Please Let Us Realize The Will Centered On Heaven Alone
Sun Myung Moon
November 25, 1956
Oh Father, who has worked so hard to hold on to and gather us! Please allow our minds and bodies to become one, and please let those of us who have bowed down before you to embody your commandments. It will not do unless our bodies, which have bowed down before you, become holy temples.
When we realize that we are the people of hope that you have sought over a long period of time while weeping, we come to know that you are truly in a pitiful position. We come to know your situation of having suffered all kinds of insults while carrying out the work of the providence until now.
Oh Father, who has suffered so many kinds of insults, when we think that you have endured, hoping for sons and daughters of hope even while going through various kinds of adversity, we realize that we are terribly worthless beings. But we have come before that Will filled with awe, and we have come with loyal devotion in order to resolve your grief.
Because of that, we are in the position of having had to go the course of the battle yesterday, and having to go it today and tomorrow, as well. We believe that you know that the course we intend to go is a course for the sake of your glory alone. Therefore, please come and be with us at this time. Please guide us to be able to act centered on you alone.
We have reached this position by believing in you alone on this earth, which has nothing which can be believed in, and by leaning on your commands on this earth, where there is no place to lean. We can not help but worry about today's providence, and we can not help but worry about tomorrow's providence. Therefore, please let our gratitude of today become eternal gratitude, and our voices, which are calling out to you today, become voices which call out to you eternally, and we earnestly hope and desire, beloved Father, that you will personally keep and protect us until we are able to sing songs of your glory together with all the things of creation.
Oh Father! Please calm your worried mind. We know that the worries of heaven are exceedingly great. But since now we want to take hold of those worries in your stead, and to fight with all our remaining strength for the sake of the Will of restoration which remains, Oh Father, please consider us and take comfort. Please take comfort through us about the sorrow of the people and the sorrow of religions.
Father! Please allow us to raise up an altar of victory, an altar of glory, and an altar of righteousness, by bringing together quickly in one place, your sons and daughters who are spread out in many different places, to be able to head towards a beam of the light of life where there can be joy. Earnestly hoping that you will allow your Will to be realized through this people and through all the people of this world, we have prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
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We Will Run Forward For The Sake Of God's Will
Sun Myung Moon
December 30, 1956
Beloved Father! Today we must leap up. We are lacking in strength, but we are facing this awesome conclusion of history in which it will not do unless we leap up scores of levels all at once. In spite of the fact that we are standing in a position where we must go though the process of judgement, today we are in a deep sleep.
Father! We are intoxicated by the world. We are travelling together with sin. We earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will establish us as victors who, after having cleared away all the elements of sin, are able to return the glory of victory to you, who are the center of the cosmos.
All the historical situations are tangled in ourselves today. Therefore, we earnestly hope and desire, Father, that, by our having cut all those tangles, and having our center of liberation, you will establish us as beings of joy who are able to bow down respectfully to you, while standing in the position of Jesus' friend.
Please do not allow those of us whom you have chosen for the sake of the restoration of the Kingdom of Heaven, to become people who live treading upon the ideal of the Kingdom of Heaven. Please allow us to be able to go forward again and again, to sacrifice again and again, and to fight again and again, until we are able to accomplish that ideal, led by the ideal of the Kingdom of Heaven. And we earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will allow us to be able to endure, fight, and win until the time that we can attend you as our universal father.
Father! Please take dominion over our minds eternally. We earnestly ask that you will allow us to become sons and daughters who are able to offer deep bows of gratitude to our father who is the center of everything, through a new universal standard of life now, and who are able to be submerged in your love. We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
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We Will Go The Way Of The Will Gratefully
Sun Myung Moon
March 10, 1957
If we, who have been called first, have been established before the universal Will of the entire providence, as elements which are like crystals for the sake of making an external form, please do not allow us to forget that we must live for the sake of accomplishing the purpose of the whole.
We started along the way of the public providence today, but even though you cut off all the things around us, we could not go over the peak of sacrifice, and we are disappointed in ourselves; we lament ourselves, and we reproach ourselves.
Beloved Father! When we go over the peak of morality and the peak of materialism, please allow us to be able to willingly submit to this, even if you strike those things. Even if you take everything we have from us, as long as our lives remain, we must be able to thank you for that, and even if you strike our bodies, as long as our lives remain, we must be able to thank you. Please lead us to be able to become people who are like this.
Since we want to take the example of the footsteps walked by many generations of our ancestors and by the prophets of old, please guide us. We know that Jesus walked a path like this, too, as Job did, and as Abraham did, too. Since we know that today we, too, must cross this kind of path, Father, please guide us so that it will not take a long time.
Please let us be prepared in order to go over the peak of indignation which is definitely coming our way, and we earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will allow us to become faithful servants of heaven who raise up the Lord of glory, by building up an altar of goodness, which we are able to go beyond while being grateful alone even if you scold and strike us.
By even going over peak after peak of sacrifice which the enemy is blocking, we will lead the family and go over the peak of the family, and lead the people and go over the peak of the people, and furthermore lead the world and go over the peak of the world and even leading heaven and going beyond. We earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will lead us to become sons and daughters who are able to appeal with confidence to you, our eternal father, and that you will allow us true life, true peace, true joy, and true glory. We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
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Please Let Us Become Children Who Can Be Entrusted With Your Will
Sun Myung Moon
June 9, 1957
Beloved Father! We know that the sorrow of Adam who lost the Garden of Eden, is our sorrow, and is the grief of heaven. And we know that the fact that our human ancestors could not enjoy the ideal of the Garden of Eden which they should have enjoyed, that is the grief of heaven.
Father! Since the responsibility is heavy for those of us who are walking to reverse the situation of the fall, we know that if you do not stretch out your hand and establish us once again in a purified position and grant us recreation, there are no people who could be more pitiful than we are. Therefore, Father of love, please stretch out your hand of compassion!
Since we want to offer our minds and bodies to you at this time, please receive us, and we earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will allow us to become people who are able to be entrusted with your Will by molding us according to your internal nature.
Oh Father! Since your lonely sons and daughters everywhere are bowing their heads and calling your name, please be together with them, and since we know that nothing can be accomplished through human strength alone, Father, please take dominion over our minds and bodies.
Please do not allow them to become stragglers along the course they must run. Please do not allow them to be losers in the course of the battle, and please let them become sons and daughters who are able to eternally sing of your glory, and praise your love.
Even if our circumstances are difficult, please allow us to overcome these circumstances, and earnestly hoping that you will allow us to become sons and daughters who, even if we collapse in the course of the battle, are able to hear your voice calling us and get up, we have prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
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Please Let Us Become Substantial Beings Who Realize The Will
Sun Myung Moon
March 9, 1958
Beloved Father! You have sought us by sending the saints and sages of righteousness, and you cultivated the foundation of our hearts by sending Jesus. Now we know that your Will remains that we must realize your Will substantially through our bodies. Since we know that our individual selves must realize your Will through families, and furthermore we must raise up all the things of creation to you, Father, please be with us.
We come to understand that building the Kingdom of Heaven which is limited to us is not your Will; rather, there still remains for us the responsibility of having to build the substantial Kingdom of Heaven where you are able to dwell in the realm of all things, as well. We know that it is heartbreaking for you to see that this way of ours, this way of the people who must cope with this kind of cosmic responsibility, is still remaining in the fallen world. Therefore, please guide us to be able to have eternal life by once again taking hold of our inadequate and weak selves.
If you lead us we will not despair. We will not hesitate. Rather, we earnestly hope and desire, beloved Father, that you will please lead us to become brave generals of heaven, who are able to become individuals whom you can move, and churches, nations, a world and the Kingdom of Heaven, which you can move, by having driven out the enemy Satan in order to possess your life and glory. Now we earnestly hope and desire that you will lead us to become sons and daughters who are able to raise up before you even the realm of all things while feeling your life through our bodies, and your heart through our minds.
While earnestly asking that you will let your good news be told to the multitudes of humankind today as well, we have humbly prayed in the name of the Lord. Amen.
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Please Awaken Us To Our Historical Destiny Of Accomplishing Your Will
Sun Myung Moon
March 23, 1958
Father! Since we know that before us lies the historical course of destiny of absolutely having to accomplish heaven's Will, please reach out to us with your power.
