Reverend Sun Myung Moon: Prayers: Episode 30

Reverend Sun Myung Moon: Prayers
A Lifetime of Conversation with Our Heavenly Parent
Hope: Please Let Us Realize the Precious Value of Families Where the love of Heaven Is Putting Forth Shoots, Page 44

Narrated by Kwon Jin Moon

Please Let Us Realize the Precious Value of Families Where the Love of Heaven Is Putting Forth Shoots

Father! We started out with bare hands, but now we are in a position where we envy nothing. We do not need money; we do not need power, either; and we do not need any kind of worldly culture. More than those things, what we need and are thirsting for are the love of God, the love of parents, the love of couples and the love of children. We are seeking after families centered on our Heavenly Father in the original homeland that we have longed for and about which heaven and earth can rejoice.

Father, in this whole world, could there be anything with more value than this kind of family? Even if there were a mountain of precious treasures such as gold, what could be more valuable than the destined relationship of a family centered on the parents' love, the destined relationship of brothers and sisters centered on the parents?

Since we know that this is what You have been seeking, Father, we earnestly hope and desire that You will allow us to clearly know that we are Unificationists in order to become leaders who are able to connect our motives in order to be able to build history, having enjoyed ourselves here and determined ourselves here in order to leave behind infinite value.

Father! In the long course of history, sorrowful tears have been shed. We know that in every circumstance where men and women have met, sorrowful situations grazed them, and the critical paths of history evoked the lamentations of heaven. Therefore, we earnestly hope and desire that today You will allow us to become a beachhead like iron and stone which is able to defend against the enemy and resolve Your grief, by men and women becoming true couples and establishing families.

From that kind of position we must find ourselves, find families, find tribes, find peoples, find nations, and run towards the world of which we are newly aware. Therefore, please do not allow us to be lacking. We have humbly prayed all these things in the holy name of the True Parents.

Amen.
(December 8, 1968)