Prayers, A Lifetime Of Conversation With Our Heavenly Father - Sun Myung Moon |
Resurrection [Part 4 of 4]
Please Allow "Me" To Become Someone Who Shines In History
Father! The path that we are going is not a path we are going for some individual. Please let us understand that at the same time that it is a path for ourselves, it is a path for the world and the nation; and we are not living for some individual being, we are living for the world. Please let us come to understand that when we were born, this being called "I," if I am so and so Kim, was not born for so and so Kim alone.
I, so and so Kim, was born in order to go this way. Please allow us to be proud of this of our own accord, and to become those who say that this is the duty of our lives; and please allow us to understand its value. We earnestly hope and desire, Father, that you will let us know that the purpose for having become Unification Church members is to find a central substantial being who can let us see this problem clearly and solve it and make its value even more precious.
Father! We have understood that going this path should be more urgent than anything else in the world. If we ask for whom we have gathered, we have not gathered for the Teacher of the Unification Church, and we have not gathered for anything of the Unification Church. Since we want to go forward for the nation, the Unification Church is needed, and since that is the nation and world which the Unification Church is hoping for, we are believing in and following it.
Since this is the nearest path to that goal, we are following this path. But Father, please do not allow our unchanging hearts which seek to go to the nation through the Unification Church, to the world through the Unification Church, to the cosmos through the Unification Church to become dejected. Please allow those hearts to quietly, calmly endure and go forth.
Please let the sound of the heartbeat coining from our hearts and the sound of the heartbeat coming from the heart of heaven become one with our bodies, and please let our very beings be able to take on the role of arteries to let the feelings of our lives move and flow. And please allow us as the pulse of those arteries to be able to shine forever in the annals of history and to be able to become the friends of all people in our lives. Please let us realize that now at this time you are asking us whether that wouldn't be our hope.
Where are our minds flowing now? Where are our bodies staying? Please don't let us remain at the point of our selfish minds of the past. Please don't let us be those who hide our bodies in a self of the past which can be ruined or who remain in a position where we can be punished.
Please allow us to be able to have minds and bodies in a position able to take on the burden of your mind and able to make the minds of humankind on the earth bloom. Please allow us to become your princes and princesses who kneel down before you, Father, and determine our loyalty and who imagine an "I" who is able to become the light of all.
Please allow us to become those who are able to quietly, gently grow and to quietly, gently establish our individual positions which are able to blossom with the fervor of adoration, or positions which are able to shine with the fervor of longing.
We will have to rouse ourselves to action having hope in a shining tomorrow. We will have to rouse ourselves to action having hope in the "I" of the shining tomorrow. We will have to rouse ourselves to action for the sake of the shining new Kingdom of Heaven. In order to do that, we will have to become appropriate vessels for it.
We will have to become those who are able to shine internally and externally. And furthermore, we must become your sons and daughters who bow our heads before this relationship preordained by heaven, and we must become children who are able to call you "Father" sincerely. Then in the midst of that love we will sing of our daily lives, and we earnestly ask you, beloved Father, to allow us all to become your sons and daughters who in that situation are able to praise the work of each day in a holy way.
Please let the remaining time, become glorious, and in relation to praising ourselves, please let this become a true position.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the True Parents. Amen.
August 31, 1969
Please Let Us Cut Off Our Relationship With The Realm Of Satan And Find Our Original Parents
Father! Because we are those who were born from evil, we must be born again to goodness. This destiny of having to be born twice is a very miserable one. Isn't living as a stepchild very regrettable even in the world? We are not at the level of stepchildren; since we were born as the children of the enemy, we must find our original parents, but that path is never a smooth one. Therefore, we are receiving countless attacks from the spears, swords and arrows of Satan.
But we will have to cut the ties that are binding our bodies and go forth. We will have to collide with those who are binding us, and cut them off with our mouths or cut them off with our strength. We know that in order to do that, we will have to go through a miserable course of history where we will not be able to help shedding blood.