Please allow our minds and bodies to be filled completely with your Will alone. And if there is a person on earth to whom a certain responsibility of heaven has been entrusted, please do not allow that person to consider that Will of heaven through human concepts alone. Please allow us to become sons and daughters who act according to the movements of our minds, and please do not allow us to become sons and daughters whose bodies move first. And we earnestly hope and desire, beloved Father, that you will allow us to feel your heart of glory through our minds and bodies. We have come to know that we can experience and feel keenly the heart of our father who has carried out the providence throughout the course of history when we form a relationship with the concept of resurrection and the laws of heaven which you established, Father. Therefore, please allow us to have minds of love which are able to communicate with your heart, and please allow us to know your heart of restoration.
And please allow us to know your heart which is concerned in relation to this earth, and since we are inadequate people, we earnestly hope and desire, beloved Father, that you will please establish us as your people, by taking hold of us and awakening us.
And please allow your heart alone to penetrate our minds. We earnestly hope that you will lead us to become people who are sincerely devoted to you by allowing our bodies to be able to shed tears of lamentation in your presence, while experiencing and feeling keenly all that you felt in your heart throughout history. We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
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No Matter What Kind Of Suffering It Is, Please Let Us Win Over All Of It
Sun Myung Moon
September 14, 1958
Father!
Shall we say that the way that we are going and going is steep? Please allow us to understand that we can not compare our minds with the anguish of your heart, and we can not compare how we are mistreated with the footprints you have left in the realm of Satan which blocked you layer after layer.
Even while we go this steep way, please allow a sense of mission for taking responsibility for the Will of heaven to well up in our minds, and please allow us to become sons and daughters who are able to accompany you on your course by becoming friends of your sorrowful history even while we are sorrowful ourselves. Please allow us to become friends of your suffering heart by feeling those historical suffering together. Please allow us to be able to become object partners of joy of our eternal father, by becoming friends of your external sorrow at the same time as becoming friends of your internal sorrow, and becoming friends who share your indignant heart.
We have come to know that more than everything being a problem today, we ourselves, who are searching around in order to receive blessings, are the problem. But if humankind can not be aware of the sorrow that is in our hearts, then we know that there is no way for us to find the path of happiness. We have come to know that if we human beings, who must walk a path a suffering, want to avoid that path of suffering, we will never be able to avoid that path of suffering. Please act to awaken the many people who have forgotten endurance, which wins over indignation and mistreatment, to the fact that without that endurance they can not avoid any kind of suffering.
We have come to know the principle of heavenly morality that only when we go over the peak of sorrow, only when we go over the peak of suffering, only when we go over the peak of indignant hearts, are the blessings of that day decided. Now please allow us to hold onto your heart, to hold onto the earth, to hold onto all things, and while weeping, to be able to say, "Father, since your sorrow is my sorrow; your suffering is my suffering, and your troubles are my troubles, please entrust all that suffering to me, and you take a position of joy."
Since we know that we have the destined relationship of father and child which can move all things, and a love which we can not remove even if we wanted to, please let us be able to be acknowledged by you.
Since we know your heart which desires to restore the entire universe by establishing victorious sons among the great variety of people, please lead us to be able to have that heart in each of our bodies and to reveal it. Please allow us to become sons and daughters who are able to go forth keeping your way while being grateful even while on any kind of path of death or while being sacrificed as any kind of offering. We earnestly hope and desire that you will lead us to become people who realize your will under any circumstances, and who do not become people who betray you by cutting off our relationship with you. We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
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Since We Have Come To Know Your Will, Please Let Us Act On It
Sun Myung Moon
November 9, 1958
Father! The time is close at hand when we have to turn our footsteps towards heaven. We have come to know the greatness of your suffering; we have also come to know what the Will you are planning is, and we have come to know how difficult is the responsibility of the children that you are hoping we will act upon.
We have also come to understand that it will not do unless the person who knows your will, the person who will live in the garden you have allowed, sheds tears endlessly for you. We have come to know that when that person goes forth in your direction, it will not do unless he is wounded, and we know that it will not do unless that person goes forth together with you, Father. At the same time that we know that person must bear scars like that on his body, we know that, while preparing for your one day of judgement, he must appeal and lament bitterly without end with a grieving heart in his mind, too. And we know that we must form an eternal destined relationship with you, our father, who has been searching for those kinds of sons and daughters.
If there is a person who experiences and feels your heart keenly, and knows the concerns of heaven, by having opened his mind, then while embodying your sorrow and this people's sorrow, he could not help but weep aloud, and while embodying the sorrow of humankind, he could not help but weep aloud. We know that he will become a friend who is able to share together with all humankind, the sorrow which fills heaven and earth.
When we think about whether we ourselves are standing in that kind of position, we earnestly hope and desire, our Father, that you will allow us to become people who at least are able to be overwhelmed with shame if we are not able to establish our reputation before you, our father, who has walked the way of suffering who is so concerned, and who has worked so hard.
The people of the world do not want to go this way. We know that today many people desire and tomorrow they will desire to go this way in their minds, but they are staying as they are, unable to connect the way with their actions. Please allow us to realize the fact that the responsibility of resolving their situations is not with you alone, is not with any leaders alone, it is with us as well.
But since we have come to know the fact that the people who want to take responsibility for this grave fact are very few, we earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will allow us to be able to find and go forth on the path that heaven is urging us to go, and please let your earnest mind flow to overflowing, and please let your sorrowful heart flow to overflowing in our idle minds.
There are many people hoping for the blessings of heaven, and there are many people offering devotion in order to become your children, but today, which has come after six thousand years have passed, it is difficult to find devoted people, your true sons and daughters, who want to become offerings to you. Since we are very afraid that we might perhaps become a pitiful group which causes chaos along your providential course, please allow us to become people who are worried about ourselves.
Please allow us to analyze on our own, how much distance there is between the ideal original garden and the point we are at with our footprints, which were left while fighting the battle today. And while earnestly hoping that you will guide us to be able to be victorious in the battle for the sake of breaking through the standard of being worried, we have prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
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Please Let Us Dash Forward Constantly Towards The Will Today As Well
Sun Myung Moon
April 12, 1959
Today the Christians who are spread throughout the world are waiting impatiently and longing for the Kingdom of Heaven in their minds, but they are oblivious to the fact that a course of battle remains in relation to finding the Kingdom of Heaven. Furthermore, today, in the Last Days, history is changing, beliefs are changing, public sentiment is changing, traditions are changing, ideologies are changing, and hearts of love, which said they would die if they did not have that love, are changing. At this time, we long for an unchanging concept, an unchanging aspect, a being who could not change even if he would, that thing, that garden, that world, that dominion, that leader, that voice, that life, and that environment.
Father! Please open the breasts that have been closed. Even if there is persecution of the footsteps taken by the Unification Church members, please allow us to become believers who take that persecution not as evil elements which are blocking our path, but who are able to use it as a stimulating action which drives us closer to the heart of heaven.
Please let us realize that the persecution is not persecution, but rather an act to connect your heart with ours.
Please let our minds feels grief that we have been people who blocked the path of your grace. Please let us become people whose hearts are stimulated and whose sense of mission is burning, who are able to come happily when you tell us to come, and who are able to go happily when you tell us to go. If we have been grateful for the voice which called us, please allow us to be grateful for the voice which commands us, and please allow us to become brave people of heaven who are able to charge into the enemy camp, and to become lords of the heavenly world. Since we know that there will be people who collapse shot by arrows, we earnestly hope and desire that you will guide us to not become people who are defeated or retreat in that situation.
Please let these sons and daughters realize that at the same time that there are moments when, submerged in joy, we discuss with our father, on the other hand, there are also moments of crying out in indignation and shedding blood and tears on the battlefield.
Please allow us to become able to take responsibility for joy, take responsibility for sorrow, take responsibility for the battle, take responsibility for mistreatment, and in front of the judgement seat of the Last Days, deny the things of history and say, "Oh Father, please raise your hands and bless us. Oh Father, considering me, please bear your indignation. Oh Father, considering me, please bear your suffering and mistreatment. Oh Father, considering me, please lay aside your hard work." Because that you have hoped for these kinds of sons and daughters for six thousand years, and you have been searching carefully for six thousand years, Father, we are stricken with awe and grief. We have been oblivious to your gaze as you searched, your appearance as you searched, and your careful footprints.
Now please let us stand before you, please let us live connected with you please let us go the way in which we must search carefully instead of you. After we have gone that way completely, we will be the people who must teach other people, who do not know the way, how they can go carefully and find the direction. And since we are the people who have received that heavenly command, please do not allow us to become people who retreat while shedding sorrowful tears here.
