Reverend Sun Myung Moon: Prayers: Episode 17

Reverend Sun Myung Moon: Prayers
A Lifetime of Conversation with Our Heavenly Parent
Hope: Please Let Us Become Children Who Would Build the Original Homeland, Page 26

Narrated by Kwon Jin Moon

Please Let Us Become Children Who Build the Original Homeland

We know the fact that Your ideal of building the original garden, and embracing the original true children that You were to enjoy through the original heart has still not appeared on this earth.

Please pardon that there has never been a time that we human beings sang of heaven with original hearts from the day we were enslaved by death until today. Please pardon our pitiful selves who have not been able to stand in a position of glory and call out to You as original individuals, and we earnestly hope and desire that You will take pity on the fact, Father, that we have not been able to be moved and call You, "My Father," with earnest hearts, with original hearts.

Humankind, who lost the original garden, fell down to the world of death, have been fighting darkness, have been enslaved in the hands of their enemies, have been lamenting and despairing. But in their consciences in which traces of their original minds remain, they have been longing for the original homeland.

Even while going through the historical battle, through the touch of heaven which we could feel moment by moment, we went forth looking for the lifeline of heaven. We thank You, Father, for the cooperation You gave. Father, since You know that we, who are extremely Young and unworthy, are struggling and becoming exhausted along this course, please reach out to us in compassion once again. Please allow us the power of recreation, and please let us restore our original hearts. We earnestly hope and desire, our Father, that You will hold on to us so that we may go close to You as original people.

Even if we cut off everything of this world, it will not do unless we go towards the original world which heaven desires. Therefore, please allow us to have earnest minds which are filled with longing for the original homeland, and we earnestly hope and desire that You will push us out, Father, to the point where we will run to the original homeland even if our bodies and legs become tired.

Please allow our bodies and minds to become one and to yearn for the heart of heaven. Please build through us the garden of happiness which You can finally enjoy together with us human beings. We earnestly hope and desire, Father, that You will allow us to become able to push and go forward with minds of love, even if billions of people of this age oppose us.

Since we are fallen people, at any rate, we know that it will not do unless we find our original selves by going through the course of restoration. And we know that it will not do unless we find the original homeland, we attend our original father, and we build the original world.

Today we, who are fallen, have not known Your heart of love; we have not known the original homeland; and we have not known our original personalities or our original selves. Therefore, oh Father, we earnestly hope and desire that You will establish us as people of glory who are worthy of living while attending You by having all the elements which allow us to become beings of the original nature once again through Your word, through Your personality, and through Your heart of love. We know that in order to block this kind of work, along this historical course many enemy satans have attacked, starting with our ancestors up until ourselves today, without distinguishing between the age or time.

Having gone forth !mowing that it is our responsibility to reject and restrain them, we now earnestly hope and desire that You will let us become true sons and daughters of heaven who are able to arm ourselves with Your heart, arm ourselves with Your word, and go forth imposingly to face the enemy. Now it will not do unless we find and go to the original homeland ourselves. We know that our families, our society, all the thirty million people living in this land, the many people living spread out on this earth, and even the many spirit people in the spirit world are wandering, looking for the lost original homeland.

Therefore, Father, please let us become the people responsible for being able to build the original homeland which communicates with Your heart. Please let us become the elite troops of heaven, the workers of heaven who are able to build the original garden by finding true sons and daughters in the enemy world and gathering them together.

We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
(June 14, 1959)