Reverend Sun Myung Moon: Prayers: Episode 11

Reverend Sun Myung Moon: Prayers
A Lifetime of Conversation with Our Heavenly Parent
Part 1 Hope: Please Let Us Become Original People Who Atone for the Sorrows of History, Page 16

Narrated by Kwon Jin Moon

Please Let Us Become Original People Who Atone for the Sorrows of History

Humankind must awaken from its deep sleep, from darkness and from the power of total darkness. But people do not know they must awaken. No matter what kind of barriers block our path, please let Your compassionate concern appear to us so that we may be able to dash towards the new banner of light.

Father! We know of the historical toil You have gone through for us, Your Young children. And we know that we are people who cannot help but be sorrowful about ourselves, who have natures of darkness latent within us. Just as You have looked at the earth and felt sorrow, today it will not do unless we feel sorrow when looking at ourselves. Furthermore, we know in our hearts that there still remains before us the responsibility that we must go beyond ourselves and pay off our debts in relation to all the things of creation which are in sorrow, and that we must comfort the heart of our Father, who is in sorrow. But please pardon our having come to this position today without having been able to cope with this responsibility.

You sought to establish a history of joy and substantial beings of joy, but the history of sorrow was taken over by sorrow and substantial beings of sorrow ended up arising from it. Since the resultant substantial beings were beings of resentment and lamentation, how could it not become Your sorrow, and how could it not become the complications of Your Heart?

We are in a pitiful situation such that it will not do unless we hope that You will mold us again through acts of reanalyzing and recreating our wretched selves which are like this today. Father, today please take even more pity on us and take us as Yours, and please take us as substantial beings who can be remolded by Your idea, Father. Please mold our minds and bodies again according to the original laws of creation, so that we may have the beauty of the original nature of heaven as the Will You desire. My Father, we earnestly hope for and desire this.

Please allow us to be able to rejoice over attending You, Father, who created the entire universe, and to be able to sing a song of joy over having found the Lord of the entire universe; to be able to sing hallelujah; and to be able to look at the bright light of the new morning after having broken down the barriers of sorrow and come out. And we earnestly hope and desire that You will allow us to be able to have the original pride and be able to long for the original nature while relating to everything You created.

We know that since people fell even the things of creation have been sorrowful and have lamented, and we know that they are hoping to be able to stand in the position of the original things of creation through the touch of true sons and daughters. When we think that we have the mission of having to restore the things of creation to their original position and of comforting You, today we humbly report to You how inadequate we are; and we ask You to please pardon that we are in a situation such that it will not do unless we can hope for Your hard work once again. 

We know that each one of us has the responsibility that we must resolve Your indignation, and we must bring to an end the lamentations that have happened during the last six thousand years by realizing the hope of all the things of creation You created and Your hope even in this way at least. Therefore, Father of compassion, Father of love, please do not allow our minds to move a long distance away from You. 

Please do not allow us to become people who move far away from Your internal nature and external form. Because You created us, we know that we have the destined relationship of creation that we are able to communicate with Your mind, Father, and that we are able to communicate with Your body, too. Therefore, we earnestly hope and desire that You will establish us once again as beings of the original nature, and that You will lead us into the realm of authority of the original power,

Father, even though we have even less worth than specks of dust or micro-organisms. And please allow us to become bright lights to this dark world as sons and as daughters who are able to establish the prestige of heaven and be proud before You, Father. And please allow us to become herds of lambs who are able to appear representing the light of the East, and who are able to convey the joy of the new heaven to this dark earth. Please allow us the strength to be able to take on this entire mission and responsibility.

We have humbly prayed in the name of the Lord. Amen.
(February 15, 1959)