We know that many groups are not needed at this time today. This time is a time when we must overcome and go on; it is a time when we must settle accounts and go on; it is a time when we must complete and overcome everything, and it is a time when we must appear just as we are. We have come to know that this way is a way that a complaining person can not go; it is a way that a person who excuses himself can not go, and it is a way along which a person who establishes himself by himself will retreat.
Since we have come to know that this way is the way of the cross which Jesus went shedding blood, and it is the way of the prolongation of Golgotha, we have realized that this is a way that we must go while wanting to excuse ourselves, but not being able to, and while wanting to set ourselves up and boast, but not being able to, and while feeling anger when being stepped upon, and going on. We are indignant when we think about the saints of heaven who walked this kind of path during the six-thousand year course of the providence.
But more than that, when we come to know your heart is more indignant than that, we realize we are people who have to repent. We know that we are in a situation of absolutely having to repent. All of our hopes are yours, Father; everything we have is yours, Father; the center of our love and our hearts is you, and we know that if there is a person who can not feel these kinds of things, he is a pitiful person.
Even while shedding blood on the cross, since Jesus knew you were that kind of father, and held on to you, he was not afraid even of death. We long for his character which is transcendent and calm and even asked for blessings upon his enemies. We long for those footsteps. Where is the prince of victory who is able to laugh at changes in history, changes in daily life and changes in himself both today and tomorrow?
Father, we are longing and longing. The lord of history, the lord of the present age, and the lord of the future need not be divided; rather, we long for the time in which one substantial being appears and transfers your heart to humankind, for that world, for that garden. A group must appear and a religion must appear which are able to call you, "Father."
Please allow us to be able to forget everything, to prepare to search for that, and to devote our hearts and fulfill our responsibilities completely. While earnestly hoping that you will allow us to become sons and daughters who are able to not mind any kind of sacrifice, to rush forward in order to pay indemnity for everything, and to stand in your presence, we have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
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Please Let Us Go The Way Of The Will Of Our Father Sincerely
Sun Myung Moon
May 8, 1960
Today our unworthy selves have bowed down before you as a group which has been denounced and driven out. We know that on the path we have taken, heading towards a goal others do not know about, scars from the thrones will remain, and we will be wounded. But, Father, who knows that we must overcome and not mind those things, please allow us to realize that it will not do unless we completely prepare ourselves, pledge and determine ourselves to go that way.
Since we know that it will not do unless at this point we form a true heartistic relationship with heaven, Father, please hold on to us by personally reaching out to us. Please hold us in your embrace of love with both arms. You must have looked forward to and hoped for that so much! Now we can fully imagine your heart, and we can fully imagine your heartbreak.
Please let us repent once again for our lives of the past in which we were not able to feel grateful, even though our unworthy selves, who are not able to call you, "Father," have received the amazing grace of being able to be forgiven of our sins due to the altars of blood raised up by the many prophets. And please bear with the fact that we have come before you empty-handed, even though we should be able to bring and offer results to you.
As you are not a father who requests things of the world, we offer only earnest minds and earnest hearts to you, Father. We have come because we want to offer you ourselves, who are weeping because we long for you, and want to see your face. We came longing for your touch, and we wanted to hold on to your wounded hand and shed tears. We came to hold on to our haggard father, to our father who is overwhelmed by grief, our father who wandered in order to find his lost children and did not mind even though the wounds of his mind and body were severe. If your sons and daughters, who call you "father" filled with this kind of mind, are gathered here, then just as you found me and called me at that kind of moment, I know that you will not cast them away when they have come to that kind of point.
Father! The way you told us to go was not a lonely way; as we have gone it, we have found that it is a way of awesome grace. And we have realized that the way on which you drove us out while telling us to die, was not a way prepared for us to die. When we come to understand these inner reasons, what more is there we could ask for? We have understood that all these are acts to show us testimonies of the work of our father who worked so hard before us. We are grateful for your having allowed us to be able to even weep tears of inspiration and to experience that kind of feeling.
Now what did the people who have gathered here come to find? What did they come here to see, and what kind of relationships did they come here to form? We know that the only things to show them are tears and heartbreaking situations, and the only relationships to be formed are distressing ones. Nevertheless, without this relationship, without this situation, we can not know where to go, and since these people have come worrying whether they will disappear and come to lament as sacrifices to Satan, we earnestly hope and desire that you will hold on to them this moment.
We know that if you have children you can hold and weep, and you have sons and daughters whom you can call by name, "Hey, So-and-so," from that point on, the acts of heaven will lead this people, and that will become a beginning which heads towards heaven, by moving the hearts of the people of the world, who are asleep. If in this place young hearts are on fire, and holding hands together, and there is a movement shouting out, "Hey, So-and-so, let's go work for the Will!", the way for this people to live will open up, and armies of life will come and fight together in the garden of death.
We have gathered together longing for those kinds of people, and we have gone forth fighting in order to go such a way, and we have gone forth in order to show that to all people, together with our father, by raising up an altar of victory in that kind of place. Therefore, please do not allow this first resolution of our minds to change, and please let us become your sons and daughters whose sincerity and fidelity, that we have determined and want to give you, do not bend. Please let us become your sons and daughters who keep and do not change that resolution or that loyalty as long as the moral principle of heaven does not change. While earnestly hoping for and desiring this, we have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
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Please Protect Your Children Who Are Fighting For The Will In Each Place
Sun Myung Moon
September 25, 1960
Please do not allow us to become people who are not up to the great work heaven has entrusted to us, or who become exhausted and fall away. Even if we collapse over and over again, even if we vomit blood and die, we earnestly hope and desire that you will allow us to become your sons and daughters who are able to collapse after having completed this mission. We know that your sons and daughters are spread out in all directions, and shedding tears, they are praying and fighting for this work, in lonely and dangerous positions. Father, we earnestly hope and desire that you will be together with them in those positions, as well.
We know that you are not forgetful. We know that when they were lonely, you held on to them; you strengthened those who were appealing to you, as they embraced the Will in desolate positions, and you comforted their hearts. Father, at this time, also, please act with the same heart, with the same works, with the same power. We earnestly hope and desire that you will allow us to become sons and daughters who are able to endure to the end, to fight to the end, until the final remaining wall has been occupied, and who are able to go forward taking responsibility for humankind to the end.
Not only here on the Korean Peninsula, but far overseas as well, many of your children are facing this place, weeping, and appealing to you. Even though their skin colors are different, and their living circumstances are different, relating to the Will, they are brothers and sisters who have the destined relationship of one bloodline. Therefore, we earnestly hope and desire that you will please be with them in each place they have gathered, and embrace them with the fire of grace. Earnestly hoping that you will allow a movement of life to appear which is able to sing of our eternal destined relationship centered on you in the world of the heart, even though we are far apart, we have humbly prayed in the name of the Lord. Amen.
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Please Let Us Go All The Way On The Path We Must Go
Sun Myung Moon
October 2, 1960
Father! As this is the final time when all sins must be atoned for, today our minds feel extreme anxiety. This land is completely filled with groans of suffering. Please allow a day to come when your heart at the time of creation can blossom again, by having the precious son of heaven be born, and by having him be able to atone for the suffering and guilt of history. And we earnestly hope and desire that you will allow a victorious new garden to begin through him. Since we know that it will not do unless that kind of world is realized, please let us be able to bear this real suffering.
We know that peak after peak of blood still remain on the way we must go, and a long, difficult, range of dangerous high mountains is standing in our way. But this way is not a way we alone are going. It is a way on which you have gone back and forth before us, scores of times, thousands of times, millions of times.
Now we have also realized the fact that it is not you who should pave the way on difficult paths, humankind must pave the way and go forward. Please let us be able to take over the final footstep for the sake of our father who has worked so hard, while going along this rugged path. Since the way we must go still remains, even though we collapse along the way, please let us be able to go, treading in the footprints of our father, and taking the example of the bloodstains left by our father.
We have come to know that when we offer our bodies, which have been wounded and torn, to you as living offerings, you justify your children before all of heaven and earth and bless them. Since we have realized that we must go as far as that kind of position, please do not let us become exhausted until we reach that point.
Please do not let us forget the fact that each time we were exhausted, you offered us your arm; each time we were disappointed and lonely, heaven urged us on, and before we did any work, you had already worked hundreds and thousands of times for us.
