Reverend Sun Myung Moon: Prayers: Episode 18

Reverend Sun Myung Moon: Prayers
A Lifetime of Conversation with Our Heavenly Parent
Hope: Please Let Us Long For the Original World, Page 28

Narrated by Kwon Jin Moon

Please Let Us Long For the Original World

Oh Father! We know that if there were people who had true minds, then there wouldn't be anyone who did not long for the original world; and if there were people living who had true bodies, then there wouldn't be anyone who did not long for life in the original world.

As for the way the original Adam and Eve looked when they could relate directly to You before the fall, heaven appeared, the earth appeared, and after all the things of creation appeared, after Adam and Eve had been created as human beings for the first time, how happy You must have been over how they looked! How precious our ancestors must have appeared since they had been placed in a position of glory where they could relate to You!

Now please let this time become one in which we are able to admire the original world through our Minds. We have come to intensely long for hearts of goodness which are able to make Your heart respond, Father, and we have come to intensely long for the look of goodness of the original homeland where we can hold Your hand. Therefore, we earnestly hope and desire that You will allow us to become people who are able to long for the ancestors of the original nature. If we know while living on the earth that in the world of heart there are no historical distances, and there are no limits of time and space, even though we are groping around having lost our way and are asleep in the realm of death now, please allow us to long for the way our original ancestor looked who was born through the heart of infinite love, and to long for the way our original selves look. Please allow us to become people who are panting to find our father who created us like that, and to become people who shed tears dispiritedly longing to look like that, and we earnestly hope and desire, my Father, that You will allow our minds and bodies to experience and feel keenly in this moment beauty itself which is able to harmonize together with the atmosphere of that world, the circumstances of that world, all the things of that world, and all things in the universe, even if we look shabby.

Father! We call out to You, and we have been happy to call out to our Father who has worked so hard along the historical course of the Fall, but we did not know how to even imagine our original father rejoicing in the garden of goodness without the sorrow of the Fall, and there was not even a time when we wandered searching for that father. And in relation to believing in the true savior, we human beings have known only the Jesus who hung on the cross; please pardon the fact that we have not been able to believe in Jesus who could have appeared as the Lord of glory and not gone through the suffering of the cross, and not been persecuted or in pain.

Father! Today please allow our minds to overflow with longing for the world of harmony where we can live together with our original selves, centered on the original ideal and the original goodness. Our Father, we earnestly hope and desire that You will please allow us a place of joy where we can call out to You through our original hearts. Please let us come to understand the innermost heart of Moses who wanted to lead the multitudes of the 600,000 Israelites who were suffering in Egypt, and please allow us to realize the fact that Moses related to the people with a grieving heart. Today the Christians of the world must inherit the blessing of the second Israel which is spread throughout the world. We have the responsibility of announcing that the blessed land of Canaan which they are looking for still remains. Since we know that the responsibility to fulfill this mission belongs to us today, oh Father, please allow the indignation, exasperation, and mortification which remain to penetrate deep into our flesh and bones. We earnestly hope,

Father, that You will allow us to become Your sons and daughters who have the fidelity of heaven and who will finally take vengeance upon Your enemies even if our minds and bodies collapse and die a hundred times. As we receive the command You have given and go forth, we have come to realize that the course of the cross remains. Since these are Your lonely sons and daughters who have gone forth of their own will on this difficult path, please be a friend of their minds. We know the fact that when You become our center for ever and ever, our minds and bodies take Your example, and as unchanging central beings we will be able to represent You. Therefore, now please once again personally take our minds and bodies as Your own.

We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.
(June 28, 1959)