life
according to the laws of natural phenomena like this,
if there is a person who in his lifetime
is greeting the spring season of his life of faith,
please allow him to also greet the summer season.
In the summer season
it is not the luxuriantly growing leaf which is good;
please allow us to understand
how precious the stem is which allowed it to grow.
We know that this stem, as a stem I alone can possess,
brings flowers into bloom and bears fruit, and
if it is a yearly plant, that fruit
brings the combined results of the value of the whole year
We must understand that a life of faith
has times like that as well.
Please let us know that
throughout our lives
in relation to our course of knowing the will
one time is the spring season;
one time is the summer season;
one time is the fall season, and
one time is the harvest season.
When we reach the harvest season centered on the will,
we must offer everything and give our full devotion
and bring in the harvest.
And if we do not claim the things we harvest as our own, but
give them to you and then receive them back as ours,
we form a relationship with you, and all things can belong to us.
Because we know that being able to have a relationship has value,
we who are going the course of restoration
should not first have all things as our own; rather
everything must be yours, Father.
We who are in the position of having received your call and following
must clearly understand that
preparing our own personality and life does not come first;
we must prepare for your personality and your life first.
More than any thing else,
please do not let us lose the battle through lives of a day,
and we earnestly hope and desire
that you will bless us,
Father,
not to lose in relation to the battle through our lives of a month.
May all things be together with the standard of your victory, and
we earnestly ask you to guide us to become
sons and daughters whose minds will always
rush valiantly and boldly in that direction and
be there at the place of your final victory.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of our True Parents.
Amen.
(January 24, 1971)
PLEASE ESTABLISH US AS CHILDREN
YOU CAN BE PROUD OF
Father!
We earnestly hope and desire that
you will allow us to become children
who reveal our terribly petty, base selves
in front of your broad, noble, internal character
and eagerly long for
the touch of your compassion and mercy.
Father, you are the subject of all capabilities!
You are the prime mover of all life!
You are the origin of heart and love!
As real beings in front of you,
we entrust our whole selves to you
from the position of being like branches or leaves,
and if you are sorrowful, then we will also have to be sorrowful,
and if you are happy, then we will also have to be happy,
and if you work quickly, then we will also have to work quickly.
We earnestly hope and desire that
you will allow us to become your sons and daughters
who deal with our entire living environment together with you
in this way.
When we reveal ourselves
before your internal character,
we wonder whether we are the kinds of sons and daughters
whom you hoped for,
whether you can relate happily to us, and
personally come and whisper directions
to us about the path we should go.
In order to become those kinds of sons and daughters,
more than anyone else we must fulfill the duty of filial piety
and the duty of loyalty in relation to you,
and we must be able to offer even our lives
to you.
Since we know that we can not remain connected to the will
on the stage of life
if we are not able to have a relationship as your sons,
please melt our minds which are like sticks and stones and
let them resemble your mind.
We earnestly hope and pray
that you will allow us to establish
a relationship where your situation and our situations meet,
and we can be absorbed into you.
It will not do to remain not being able to help lamenting
our fleeting lives
together with the flow of time.
With hope,
determining a hope-filled tomorrow, taking authority as your sons,
we will have to greet
a day of joy,
a day of rejoicing, and
a day of pride.
We who know the will
know your capacity and know through experience how amazing you are,
and we know that we must stand
in a position with dignity and authority
as the victors of tomorrow,
as the builders of today,
as the victors of history.
To do that
we must not be pitiful people
who always lament over themselves and can not put themselves forward.
Please allow us to become your sons and daughters
who know how to determine ourselves.
Now please allow our minds to be able to
give you joy.
And please allow our bodies to be
the way you want them.
Please allow us to be able to offer eternally
before you
our bodies to become living altars of victory and
our minds to become living sacrifices of victory.
Then
please allow us to become the sons and daughters
you are not ashamed to put forth before all things of creation
and about whom you can say proudly that
this is the sacrifice you have been looking for, and
these are the beings of hope you have wanted to meet.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the True Parents.
Amen.
(February 21, 1971)
FATHER! WE DID NOT KNOW IN TIME
Father!
You are the only one we can believe;
there is no one to depend on but you.
We know that there is no one but you
to clear up matters and form a relationship with.
If we form a relationship with people, we see that
it will become nothing more than an object of despair.
As we walk the path of persons of faith,
we have seen many times, experienced many times, and felt many times
the incessant fact of human history that
in the end our hearts are pierced with arrows.
Our sorrow was not being hungry,
it was not standing in a position
of being persecuted unjustly by the environment.
We did not know in advance that
what is far more sorrowful than that
is losing our beloved father.
No matter how lacking a place may be, if you are there
it has everything.
Even if a place is in the center of hell, if you are there
it can be transformed into heaven.
We know that there is no other place for us to live or die
than where you are, Father.