You have gone and pioneered this way without resting. Please let us be filled with minds which want to hold you with awe-stricken minds, knowing that you are our father who went forth fighting without becoming exhausted for the sake of our individual lives, and you worked hard without resting in order to pioneer this way because Satan, who is opposing this way without resting, exists. Please let frustrated hearts, which call out to you like crazy, explode in each of our minds.
Please comfort people like that. Since we know that you are promising a great heavenly work and a new world of promise, we earnestly request and desire that you will let us become sons and daughters who are able to raise high before the entire cosmos the glory of victory and songs of victory, by having endured until the end, until that position is established by dealing with those kinds of people. We have prayed in the name of the Lord. Amen
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Please Let Us Become A Movement Which Remains By Having Endured And Endured
Sun Myung Moon
March 22, 1964
It is regrettable and lamentable that you have to go forward with a sorrowful heart.
You are a being to be pitied. You are a being who has been mistreated. We know that human beings have at least a way to betray you and turn their backs on you, but since you do not have a way to betray us or to turn your back on us, you have gone on and on. We dare to say we know well the way of our father who has no need of the word "retreat". How anxious, how serious, how pressed your mind must be! Wanting to become genuine sons and daughters of filial piety, and faithful subjects and virtuous women, we have knelt down and bowed our heads before you. Please allow us to become sons and daughters who are able to repent for the past when we were not able to appeal to you asking to become like parts of garments or like rocks that are able to go the way of the cross.
The lonely Unification movements in each area are appealing to you, Father. They know your commands. We know that you are in the frustrating situation of having to urge and spur their footsteps along their way, even though they know the course they must go. We know that the people who endure and remain at that point will be blessed by you, Father, but those who fall away will be accused by later generations, and will lament. Father, please let us have bold and courageous minds, and please allow us to become a movement which remains to the end having endured and endured.
We also know that your steps as you go are faster than we can imagine. Your mind is such that if we have done a thousand things, you want to order us to do ten thousand. We know that your mind is such that you are looking for sons and daughters who stand in a position of being able to be helped by you. We earnestly hope and desire that you will allow us to become genuine sons and daughters in relation to the Will, and to be able to genuinely receive everything that you have told us today.
In order to find you, we will have to become sons and daughters of filial piety, and in order to find that nation, we will have to become loyal subjects and virtuous women. That idea is holy, but the way we go is one of misery. The content is beautiful, but it has appeared as a path of death. It has been a path on which we had to have hope inside even while going the path of death. As you are doing that, we, who are your children, have to do that, and as you are going that kind of way, we, too, must go that kind of way of destiny. Therefore, please let us not become exhausted along this road, have indefatigable hearts, and be decided as the final victors. Please let us become a movement which remains by persevering and enduring until the day when we can receive the blessing, the day of rest when you can say, "You have now won the victory; you belong to me, and all heaven and earth belong to you, who are my sons and daughters." We earnestly hope that you will allow us to become a movement which participates in the suffering until we greet that day. We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
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We Thank You That We Have Come To Participate In The Way Of Your Will
Sun Myung Moon
April 12, 1964
Until now, representing this people, and representing this Korean Peninsula. we have endured and gone forth on this lonely way while shedding tears. How many thousands, how many millions of times have we called out to you from positions of being severely persecuted and ridiculed along that lonely way? We know that each time we called out to you with pierced hearts, you wept, too. We earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will please have the sons and daughters who are participating here in this place where you are weeping today, participate in the place of the world victory as well, about which we can rejoice in future generations. On the way in front of those who are going this way, there are many enemies. There are also innumerable spiritual enemies. But even if enemies present opposing conditions spiritually and physically along this way
that we are going in relation to your Will, if we have conviction and determination that we will go this way by taking the example of the heart of our father, who has worked so hard, then all of those things will be removed.
We know well that the principle through which you established and guided us until today was like that. We have realized that after God overcame sorrow first, he gave that sorrow to us, and we have realized that after God overcame a position of suffering first, he told us to go through suffering.
Father! The Unification altar, which is centered on the Korean people today, has appeared before this people. It is not by chance that we are able to openly shout out our entire idea through having this kind of environment today. We are able to speak in a free environment while looking up at many people, holding our heads up, and holding our chests out freely today, but please do not let us forget that until we came to exist, God worked very hard for six thousand years, according to that kind of principle.
Isn't it something we should be very grateful about, and isn't it glorious that we are able to walk like this with God on the site of this holy castle? Therefore, please allow us to act while being genuinely grateful to you. Please let us think that our voices, which are crying out, represent the voices of the people of Israel who cried out long ago in the wilderness. Please bless us to be able to go forward while loving, having become heroes of heaven who are advancing into places where arrows, persecution, and bombs are falling, while carrying heaven on our backs, carrying history on our backs, carrying the Kingdom of Heaven of hope on our backs, embracing the true world. Earnestly hoping this, we have prayed all these things in the name of the beloved Lord. Amen.
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Even If It Is A Path Of The Thorns Of Suffering, We Will Go For The Sake Of The Will
Sun Myung Moon
December 26, 1965
There are many people who worship heaven, but there are few people who say they will take responsibility for the sake of heaven. We know that there are many people who know that the way of heaven is good, but they want to avoid the path of thorns that lies along the way.
Father! You have toiled for our sakes throughout countless ages. But today humankind wants to avoid the path of toil which must be overcome in order to go along the true way, the way of heaven. Since they want to entrust the sorrow and suffering of humankind to you, as well, we earnestly hope that you will pardon them.
Today people of the Unification Movement have gathered before you. Different from other people, we have come to know your heart, but different from your situation, we have done what we want with the way of hope you left behind, and we have resisted offering our entire lives. Please let us reveal frankly before you now at this time our selves that are like that.
We are praying that, according to your Will, we can go this road of life, which must be gone anyway. We will have to go the path of death together with you, the path of thorns together with you, and the path of being rejected together with you. We earnestly hope that since we have minds which want to live together with you, Father, you will please take pity on us and embrace us.
We earnestly hope and desire that you will establish us as children who are able to struggle and who can not deny the fact that we are your sons and your daughters, no matter what anyone says. If we have formed the destined relationship of love with you, and if we have been justified as your children who have that blood relationship with you from which we can not separate even if we would, we know that nothing at all can deny our relationship with you. Please let us become people who repent of our own accord for our past of not having been able to become your genuine sons and daughters, and who come before you humbly and ask forgiveness.
We earnestly hope that you will let us become your young children who are able to say you are definitely our father, no matter how dirty and shabby we may look, and who are able to say you are definitely our father, no matter how sorrowful your heart may be, or how many worries you have in your heart, and who are able to lament over not being able to fully offer you filial piety, and who are able to hold and comfort our father. We have prayed all these things in the name of the Lord.
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Please Let Us Become Unification Church Members Who Realize Your Will
Sun Myung Moon
September 1, 1968
Father! We know that the world has gone through a course of history which has no center. There are many Christians throughout the whole world, but in reality, centered on which denomination, centered on which tribe, centered on which family, centered on which individual will heaven lower its anchor? We have come to realize that there is no foundation on which that can happen. We are convinced that the reason the Unification religion has appeared on the earth today is in order to lay that kind of foundation, and in order to do the worldwide mission of the new age. Because of that, we must not become people who are pushed aside in relation to the present and future historical courses. Therefore, we earnestly hope and desire that you will allow us to clearly know that we must represent heaven on the earth and become heroes of heaven for the sake of having the power which is able to trample the evil world and swallow the evil world.
We know how sorrowful a course the process of restoration is. Therefore, today, please let us realize that the essence that has not died and has remained for six thousand years until now is now in our own selves which represent the Adam and Eve of the Garden of Eden. Please let us understand that the events that happened in Adam and Eve's family are events that have happened in our families and in ourselves; the terrible situation that happened between Cain and Abel, is a situation centered on our own selves; Noah's family also represented our own selves; after Abraham, Moses, and Jesus until now all the events of the course of history are miserable events of history that should have happened to ourselves.
We earnestly hope that you will let us clearly understand at this time that it will not do unless we acknowledge that we are beings who must remain as substantial beings of resurrection who have the real power of resurrection even if we experience death in that tragic history.
Because we know that Jesus came to this earth and passed through that kind of historical destiny, please let us be convinced that it will not do unless we hold the supremacy of victory which is able to do that in order to become his successors, and in order to inherit his destined relationship. And we earnestly hope and desire that you will let us become your sons and daughters who are able to determine the position of victory and go forth.