How great your sorrow must be over having sons and daughters like us when you cannot advise us even as you watch this. We must come to know that your heart is like that. We must become sons and daughters who know how to experience your situation, the heart of a parent whose pathetic breast is constricting at a point which cannot be expressed when his son who committed sin is dragged away by the court and stands on the gallows.
We must know how to feel your pitiful heart as you watched your sons and daughters who were born with the central value of the universe and who could not be represented by anything else be dragged away by the touch of the enemy and your heart as you have gone forward silently hoping for a time of hope.
We bow down before your anxious heart, before your mind which is hoping for sons of hope like that, and we are thinking about you, our wretched father who has been struggling in order to find his lost sons and daughters even if it will take billions and trillions of years. When we think that even when that wretchedness unfolded in reality in the course of history, and even while in such a position you have not been able to receive pity, we realize that we deserve to be cursed over and over again. But we know that you have endured all that and forgiven us because if you curse us, you would be in the position of cursing your own children. We must follow this example of forgiveness and patience which you have given us, Father.
We know that the person who seeks heaven in circumstances more pitiful than anyone else on earth remains in history. And indeed the people who know this way and who are going this way are people to be pitied. They are lonely orphans of the world. They are people who are in a situation they cannot complain about to anyone.
Even if they had a nation, they could not believe that nation, and even if they had the world, they could not have hope in that world. In that way, everywhere they went they could find you only if they stood in the position of being struck by the spears, arrows and swords of the enemy. We know that our being able to form a deep, heartistic relationship with you in this way is a tragic reality that we alone are able to have.
From that kind of position as sons and daughters who inherit your indignant heart, we will have to be able to call you "Father" sincerely while in your presence. Therefore, we know that we cannot go your way without shedding blood.
Therefore, thinking of the history of the blood shed by Abel, we must become a fortress surrounded by walls of blood for the sake of our father, and we must prepare a foundation of eternal rest, a citadel that can receive your sympathy. And please allow us to become heaven's true children who are able to eternally defend you and comfort your misery, Father.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the True Parents. Amen.
December 7, 1969
Please Establish A New Order Of Love Through The Grace Of The Blessing
Father! Until now in the course of history, the union of a man and a woman centered on you has not existed. We know that it is all because of your hidden good works and your meritorious hard work that things that have never happened until now could be accomplished in the Unification Church.
When we think that until now the course of history existed in order to find one man, we have come to understand that it was the blessing of heaven to have been able to open the door of a new history, to pave the way to be able to go to the new world, and to have for the first time the foundation of a new religion through families centered on the concept of unification.
We sincerely appreciate the grace you have given by letting us be able to receive this awesome blessing due to your hard work. Now please allow each of these people to offer all that they have before you. When we think about this thing called marriage, we cannot help but be reminded that it is an issue directly linked with the fall of Adam and Eve.
As for us who were borne having received the blood lineage of fallen parents, when we think about how awesome is this event called "the blessing centered on you, our Father", we sincerely offer our gratitude before your grace. We who are like this must know the fact that we must become men and women who can first be offered substantially before you as sacrifices centered on true goodness.
But we have come to realize that we are people who are at a point where we cannot reach that position as individuals. We know that this kind of position is one where we absolutely cannot stand as fallen descendents. But now since they have moral justification through their relationship with the True Parents, please take the lead there, Father. We earnestly hope and desire that you will allow us to clearly realize the fact that this kind of foundation of grace cannot help but be established from this position where the work began through a relationship with the True Parents.
Now, if one is a man, as a man, and if one is a woman, as a woman, each one has offered himself or herself before you, Father, so please keep them as yours forever. Please give them authority and please let them become good ancestors by becoming examples in relation to establishing the order of your love in the satanic world.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the True Parents. Amen.
March 23, 1970
Please Bless Us To Become Sons And Daughters You Are Able To Embrace
Father! In your presence we are as naked children, so you will have to dress us, and you will have to feed us, and you will have to raise us while embracing us. But we have never been able to relate with you like that as sons and daughters. Please let our minds and bodies stand in that kind of position, and please bless us to be able to become your sons and to be able to become your daughters.
