Reverend Sun Myung Moon: Prayers: Episode 22

Reverend Sun Myung Moon: Prayers
A Lifetime of Conversation with Our Heavenly Parent
Hope: Please Let Us Harmonize With You Through Our Minds and Bodies, Page 33

Narrated by Kwon Jin Moon

Please Let Us Harmonize With You Through Our Minds and Bodies

We cannot help but worry whether our natures dare be offered to You, Father, and when we reflect on our own about whether our minds and bodies are such that they can receive the purpose You have allowed, we cannot help but bow our heads with embarrassed minds. Therefore, please take pity on us, Father.

Who is there who would dare to stand before You, Father, and who is there who has the confidence to be able to stand before You? We know that the farther we go, the more we know there could be no one who does not feel the sorrow of heaven which seems to cut right through us. There has been no one who knew that there are traces of Your toil, that You have a heart, and that Your awesome internal nature exists which makes us not know what to do with ourselves, and makes us unable to lift up our faces. But You have raised us to be able to know about those kinds of facts, and we thank You for that. To whom is this due? This did not happened because we are so wonderful, and it did not happen because we have everything we should have. Please allow us to know that it happened because our many ancestors, who admired goodness throughout history, formed with heaven a destined relationship which affected us without our even knowing it.

Please allow us to know that we of today are not just we ourselves alone. Please take dominion over us so that we will become people who are able to respect that destined relationship and rejoice together in that destined relationship; and please do not let us become people who betray that relationship.

Father! In what kind of position are our minds? Please let us think on our own about what our bodies are waiting for, why they are moving, and where they want to be placed.

Please let us feel through our minds that in the midst of silence, at this time, too, You are urging us to feel the value of life. And please let us know that You are our Father who cannot help but feel sorrow while looking at humankind because of the tragic reality of their struggling to hold on to their lives alone.

Oh Father, who rules the world of our hearts and minds, please come personally, and rule over us all at this time according to the original nature, and take dominion over us according to the true nature. We earnestly hope and desire, Father, that You will allow us new words, and that You will let us stand in a position where we are able to harmonize with You through our minds and bodies, having become people who are in harmony with the words of goodness, and who enjoy relating to goodness, to people of the original nature, and to people of the true nature.

Where are there good-looking people, and where are there ugly people? Since we know that we are one through our hearts, please allow us to be able to move and be still and to harmonize and comply with the heart of heaven. And please let Your glory alone appear in front of all of our lives, and please act to let the grace of Your life penetrate deep into our innermost hearts.

We earnestly hope and desire that by moving our minds and hearts, You will allow this to become a time in which new decisions and determinations to resolve the grief of restoration and to pioneer the course of eternal life, explode out of our innermost hearts. At this time please allow the right of life to all the multitudes who are bowing their heads here, and while earnestly requesting that Your many sons and daughters who are in heaven will harmonize with us, too, and cooperate in establishing the foundation of victorious glory, we have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the Lord.

Amen.
(October 25, 1959)