In the midst of all kinds of hardships, all kinds of trials, all kinds of difficulties, all kinds of persecution, we have not been ruined. Through all that we have gone forward sincerely centered on your Will. We have gone forth with this restored family as our standard. Therefore please let us know clearly that now our individual selves will have to pass through the family, too; all the families on earth will have to pass through the family, too, and it will not do unless the tribes, peoples, and nations pass through the destined relationships of families, too, into the nation of hope which you desire, Father.
We earnestly hope that you will let us become your sons and daughters who are able to build a world of peace according to your Will, and who are able to realize the Kingdom of Heaven of joy. And furthermore, we earnestly hope that you will let all the human beings on earth become your people, and the entire world become your world. We have humbly prayed all these things in the holy name of the True Parents. Amen.
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Please Let Us Become Children Who Are Able To Go Directly Towards The Will Alone
Sun Myung Moon
November 24, 1968
Father! Just as you have related to us with the heart of a parent relating to his children, please allow our hearts to swell with adoration of our parents, while we relate to you. And please let us share together the many grief-filled situations you have had until now from a position where your mind and ours have become one.
The day when we are able to hold you and comfort you should come quickly. We earnestly hope and desire, Father, that in the midst of that you will let us be able to be grateful while realizing on our own the lofty preciousness of our father.
Father! Since, we are people who must go out to the world anyway, please allow us to quickly prepare everything necessary for going out to each nation of the world. Please allow us to become wise children who can go straight towards the destination we must reach quickly. We earnestly hope and desire that you will allow us to be able to go straight to the places we must go, and even though many people rest along the way, we people of the Unification Movement will not rest.
We must know the fact that in the place we must go now there is a path of trials, suffering and hard work in front of us. Furthermore, we must know the fact that the swords and guns of the enemy are blocking our way.
We know that the more eager our minds are to go straight there, the more we must have minds with attitudes of wanting to act for our father, minds which love our father, in order to easily overcome everything that will appear there in our external environment. We know that without those kinds of minds, we can not go straight along this path.
We know the fact that you carried out the providence for the long period of six thousand years because you were not able to meet one person who was able to go straight on this way, and because the conditions which have to be indemnified could not be overcome. Please let us know clearly that that one person and those conditions of indemnity have been put on the way in front of us.
Just as you needed a true character and true conditions of indemnity while going this way looking for us, we, who are looking for you will have to have a true character and establish true conditions of indemnity. We know that we must be able to liberate ourselves from Satan; that is to say, at the same time that we become people who are able to subjugate Satan, we must stand in a position of leading all the people, of offering sacrifices to you, and of not being attacked by Satan. Unless we do that, we will end up like wanderers who are not able to go to you even if we want to. When we realize that our way is long and pressing, we know we must go straight, and it will not do for us to take a detour on this way that is so far and so pressing. We know that the time is far too short for us to pass over this long way.
Father! We know that when we feel hearts that are stimulated so that it will not do unless we become completely for the Will, then we will be able to call you our father, and an earnest heart will well up. We know that you are always acting in that position. Therefore, we earnestly hope that you will allow us to become your children who struggle to dash to you with earnest hearts with the goal of resolving grief. We have humbly prayed all these things in the holy name of the True Parents. Amen.
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Please Let Us Become People Who Can Save The World
Sun Myung Moon
March 11, 1970
Wasn't your search for the individuals, Adam and Eve, for six thousand years in order to save the world in that way? We must understand how great your pain is as you look at the sorrowful souls of the many spirits in spirit world. Please allow us to realize that it was your holy mission and hope to liberate all of them.
We earnestly hope and desire that you will allow us to realize that only if the day comes when all the people in the realm of the world together have a foundation of victory which goes beyond the world, will we be able to have the restoration of heaven and the restoration of earth, of course, and be able to welcome the enemy.
We must become sons and daughters who are able to love the world completely, and who are able to go anywhere in the world. Until now we have been the Unification Movement which has been fighting, holding on to Korea, but
we must become a movement which is fighting for the world. Therefore, even if we shed tears, please allow us to shed them for the people of the world, and even though we were born as children of Korea, please let us have hearts which love not just the people of Korea alone, but rather are able to love all the people of the world. Our own individual selves and our descendents, too, must be able to stand as people with those kinds of hearts.
We must give our full effort to attend you, to embrace both worlds, and to find a world that is unified ideologically. To the starving people, we will have to give food, for sure; to the people who are in rags, we will have give clothes, for sure; and to the people who are sleeping under the eaves, we must give a place to sleep comfortably, for sure. We will have to go through many grief-filled situations, for sure. When we think about the fact that we have the destiny of having to find the world which was lost, the nations which were lost, the families which were lost, and the individuals which were lost, we realize that we can not sustain it ourselves.
Now we must hold on to the destined relationship so that at least our minds will be able to remain alive, and go forward determined to die. Please allow us to become your sons and daughters who are able to have a view of unification history such that even if I collapse, the world must not collapse; even if I am ruined, the world must not be ruined, and please let us realize that this is what is called Unification Thought.
Please allow all the people gathered here to realize that it is not your thought to let the nation be ruined and to save the individuals. Please allow us to realize that we can not relate to the world unless we become a movement which is able to seek the world, even if we have to sell the nation, and please allow these people to be able to have a day in which they are able to do that. We have humbly prayed all these things in the holy name of the True Parents. Amen.
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Establishment Of The Ideal World
Sun Myung Moon
March 17, 1970
The ideal world is not accomplished in the imaginary realm of ideas; rather, it is accomplished in stimulating, substantial reality. This is the final request of humankind, but we did not really know that it is accomplished centered on one's family.
Now the mission that the Unification movement must go forward carrying on its shoulders is a world centered on the family. Burning with the conviction that the family exists for the sake of the world, that it exists for the sake of the nation, that it exists for the sake of the people, that it exists for the sake of the tribe, the entire family must become a group which is able to live for the sake of accomplishing that goal. We must believe firmly the fact that when we begin to act like this, in the not too distant future, the entire world will be completely embraced in the realm of dominion where you are able to love us.
We must discover that we are shameful beings in relation to the holy word: the blessing. Our lives of the past were individual level lives. They were not lives centered on personalities which were related to the cosmic history, rather, they were individual lives which had fallen into ruin. Since each of us must become able conquer these kinds of selves, Father, please bless us.
Now we are not going forward for any one individual; rather, we must pioneer the foundation of joy of the family, and with that as our motivation, we must go forward to accomplish that kind of realm of love and family which can be shown to the people. We earnestly ask and desire, Father, that you will let us become those kinds of responsible people.
Father! We know that it is the Will of hundreds of thousands of ages to establish a family which represents the people and to find a Unification tribe in that way. Now we must straighten ourselves and come before you with a sincere attitude. We know that we must establish a Four Position Foundation in which the man and the woman become one and attend their parents and lead their children for the sake of that. We know that this is the realization of the ideal of creation. We have heard the phrase, "the completion of the Four Position Foundation," thousands and hundreds of thousands of times, but we lament that we are people who have not been able to love that definitive content in reality. Please bear with us. Please allow us to feel the stimulation of love which is able to do that.
We will have to complete that kind of mission, bring the people and the world along, and connect them with you, Father. We earnestly hope and desire that you will please let us connect with the essential condition of power, by an absolute subject partner and an absolute object partner becoming one, and by making this into the realm of the dominion of love, please do not let us be inadequate to act before the world and please let us realize the realm of one family which is able to stand in dignity as beautiful and harmonious beings. We have humbly prayed in the holy name of the True Parents.
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Please Let Us Fulfill The Missions Of People Who Are Going The Way Of The Will
Sun Myung Moon
April 8, 1970
Father! Today also the Will of your providence is being carried out. We feel your Will in our cells, and no matter what anyone says, we will have to become people who carry the responsibility of having to walk step by step truthfully in the direction of the summit which you desire. We know that there are many times when we forget that we are such people.
We know that there is a way of restoration which can not be gone without going through the course of the pioneer which humankind must absolutely go. As for handling this mission, as family members of the Unification Church, please let us stand in a position of being able to be of help and not to be a burden, by giving all the strength we have, and going over the crest of the individual the crest of the family, the crest of the tribe, the crest of the people, and the crest of the nation, which you left for us. We earnestly hope and desire that you will allow us to become children who adapt ourselves to the Will and who know that going out first before the church says, "Let's go," is the way of walking the normal path.