We don't own anything in this world; we are people who don't have even one thing; we have nothing to show off that we can be proud of. But we do have our destined relationship of sons and daughters who can grow up in your embrace. We know that this kind of destined relationship is a special realm which is able to represent the authority of victory, and we must become people who know how to be grateful here.
We don't look like anything, but please allow us to become sons and daughters whom you feel are precious and of whom you can be proud.
Even if we go a difficult path, we go together with you, Father; and even if we have a sorrowful experience, we have it with you; and even if we stand in a difficult position, please lead us, Father, to be able to comfort you. Please let us embrace deeper and deeper in our hearts the day of hope and desire, and please allow us to become your true sons and to become your true daughters who are able to add to the progress of the advancement towards tomorrow
However rugged the path we are going may be, please allow us to have new determination to never become a burden on the path that you must go. We have come you know you, Father, and we know the direction that you are going. Even if we go the path of the heavy cross and are injured, we know that there is only one time when we can comfort you; therefore, please allow us to become your children who gather all our devotion together as we go.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of our True Parents. Amen.
April 19, 1970
Please Allow Us To Become The Children You Hoped For
We are binding together and offering before you our hearts and minds which long for and adore your precious and mighty internal character. Since we are reflecting on the past and critiquing the present and longing for our true selves of tomorrow, please grant us evidence that we are your sons and your daughters.
Please let us become the kinds of sons you have been hoping and longing for, the kinds of sons you have been looking for. We represent the entire value of the universe, and are the people who represent the central value; who therefore, you are able to long for. Accordingly, please allow us to become true children who can be called your sons and your daughters through your very mouth and through all your emotions and sensations. We are hoping that through our inadequate selves, you can feel that we are such sons and daughters.
Oh Father who loves us from a dim distance, and who has worked in order to develop a foundation for our lives, we are so grateful for your having endured and gone through the long ages with the hope of a day for when you can meet true sons and daughters. Because our minds have their origin in you alone, at this time also we are longing to be true sons and true daughters who are able to have value in relation to the world you are hoping for, and according to the place where your mind is going.
We have come here wanting to become sons and daughters who are called into the presence of our holy, merciful and majestic Father. Please let us become your sons and become your daughters who are filled with strong determination about the hope of tomorrow and the mission of tomorrow.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the True Parents. Amen.
December 13, 1970
Please Let Us Be Reborn Into A Life Thai' Is One With The Will
Father! It will not do unless we determine the position in which we are placed, and can go straight in the direction of the goal which you have determined, and be one with the will, and become one with your mind and establish ourselves as the true sons and daughters you long for; therefore, we have come to this place longing for those things.
When we think that this place is a place where not only humankind but also heaven is taking on an extraordinarily important mission, and where both are hoping to make a determination for a new historical origin, we realize that this place is a place heaven is watching carefully, and a place humankind is watching carefully, due to our going a path proper to human beings who attend heaven in between heaven's side and humankind's side.
And we realize it is a place carrying the responsibility of having to go directly towards your will and not lean towards anything. However, Father, we must have a definite view of the goal. Relating to that goal we must become people who clearly know the solemn fact that without an absolutely accurate sense of direction in our lives day by day, we will not be able to go the full course of a true life.
While watching many days pass, we must not let them pass just staying as we are. We must become a movement of holy people who become different and change, and who know how to long to be able to become unified with your nature, and know how to stand in that position, and who are able to represent the substantial beings of your ideal of creation. We already know that you seek to meet and find these kinds of people through your Will. When we call you "Father." that father must not become an ambiguous father.
We must face you squarely, Father, and follow the direction that you go. Please allow us to become children who are able to feel that it is the duty of children to not want our path to be a smooth one, but rather to feel that it will not do unless we follow the path that heaven has gone because it is the path of our parent even if it is a path that adds suffering upon suffering.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the True Parents. Amen.