It is under you that we have happiness;
it is under you that we have hope, and
when we think that
it is under you that our existence has value,
in this way you are the prerequisite of all our victories,
the prerequisite of happiness, and
we really really did not know in advance
the fact that it is you, Father,
who can be the decisive standard of value.
As for pursuing superior value,
we did not know in time
that before pursuing something external,
already deep in our minds
there is a standard which can determine the content of value.
We thought that the source of happiness
was in some relative world on the other side;
therefore we did not know in advance that
deep in our minds a root is already connected there.
Now, Father,
if through the Unification Church,
you are longing for us to become sons and daughters whom you can embrace
as favored children of new resurrected life,
we have realized that it will not do unless we make efforts
in order to for us to be able to stand in such a position.
Therefore
we earnestly hope and pray that
we may become your precious sons and daughters
who can obtain your compassion
by becoming gentle incarnations who relate to your will humbly.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of our True Parents.
Amen.
(April 25, 1971)
PLEASE ALLOW US TO BECOME TRUE
Beloved Father!
Young boys and girls have gathered in this place.
Their longing for this place
was not in order to stay here like this today,
but in order to find their true selves for tomorrow.
They have come here in order to go on the holy path
where they can fulfill their duties of filial piety and loyalty to you
in their three ages,
the age of true youth,
the age of true maturity, and
the age of true elderliness.
We know the truth that there was sorrow of heaven was filled with tears
for the long period of 6,000 years
in order to restore one person.
In order to connect to the beginning point
of the victory of the greatest goodness,
we quietly offer our entire lives to you, Father, and
we will have to be able to sacrifice ourselves
fighting today and tomorrow.
We earnestly hope and pray that
you will allow the young people gathered here
to become those who are able to volunteer
and go forward on this kind of path.
In the world, the older generation and the younger generation are arguing, but
we know that
in the younger generation
there are true young people and
false young people.
We know that
today the false young people
are recklessly violating the most precious thing, but
the true young people
are saving to the utmost and protecting to the utmost
this most precious thing in the world.
We earnestly hope and desire that you will allow them to realize at this time
that that thing is chastity centered on obedience.
Through hearts which are rising up in young minds
overturning together with you, Father,
each one will have to be able to determine deep in his mind
to become a person who will fight and remain
until that point where we can have a relationship of victory.
Therefore we earnestly hope that
you will cause each one to make that kind of determination
When we think that
all the things yearned for in the evil world
are not things which lead us to the gates of happiness,
rather they drive us into
the snares of death and the traps of death,
it will not do unless the young individuals gathered here
become true young people
who determine to be true individuals who will not change
and no matter where they go in society
will not be stained or influenced.
When we realize that
if they do not become true young people,
they will not be able to become true youth or true middle-aged people,
we earnestly hope and desire that you will not allow us to be inadequate
in offering and returning ourselves nicely to you
receiving gratefully the blessed gift of this age and this season.
We have humbly prayed in the name of the True Parents. Amen.
(August 19, 1971)
PLEASE LET US REALIZE THAT ON THE PATH OF FAITH OUR OWN SELVES ARE OUR ENEMIES
When we think about
how very much you have sacrificed in the course of history
and how very much you have toiled,
in the ages of history
in order to find our individual selves,
today we can not help but report honestly
that we are inadequate people who have nothing at all
which can repay that great blessing, and
we are disloyal and unfilial.
We must clearly realize
the fact that the source of evil is not something else,
it is ourselves,
the fact that using ourselves as a base,
it is doing worldwide activities, and
the fact that it is appearing through our minds and our bodies.
Because of that
you have told us, Father, that
on the path of the life of faith,
winning the world is not the problem,
winning over yourself is the problem.
The enemy is not in another place,
the people right in my own home have been enemies,
and not only those family members,
going one step more inward,
we have realized that we can not help but say
that our bodies are our enemies.
And not only our bodies, but
at this time we must realize once again
the fact that our minds themselves
have stood in the position of enemies before you.
But
due to the merit of your hard work
for the sake of our inadequate selves,
and not only that
due to the great favor of your establishing and sacrificing
your many servants and many descendants,
we are able to bow here today.
Therefore before your grace overflows,
please allow the merit of our many ancestors who shed blood
in the course of history to remain with us, and
please let the foundation of their good accomplishments remain with us
and please let that form a bridge,
and we earnestly hope and desire
that you will allow this time to become one
where you can come to us.
Please allow us to be able to bow down to you
with hearts of adoration and hearts of yearning,
and minds which long only for you, Father.
Since we have minds which hope to shine again
as sons and daughters who can be embraced in your presence,
we must not become those who reveal ourselves as one complete entirety.
We earnestly ask that you will allow
us to become a leaven which you can kneed
after you have completely broken us up.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of our True Parents.
(October 17, 1971)
PLEASE ALLOW US TO BECOME SUBSTANTIATIONS OF YOUR HOPE
Father!