Please remember your children who have endured and remained until now. Please let us re-determine ourselves for the hope of tomorrow, and we earnestly ask that you will allow us to become your sons and daughters who, together with the Will, are able to go powerfully over the crest after crest that will approach us in the future along the course of our lives. And we earnestly hope and desire that you will give us the blessing of becoming sons and daughters who become your joy by meeting again in the position of final victory, and whom you are able to set forth and boast about.
Please take us as your children who are able to go over the historical crest that you are leading us over by your taking charge of everything about today, and by your taking charge of all our future lives. We have prayed all these things in the holy name of the True Parents. Amen.
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Please Let Us All Walk The Family Level Course Of Responsibility For The Will
Sun Myung Moon
March 17, 1970
Father! We know that now before us remains the course of responsibility of having to move the families rather than a course of responsibility to move individuals.
We know that the Will which the Unification Church is hoping for is not for the sake of saving individuals alone; rather, it is for the sake of saving families. Because of that we have walked this way with earnest minds which want to be held in your embrace, and which long for families which are able to eternally praise you and which long for you to reach out with your holy blessing.
Even the people who have not been able to walk together here, and who have left behind mistakes before the Will, must become sons and daughters who are able to stand holding up the value of the ideal. More than our standing in a position of saying, "I am So-and-so," we must become responsible people of both the internal and external aspects who are able to prepare a starting point for the whole by becoming the standard for the construction of the world, and who are able to become the key point of the people with sincere minds which are able to give our full devotion to your Will and hold up the situation of heaven.
As for the individuals, we must represent the families from the position of individuals. As for the groups, we must represent the families of those groups; in the case of the nations, we must represent the families of that nation, and we must become families which are able to represent the providence of the world. And we earnestly hope and desire that you will allow us to become families which go forth embracing heaven and earth, and embrace the world, while searching for one family of peace which you can depend on.
The more we think that we have not reached that position, the more we realize that there remains before us the course we must now go as families of pioneers. Now the time has passed in which God told the individual Noah to build the ark for 120 years. The time has passed in which you anticipated Abel would offer a sacrifice. The age has passed which was through individuals such as when you called Abraham from Haran. *** The age has passed in which you called Moses individually. The age has passed in which you sent Jesus individually and set him on a public course.
Since now rather than individuals, you have called the new families of the Unification Movement, we know that the time has come that the families must present themselves. Please let us realize that the ultimate responsibility which the family must fulfill is that the couple must absolutely fulfill the duty of filial piety and the duty of loyalty in relation to you. Please let us realize that in our lives we can leave behind an absolute new beginning, and that the way to establish the philosophical key point which can prepare an eternal historical nature related to heaven, is the way of a family which has filial piety and loyalty. And please let us realize that this is the hope of the families that must represent the nation and the world.
We earnestly hope and desire that everywhere the families go they will be able to offer themselves completely to you as families that have been blessed at the same time that they praise the love of heaven day by day, while the couple thinks of the Will holding hands, and while struggling to overcome the world stage. We have prayed all these things in the holy name of the True Parents. Amen
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Please Do Not Let Us Be Inattentive For Even A Moment While Going The Way Of The Will
Sun Myung Moon
May 31, 1970
Father! today at this time we will have to come to a new realization. We must realize that a cosmic time is approaching us, and we must realize that the Will is hoping for a new age through us. Please let the Will connect with our one moment, as it hopes to do, and please let the great distant historical age form a relationship with our church. We earnestly hope and desire, Father,
that you will let us clearly realize one more time that it will not do unless we stand in the subject partner position which is able to transform everything in our daily lives into something heavenly on our own, during each individual moment for the sake of that.
We know that the Unification Church family members who are spread throughout the world are going the way of suffering not in order to be ruined in the end; rather, it is in order to become your sons and daughters as new favorites of yours. Since we know that this is the way of absolute destiny that it would not do to be without, in order to peel off our faults be born again, please let us absorb it and overcome it with grateful minds. And we earnestly hope and desire that you will let us become your sons and daughters who go forth taking this responsibility in order to take hold of history and realize the hope of tomorrow.
As for this movement transforming everything in our lives into something heavenly, please let us live in the realm of joy by attending heaven moment by moment from this moment on. When we become your sons and daughters who offer endless devotion in each moment in that kind of realm of life, we know that the Kingdom of Heaven can take its place automatically in that realm of life.
We know that as we go forward moment by moment with the standard of victory, in overcoming the way of suffering to a level of ten, nine levels of that must include the content of heaven and earth, and by having the realm of victory of our entire lives, we must offer ourselves to you completely as good fruits.
Please let us believe firmly that when we become sons and daughters whom you can not forget by our lives becoming something you can be proud of, we can receive the special privilege of becoming princes and princesses of the heavenly world. We earnestly request and desire that you will not allow us to become foolish sons and daughters who are inattentive about the course of our lives.
We earnestly request that you will allow us to become your sons and daughters who are able to put forth endless efforts for the sake of making a nucleus which can take possession of tomorrow, and who invest all our strength in this moment today for the sake of tomorrow. We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the True Parents. Amen.
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Please Let Us Have Humble Minds While Bowing Our Heads Before You Of Our Own Accord
Sun Myung Moon
July 12, 1970
Father! We know that among your sons and daughters who are living on this earth, there must appear sons and daughters of filial piety who are able to resolve your sorrow and your historical indignation.
Father! We have come to realize that you have been able to go forth enduring this way of so many crises during the long course of history because you had the internal power of wanting to meet the son you longed for. When we realize those things, we have no way to repress our embarrassment and shame before you when we think about whether we have become the sons and daughters you want to meet who are able to let you forget all the difficulties of the course of history, and who are truly able to welcome our father who is like that.
Even if we who are like that offer our entire minds and bodies, and become living offerings before your Will, we are people who do not have any kind of condition to be able to repay you who have overcome such tedious and sorrowful adversity. Each time we think of ourselves, who are like this, we feel once again how pitiful you are, Father.
We have come to think once again about how lonely and miserable your position is, Father, since it will not do unless you can boast before Satan that these kinds of sons and daughters are your sons and daughters. Therefore, on this earth you definitely must have sons and daughters about whom you can be confident.
Father! We must be able to be concerned about your dignity, prestige, and situation. We know that we are far too inadequate and shameful people to appear before your Will even though we seem to have something internally and externally. Therefore, we must have minds which are filled with awe and gratitude for the grace of your having sought us. Please let us become your sons and daughters who are able to realize that we must live in a position like that of a servant with our heads bowed of our own accord with that kind of mind filling our daily lives and filling the course of our lives.
We know that only if we stand in this kind of position is there a condition for us to be able to become object partners who can be comforted by you, and to have our humility be praised by you, and to be praised by you when you see us adjusting ourselves to your Will. Oh Father, please once again have mercy on us, your children who have not been able to reach that kind of point. We earnestly hope that you will let us become sons and daughters who go forth without any inadequacy to handle the mission even if we offer our lives completely and shoulder the final cross which is to remain in the Last Days. We have humbly prayed all these things in the holy name of the True Parents. Amen.
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Please Let Us Become Victorious Sons And Daughters Who Are Able To Go Straight Towards The Will
Sun Myung Moon
August 12, 1970
Father! Today each time we feel that we are the descendents of the fall who have not been able to have the position of a destined relationship with you, we discover that we are people who can not relate to you without tears, and we can not attend you even if we want to, without knowing your sorrowful situation. When we think about this, we realize that we are people who are fit to die thousands of times, and even if we die a lonely death by ourselves, we are beings who should not have any grief over that. Each time we realize this, we come to clearly understand that you are always reaching out to us with your lofty, precious grace.
A person who is going a solitary way understands well the circumstances of a pitiful person because of having felt that while living in such a situation. We must understand that the people who go the way of the pioneer, who struggle to cut off the sorrow of the people, and who struggle to cut off the sorrow of humankind, are not people to be pitied. Since our father has gone that kind of way, we must understand the fact that in order for us to become your children and to become your heirs, we can not help but go that kind of way.
Father! Have we come here at this time in order to save our own lives? Or have we come in order to pioneer the way of destiny we must go? Or have we come for the sake of our families, for the sake of our tribes, for the sake of our people, for the sake of our nation, or for the sake of the world? We must once again look hard at what kinds of people we are, who have come to this place what kind of mission we have and what kind of goal we are heading towards. In order to do that we must criticize ourselves once again for our past which did not know how to grieve over our loose selves and for ourselves which were made up of falsehood and hate, and we must frankly reveal to you our real characters of the past, and we must receive your criticism and your judgement. We must become your sons and daughters who are able to realize that we are in that kind of pitiful position.