October 8, 1972
Please Take Dominion Through Your Touch Of Re-Creation
Beloved Father! Together with all the things of creation which you made, we hope to offer before you, who oversee heaven and earth, praise of your glory and majesty.
Father! We know well that while passing through the eventful course of history, you have come through a history of re-creation that was extremely full of suffering in order to restore the mistake of our human ancestors. We realize how much misery and suffering filled the historical indemnity you paid in order to have each of us individually return to your original point by going beyond the path of the servant of servants, going beyond the path of the servant, going beyond the path of the adopted son, going beyond the path of the child, and going beyond the relationship of true parents.
As human beings whom it is proper to punish because we sinned, we have walked a miserable course of sorrow-filled suffering, but as though there were no relation to that, you took responsibility for everything. We offer our sincere gratitude in view of the mighty accomplishments you attained while carrying out the work of re- creation, taking the lead, and going through all sorts of difficulties.
Father! We have come to understand that there is not a single person who has not been touched by you, and we know that there is no country whatsoever that has not been led through your hope. And furthermore, we know well that going beyond national borders, you are leading all people to the present point in order to lead them into the original world which was your ideal.
When we think that in the world that must remain in the end, there will be only you and your beloved sons and daughters and the heavenly forces of angels, we see that in this world the power of Satan and the people of Satan are far too great. We know that we Unification people are in a position where we cannot hope to resolve this for you.
We have the name of the True Parents and the name of the True Children, and we praise that family. We realize the fact that our Unification Movement has the extremely precious responsibility of having to achieve on earth and in the spirit world the original state of the angelic world which is able to attend that family. When we realize that, we are in the position of having to inherit the accomplishments of the position of having become parents and at the same time inheriting the accomplishments of the sons and daughters.
Father! Your young children must pass through your touch and become the material for re-creation in your presence. We have already understood that it will not do unless we become like clay and can be molded as you wish and adapt ourselves to that.
Since we have understood that the only kind of mind we can have is one that seeks to become a faithful servant of your absolute will and a mind that adores your absolute love, oh, Father, please accept us, take dominion over us, and make us into the vessels you want.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the True Parents. Amen.
February 1, 1975
Please Allow Us The Authority Of Sons
Beloved Father! We have understood what kind of world you desire. We have understood how the love that you want must go. We have come to understand what the present world we are facing these days is like. We have understood that we are human beings who cannot live for ourselves; we have understood that we are Unification Church members whose families cannot live for our families alone; and we have understood that we people of the Unification Church of the world cannot live for the Unification Church of each nation of the world.
We have understood the awesome and amazing fact that it will not do unless we live entirely for one world, entirely for one Kingdom of Heaven. Therefore, we will have to be able to change the order of our consciousness to God's consciousness by transcending the people, transcending the nation and transcending the world. We have understood that at the same time that the discovery that we are able to do that ourselves is a great discovery, it is also the foundation for being able to be endowed with the qualification of being a great son.
We have understood that the God who oversees the entire heaven and earth is a father in relation to our very family, is a father in relation to the nation, is a father in relation to the world, and a father in relation to the heavens. We have understood that while going through the historical ages representing the position of that father, parents of the family were needed, a king of the nation was needed, and saints of the world were needed. We know that it is because of that people have sought the way, of the truth.
Since we have truly come to know that, we will have to form a parent-child relationship as though it were a formal standard now, and you and we will really have to live together in our families, Father. We will really have to live centered on the nation. We will really have to live centered on the world. We can have the authority of father and son only if we find the joy of really being able to live together with the whole spirit world, and we have come to know that we will not be able to resolve the fallen realm if we cannot have the authority of father and son.
Because of that we know that we absolutely need a realm of victory which can expand the authority of the father and the son from the individual, to the family, the people, the nation, and throughout the world. Therefore, Father, please bless us. We have now understood that there is nothing more precious than having God as our father, and once again we pledge of our own accord today at this time before you, Father, that we will become your sons and daughters in every way. Therefore, we earnestly hope that you will please allow this.
We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the True Parents. Amen.