We know well that
from the time that Jesus Christ came to the earth,
shed his blood and established the path of the cross until now,
in this historical period of nearly 2,000 years,
humankind has gone along the path of historical indemnity
paying the price of so much blood.
We who know how very frustrated your heart must have been
since you could not just cast them away,
oh, Father,
we must realize ourselves
that we must become extremely humble,
and that on this path that our unification movement is going
we will face the new spring day
which can embrace and overcome the grief of Cain and Abel, and
from now on we must
embrace humankind and return to heaven with them
centered on the people
and centered on the world.
Whatever our attitude may be,
we must reflect on ourselves internally and externally.
We earnestly hope and desire that
you will bless us to be able to become true children
who can add to the stimulation of hope in your heart,
and who can be dashing and bold
and have no flaws as heros building your kingdom,
and that at the same time that we receive your blessing
we can receive your love, and
we will not be found lacking
for you to put us forward proudly before all people.
Father!
We earnestly hope that you will keep
all of our lives.
We earnestly ask that
your compassion and love will always penetrate deep in our hearts.
We have prayed all these things in the name of our True Parents.
Amen.
(January 19, 1975)
PLEASE ALLOW THE FALLEN REALM TO BE OVERCOME
BY YOUR HEART ALONE, FATHER
Beloved Father!
Once again we long for the day
which will realize the will you expressed
after creating all the things of the universe.
When we think about the existence of our sublime, precious Father,
we, who know how low and inadequate humankind is,
can not help but pursue
all value and content which can become one with that lofty will.
And furthermore, when we think that the people on this earth
are those who have fallen from the ideal world of God,
we think that the responsibility to take hold of oneself and
to be brought to the world of goodness does not lie with heaven,
rather it lies with humankind itself.
Father!
We have realized on our own that
the position we are faced with is far too separated
from the sublime majestic position
where you stay at the center of the universe,
and from you who are the lord of the ideal centered on love.
Therefore, we know that
in order to fill in this great distance
a path of submission to the reasonable course of restoration
which is so filled with grief
lies before us.
Our parents can not help us
with going forward on this path,
nor can we receive help from anyone else.
Today as we realize thinking that we can arrive there
only if we have earnest hearts centered on God alone and
toiling hearts of the original nature
which are not concerned about life or death,
we Unification Church family members
are sensing our awesome mission of having to expand
that purpose from our own individual selves
to the family, tribe, people, nation and world.
When we think about the fact that
from a position of being incomplete ourselves,
we can not pursue the completion of the family, and
from the position of an incomplete family,
we can not pursue the completion of the nation or the world,
we realize well that the situation humankind is in today
is very pitiful.
We know the fact that
the realm of the fall covers the whole like that and
dominates all the realms of life.
We also know that we need our own efforts and our own insights
which can overcome and go beyond this.
We need a new truth with is able to discover this, and
we need the strength to overcome it, but
we know that such strength does not arise from
loving for the sake of oneself, but rather
only by loving for the sake of God.
Father!
We earnestly hope and desire that
you will allow us to become children who can rush towards you
from this place
on our own
with minds of love and
with a life force that is strong and of good courage.
Please remain with us forever through love and ages of blessings.
We have prayed in the name of the True Parents. amen.
(November 9, 1980)
PLEASE REMEMBER YOUR CHILDREN WHO ARE WORKING HARD FOR THE RESTORATION OF THE WORLD
Please fill the entire world with
your compassion and love and grace and power.
As we bow down and consider again
your history of suffering in order to realize the hope of tomorrow,
we repent once again for our inadequacies of the past,
and we have come to a point where we must determine ourselves again
about this great mission which you have given to us.
Therefore, Father,
we earnestly hope and desire that you will
please urge us on,
increase our power,
and allow us to become true children
who are able to receive and attend your joyful will.
Father!
Please bless all the members of the unification movement
spread throughout the world.
This morning, too, they are offering devotion to you and
longing for this land of Korea
as the homeland of their faith.
Please be together with them
through your grace and through a relationship of abundant life
in those places where they are bowing down
in the direction of the place where their teacher dwells,
in those places where they are bending their knees
and bowing down deeply to you.
Please allow them to be unification workers who lack nothing
as tomorrow's kindred spirits,
as tomorrow's brothers,
and as tomorrow's family members.
Please bless your children who are spread out
in 127 nations around the world,
We know that all the tears shed and all the prayers cried out to you,
as well as all the foundations which your children have risked their lives for
in order to tread upon and move those nations
will not be for naught.
Therefore we earnestly hope and desire that
you will unite all the ancestors who are in spirit world
with all the descendents on the earth and that
you will gather them together from all nations centered on one nation
in order to realize the one nation and one world of your will.
We earnestly hope that you will fill with your grace every place
where people are gathered together centered on your name at this time.
We have prayed all these things in the name of the True Parents. Amen.
(April 26, 1981)
MANSEI!!!
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