Father! Please come at this time, and if there are any circumstances about which you want to counsel us, please counsel us about all those things.
Please let all the things our minds imagine and all the things our minds feel correspond with your heart. Then we will have to become sons and daughters in whom you are able to have confidence, and we must become sons and daughters who are able to go straight towards the Will by being people who are not inadequate in relation to the Will you are hoping for.
And not only that, we will have to realize that it is you who are pitiful and who has hoped that we would shoulder that responsibility in relation to the course of restoration and the road of restoration which could not be gone if it were not for us whom you have found. When we think that you, who are the Omniscient, Almighty, Lord of creation, are standing in that kind of miserable position, we know that it is a regrettable fact that no one can even imagine at all.
Father! We must arrange our clothes and be able to call you our father who is working so hard. We must imagine that you are our father who is the origin of the value of the infinite world. We must know that the content of your infinite love is eternal and can embrace all of life and more. Even if the way we go is difficult, we must be able to follow and go this way looking only towards the victory which will come to you as the fruit.
Father! Please let us be able to hear in our minds and bodies your quietly commanding, gentle voice, and please let a new pulse of the life of resurrection well up in the center of our minds. Earnestly hoping and desiring that you will allow us to become sons and daughters of victory who are able to experience and feel keenly of our own accord our new destined relationship, we have humbly prayed all these things in the holy name of the True Parents. Amen.
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Please Let Us Live Together With The Will
Sun Myung Moon
January 24, 1971
Beloved Father! We know that there have been so many incidents that have blocked the way along the grief filled course of restoration. How very much you must have hoped that we could overcome the crises, and how lonely you must have been each time you faced scenes like that!
We know that on the path of many crises many people, who have gone forth following your Will, were not able to overcome and they fell away in spite of the longing of our father who hoped we would overcome those things. We must realize clearly that no matter how much people may demand things themselves, if that is centered on human desire alone, your Will, will not be realized.
We must go forth remaining in the position of the sacrifice in relation to the hope of tomorrow by offering and offering ourselves before you with minds that are always humble. And we earnestly hope that you will allow us your wisdom and sagacity to distinguish on our own lives in which we hope to become offerings from a position of righteousness.
We must realize that when we get up in the morning after sleeping, it is not just the continuation of yesterday. We must realize that even if a day passes it should not be a day lived by habit. Please allow us to have a sharp, high standard which is able to distinguish between good and evil, and please let us feel closer to and more comfortable with you today than yesterday.
As we handle each thing, please let us think about the Will, and act in accordance with the Will. And please let us know that it will not do unless the courses of the lives we are living always have the standard of living according to the Will. We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the True Parents. Amen.
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Please Let Us Be Able To Cope With The Way Of Your Will On Our Own
Sun Myung Moon
February 28, 1971
Father! Each time we greet a new day, each time the morning sun shines on us anew, we will have to hope that day will become a new day centered on the Will, and we will have to become people who are able to yearn for your Will of hope which is like the bright sunlight. We know that there should not be any distance between us in our lives everyday, as well.
We must go and experience that the way you are going is also the way we must go; the place where you stay, is also the place where we must stay; the place where you are fighting is also the place where it will not do unless we fight, and the place where you are confronting the enemy is also the place where it will not do unless we confront the enemy as well.
We know well that in spite of the fact that the place that you are requesting is an earnest place where you want to come in contact with us, and it is a place where we pursue a historical mission, we are foolish people who, centered on our individual hopes, want to discuss with you while living our Cain-type lives.
Father! The children who have bowed down here must come to realize where the way they are going is, and where the place they are staying is. Do they have a proper attitude centered on an attitude of going forth to tomorrow? If our father is heading towards the East, are we standing in positions such that we can head to the East ourselves and take responsibility? We earnestly hope that you will allow us to clearly know that it will not do unless we realize on our own that we must know where the circumstances you are going through are heading, and we must know whether we are standing in the position of participating in those circumstances, and if we are not standing in that position, we are in a state where we must once again follow you with impatient minds.
The way of life is not a way we can go at someone's urging, and it is not a path we can go because someone leads us. We must particularly realize the fact that it can not be gone unless one is able to cope with it by oneself. We earnestly hope and desire that you will let us become your sons and daughters who are able to go forth adding the power of life while determining on our own, and who know clearly that we should not stand in a passive position.
Since we have bowed down before you sincerely at this time, when you gaze upon us, if we are in an evil position, please spur us on, and if we are in a good position, please hold our hands, and please let us appear as sons and daughters who are enthusiastic in relation to the Will of hope of tomorrow. And then we earnestly request that you will let us become your sons and daughters whom you can believe, and who are able to pioneer the position of filial piety and loyalty, by going forth taking responsibility on our own for all the conditions which oppose your Will by taking over your field of battle. We have humbly prayed in the holy name of the True Parents. Amen.
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Please Let Us Walk A Course Of Life Which Corresponds With The Will
Sun Myung Moon
April 18, 1971
We know that people always need a change, and need an awakening. Since we have realized that in order to be beings who are able to receive that kind of stimulation it will not do unless we have yearning and adoring hearts and earnest minds. Therefore, please guide us to accomplish of our own accord, in the realm of today's life, the hope of tomorrow in relation to your Will with earnest minds. Since, we know well that if we do not bring the results which can brighten tomorrow in the realm of the present moment, it will not stimulate you or our own selves, and there can be no joy, please be concerned about your children who have bowed down here.
Humankind are just letting time flow by. They just think that one year passes, and another year comes, but we must realize that in that way ten years pass, and twenty years pass, and half our lives, or our whole lives can just pass away. We absolutely must not stand in a position where we betray your Will during this course of life which is so short.
The fact that we can absorb this day today as joy, is something to be grateful for, but we must realize that if we can not link the joy of today to the joy of tomorrow, today's joy becomes an evil element for ourselves. And we must realize that those things can not help but become conditions of sorrow, difficulty, and lamentation. We know that joy is not only good, and sorrow is not only bad. The question is where the joy and sorrow are linked; we know that it is important how much that internal conflict matches the circumstances in order to accomplish one's goals.
When we come to realize these things, we come to think about how united we are with the Will, and how much our joy and sorrow are connecting to the values of the Will as we go our course of life together with the Will. When we think that the Will is dominating our whole lives and it is dominating our eternal lives and destined relationships, we realize the fact that the Will has dominion not only over today, but over the eternal historical age.
When we think about the fact that having become a direct substantial being you are observing and seeing through this age, we have realized the truth that being one with you, who are the center, is joy, and not being able to be one and becoming more distant from you is sorrow.
Father! We must come to know your sorrow. We must clearly realize from what kind of position you have been calling us, and with what kind of content you have been seeking us. Since it will not do for all the activities that are coming and going to be planned on a useless level, please let us become people who start together, go through the process and continue until the conclusion without going against your authority whether we live or die. Please let us realize that in this kind of present environment since our lives are such that it won't do unless we go before you at the end, Father, it is our glory that we are able to become people on our own who consult together with you about everything, who receive your counsel, and who match our steps to your final victory. We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the True Parents. Amen.
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Please Let Us Overcome The Suffering Way Of The Will By Taking Your Example
Sun Myung Moon
May 23, 1971
Father! We must now transcend this world of the realm of death. We must break through this. When we think that you are not looking for people who just live in the environment of this age, but rather you are looking for people who are able to overcome the environment of this age and remain, and who are able to firmly establish the traditions of the future on the foundation of the present reality, we realize that it will not do unless we become people who are able to overcome the realm of death and possess the realm of victory forever. When we think about how very much you have struggled in the realm of death in order to find sons and daughters who are standing in that kind of position, we will have to become sons among sons and daughters among daughters who are able to be called by you, and we must determine to become sons and to become daughters whom you will be happy to set forth in your nation of glory.
And not only that, we must become beings who can inherit the entire world of creation and about whom you can say, "I exist because of you, and I can experience joy because of you," and who can inherit your love completely and feel joy. We did not know until now the fact that until such children appeared the work of our father, who has endured and continued, has gone forward tangled in our background until today.
When we think that you searched while paying the price of such suffering, but we who were found appear to have so little value that we must have a time when we feel such shame that we can not present ourselves before heaven and earth, and we can not look up at the mountains, we can not look at the lakes, we can not look at the earth. We must have a point when we discover that we are shameful beings who can not reach out our hand and touch even the leaf of a plant or a handful of dirt.
