Reverend Sun Myung Moon: Prayers: Episode 23

Reverend Sun Myung Moon: Prayers
A Lifetime of Conversation with Our Heavenly Parent
Hope: Please Let Us Harmonize and Become One Through Our Hearts, Page 35

Narrated by Kwon Jin Moon

Please Let Us Harmonize and Become One Through Our Hearts

Father! Since we who adore You have gathered together on our unworthy bended knees and we are looking forward to being able to meet You, attend You, and discuss together with You, please do not leave us alone. Oh Father! Please harmonize together with our minds, and please form a destined relationship together with our bodies. Please do not let the flow of Your earnest heart remain as Yours alone. Please let this become a time in which that flow of life itself which exists is able to penetrate deep into our minds.

Please allow us to become people who are able to be submerged in longing for You, and who are able to be held in the embrace of love of our infinite father, while looking up at the majesty of our father who is directing billions of saints. Please let this become a time in which we are able to call out to our father with minds and bodies that bow our heads of our own will, and in which we are able to thank heaven that we are in this warm home of nature.

Father! We know that before being the father who called us, worried about us, and sought us, along the course of the battle, You are the father who, in the midst of silence from a place deep in Your heart, could not help but feel even when You did not want to, and could not help but think, even when You did not want to. And we know that within our lifetimes, we must absolutely form a destined relationship in which You are able to call us Your children, and we are able to call You our father.

Have we ever discussed something with You even once in private? Has there ever been a day when, intoxicated with Your glory and Your gentle voice, we didn't know whether we were in our bodies or outside of our bodies, and we bowed our heads and bowed down to You? We have come to know that in the course of faith we definitely need to have those kinds of moments. And we have come to know that in order to bless us with those kinds of moments, You have toiled until today. Therefore, please allow this to become a time in which our minds and bodies are able to enjoy attending our original father, are able to enjoy attending our father of the original nature, and are able to enjoy attending our father of the true nature. You are not a father who relates to us having set up certain conditions; rather, You are a father who flows together according to the flow of Your mind, and who moves together according to the movement of Your mind. Therefore, we know that the hope and the ideal we must have while living on this earth are only harmonizing with the original feeling, and the original emotion while we have our lives.

We have come to know that You are our father, who is working so hard in order to show results while directing everything from a place that cannot be seen; our father, who exists but seems not to be there; our father who has dominion over our minds but seems not to have any relationship with us; our father who governs the infinite world. Since we long to be people of the original nature who are able to harmonize, to be still, and to move with the movement within that governed realm, within that realm of dominion, oh, Father, please do not leave us alone.

If there are people with the doors of their hearts closed, please open those doors, and if there are people who are suffering physically or heartistically through being enslaved by shadows of death please take pity on them as well. Father, please do not leave us alone, and if there are no minds that sincerely long for our father who truly exists, please allow us to realize on our own that we are shameful people before You, who are our father who truly exists, who are our father of heaven.

Today, even though each of our minds is different, even though each of our situations is different, even though each of the environments we are facing, our internal customs, and the concepts, ideologies, and viewpoints we have in our innermost hearts are different, in the world of the original heart, the minds that want to harmonize are the same, and evil people and good people can harmonize there.

Therefore, we earnestly hope and desire that You will lead us to be able to do that at this time. Earnestly hoping and desiring that this will become a time of grace in which we are able to mold ourselves anew through the word, and we are able to attend You, Father, by having found our original hearts through selfless hearts that have confessed everything to You, Father, we have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the Lord.

Amen.
(November 1, 1959)