Reverend Sun Myung Moon: Prayers: Episode 32

Reverend Sun Myung Moon: Prayers
A Lifetime of Conversation with Our Heavenly Parent
Hope: We Want to Become Light of Joy Before You, Father, Page 46

Narrated by Kwon Jin Moon

We Want to Become Light of Joy Before You, Father

Father! You are a holy being. You are a being who should not be pitiful. As the Lord of creation, You are the symbol of eternal glory and power; then how did You become so pitiful? How is it that the regrettable situation remains that You alone have to drink the bitter cup of the defeated?

We know the fact that the rash and thoughtless action of the ancestors of humankind ended up corrupting this history of billions of ages and created the root of indignation. This is not something that is limited to Adam and Eve alone; rather, we, who are their descendants, as descendants of the fall connected to the blood of our ancestors from generation to generation, have the bodies of the same fallen heirs. Therefore, please let us know the fact that people who cannot feel an anger that makes them gnash their teeth with indignation when thinking of that, cannot go to heaven.

When we look up at the morning sunshine, that brilliant light of hope, we want to become Your sons and daughters who can become the light of joy for You. Please allow that. We earnestly hope that You will let us be able to realize that we cannot go into Your world of love without a strong heart, and be able to clear away all the sins left behind by our ancestors who tragically lacked filial piety.

Although there are many people on the earth, where is there a son, or where is there a daughter who is able to embrace and comfort Your wounded heart? There has not been anyone who has offered devotion in order to resolve the grief of the thousands of years of history while attending You. Even though there are people who, as their dying wish, have wished their descendants to prosper for millions of generations, there has not been a single person who has advised that we must live a certain way because it is God's will. We know that on the path of death, many of our ancestors wished blessings on this people as their dying wish, but all those dying wishes could not help but disappear. Today, the members of the Unification Movement must not become people like that. We know that even if humankind disappears, only if their dying wishes remain will their dignity be established. We know that because that kind of path is the way humankind must go, You have planted in our minds that we must go that kind of path.

We will become offerings before Your Will. We must become a movement that is able to go along that path more actively than anyone else, and we must determine to have the final victory for the sake of the situation of our father, who is heading towards that purpose. And we earnestly hope and desire that You will let us become the Unification Movement which becomes a foundation that is able to represent the brilliant sunlight of heaven, and which goes forth considering it happiness, even if we become the foundation stones which lay a bridge while seeking that light, and having the grief of thousands of years of history. 

We have humbly prayed all these things in the holy name of the True Parents. Amen.
(October 12, 1969)