What is the way we can resolve the grief of our Father who has gone forward with grief in his heart for thousands and hundreds of thousands of years? If there is a way that your grief can be resolved by your letting those of us who are so inadequate lay down our lives as fertilizer, we must find and go that way, even if it is a way of death. Until now we did not know that way is the traditional way of people going the way of faith. In spite of the fact that we should have straightened ourselves up, wailed until we were hoarse, and followed the course that your majesty commanded, we stopped shedding tears before you did, and we stood in a comfortable position before you. When we think of that fact, we must become people who are able to feel of our own accord that there are no acts more rash and thoughtless than that.
We have been told to be patient, to endure, and to overcome.
It will not do unless we overcome ourselves. We must be patient, and we must overcome ourselves. Furthermore, when we think that without overcoming our families, and becoming subject partners who can overcome our environment, we can not stand before you, we will have to realize once again that we must become people who are able to supplicate asking that your son will appear who is able to represent all individuals, and asking that you will allow the age that the people are hoping for, even if we are ruined before you while staying up all night on bended knees. And we must realize that the Unificationists who are gathered here must become a movement which offers devotion to you while shedding tears, and saying that a family which can do that must appear. And then please allow us to become heroes who decide the final victory more than anyone else by running the way of suffering more than anyone else. We have humbly prayed in the holy name of our True Parents. Amen.
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Please Let Us Walk The Way Of Public Righteousness For The Sake Of Humankind
Sun Myung Moon
October 4, 1978
Father! You must become the Lord of our minds, and the Lord of our bodies. You must become the center of the entire church. Since we know that there is no person who can become the center, please become the Lord personally, Father. We earnestly request that you will please always be the sign in front on the way we are going by your becoming the standard bearer of the direction we should go tomorrow, and please guide and admonish us, and please encourage us not to become exhausted along the way we go by your always being our center.
Father! We are not seeking to hurry along the way having received someone's orders; rather we have decided to take this way as our destined course, as a way we can not help but go whether we want to or not, because we know that humankind is to be pitied, and what kind of path you have walked in order to find humankind. No matter how fierce the battle may be on the way we are going, even though the arrows of the enemy fly towards us, because we know well our father who has protected us until now, because we know too well you who have encouraged us until now, even in a position where we have collapsed together with your name, even in a position where we are lamenting together with your name, thinking that we are together with you, we are grateful that you have let us walk the way of victory until today. We are grateful for the way of victory until now, but we know that the destiny of our lives is waiting for us, and it will not do unless we go the way of the destined course we must go while consulting together with you and leave behind the brilliant future victory of the Unification Church.
When a person is born on this earth he definitely is carrying a mission. We earnestly hope that you will allow our footsteps to be filled with the sympathy of people and the sympathy of heaven as we go forward ourselves on that way of our own accord, in order to defend, keep, and vindicate the laws of public righteousness and the will of public righteousness, and not to have a mouth which defends the individual on the way we are going. And we know the truth that this mission is not to seek for our own individual happiness; rather, it is in order to know how rewarding our lives are having taken responsibility for a historical public mission.
We have realized that the way of our lives is unbelievable as we go through time which comes and goes. As for the world we are living in today, because we have realized that it is a pitiful environment which we are not able to cope with, we earnestly hope that you will allow us to be able to run straight as bullets to the goal we must reach by your keeping and protecting the Unification Church members who know well that you alone are our center; you alone are our sign, and your protection alone allows us to proceed on our way.
We earnestly request and desire that you will let us become your young children who are more than able to bring victory to the people and to the world even if we are blasted into fragments by having become shells which are able to leave behind shouts of the joy of victory having broken through to the target on our own.
Please let your grace and love of the ages remain with us forever. Earnestly requesting that you will push us, Father, to become children who are not ashamed when anticipating the blessings of tomorrow, we have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the True Parents. Amen.
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Please Let Us Become A Movement Which Is Able To Advance Altogether Towards The Way Of The Will
Sun Myung Moon
October 22, 1978
Beloved Father! This is a moment in which the urgent, final, historically decisive destiny is about to collide together with our personal destinies. We have come to think about the fact that the Unification movement has become a focal point of hope for the mind of our urgent father, who wants to save this place as you look as the condition of humankind who are moaning, while not knowing where to go in the realm of many religions, in the spirit world, and in the physical world.
Father! We have realized that if we want to save a person who is dying, it will not do unless we enter into the position of death, and if we want to save a person who is on a path of suffering, it will not do unless we go through a course of suffering. As for the Unification Movement shouldering the responsibility for world history, it will not do for us to become foolish people who build a comfortable nest for ourselves, and enjoy that foundation on our own.
We have realized that as long as the nation has not been restored, our way is pressing, and as long as the world has not been restored, our way is pressing. Until now heaven has been in the forefront walking the way of the pioneer, and this son has spent his whole life hurrying in order to follow that path. Since now the way I must go remains before me as the responsibility of having to put everything urgently in final good order while looking forward to a good time, now at this age of nearly sixty, oh Father, please take charge of the way I am going. I earnestly hope and desire that you will drive out the Unification Movement, Father, to become conditions of your shining glory, and to become your shining pride, and to become the way that you can leave behind, that you can walk, and that you can go.
We know that in front of the way we must go now there are many paths of trials. We realize that not only the American continent is left, but the continents of North and South America are left, the continent of Africa is left, and not only the democratic world is left, but the communist bloc is left. Then when we think that there is no movement which is able to advance altogether giving its entire strength in the direction of that way, by straightening our minds and bodies of our own accord and pushing the footsteps that humankind must go, we feel the darkness of the way heaven must go. Oh Father, now these young people have come to know what your Will is like. We have come to know clearly what we must do and the way we must go.
We must be centered on the family, but that family must become the representative of the people and the nation, and not represent just the nation, but must become a family which represents the world and the cosmos. And the love of that family will overflow and go beyond the nation, go beyond Asia, go beyond the world, as far as everything of the cosmos, even to the spirits in the spirit world, and be able to resolve all their grief. Accordingly, we have realized that it will not do unless we have that kind of standard of the family which is able to be admired by all of them who seek to receive the benefit of that; therefore, oh Father, please bless us.
We know that it will not do unless we become those kinds of families who go together on the way you are going, realize a realm of the victory of joy, and are able to be praised for having become your sons and daughters of eternity, having established the ideal families you have been seeking, and when we compose poetry about the history that has continued on down, all humankind, and not only all the spirits in spirit world, but also God will be able to listen weeping bitterly. We earnestly request and desire that you will allow us to become a movement which is able to offer sincere hearts and which is able to offer total loyalty and all our devotion to leave behind a public way before you day by day by enduring along the way of suffering, enduring in the position where we are crashed into, and enduring, overcoming, and rising again from the position where we have collapsed.
We earnestly hope and desire that you will allow the time of glory to come quickly which is able to cancel the name "church" with the liberation of all nations, and praise that this is your Kingdom of Heaven of love, and please let this become the Unification altar which is able to give everything to heaven and yet have something left by becoming sons and daughters who are not ashamed, couples who are not ashamed, families that are not ashamed, tribes, peoples, and nations that are not ashamed before the spirits of the spirit world, before God and all the people of the world as well as that day and that age which remain.
Please let your grace and love of the ages be with us forever and ever! We have prayed all these things in the name of the True Parents. Amen.
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Please Let Us Straighten Out And Go The Way Of Heaven By Offering Ourselves Completely
Sun Myung Moon
February 25, 1985
Beloved Father! I know well that there is no way but for this son to offer my life to you with tears, while reflecting once more on the historical ages in which no one knew how to comfort you, during the tedious history of restoration which you alone knew about as you waited for the age, and no one has known about all the missions of the ages that you are administering while time flows by.
I thank you that you have protected me on the way as I have gone straight towards the day of being able to straighten out and go the way of heaven which is the duty of your public good by offering myself and attending you and by resolving your grief over having been miserable, angry and mistreated. I thank you for having allowed me to reach an age in which the destiny of the world can be decided directly, when I can discuss the world while standing in a position at the summit of the world, after historical ages in which I was driven out, and could not help but retreat and which continued until today.
Since I am going forward like a strong man who is bold and magnanimous, and who does not feel shame in front of you, Father, who is protecting the way where I must overcome a crisis, I ask, Father, that you will protect that way and be proud of me. I have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the True Parents. Amen.