Reverend Sun Myung Moon: Prayers: Episode 36

Reverend Sun Myung Moon: Prayers
A Lifetime of Conversation with Our Heavenly Parent
Hope: Please Let Us Make A Nation of Hope, Page 50

Please Let Us Make A Nation of Hope

Beloved Father! When we ask where in the world there is a nation where You can dwell, and where among humankind, there is a people whom You can lead, we realize that You still have not been able to meet that kind of nation or that kind of people.

We know through the Principle that before the nation exists, there must first be a people, and before the people exists, there must first be a tribe, and that it will not do for my individual self to be below the standard of perfection in order for there to be a family, or for a family to be below the standard of perfection in order to form a tribe.

When we consider how many of Your children who do not have a nation are on this earth, we understand that, although there are many people on earth who relate to You and call You their father, there are not many people who are awake and struggling to find the nation and people for which You are longing and hoping.

Even though on this earth You do not have a nation, a people, a tribe or a family, when You have beloved sons and daughters who are able to receive everything in Your heart instead of that nation, instead of that people, instead of that tribe, instead of that family, we know that because of such sons and daughters, through the connecting of such individuals, in Your presence, the nation of hope begins, and the people of hope and the foundation of hope in daily life unfold. Please allow us to determine once more at this time to become sons and daughters who are able to stand in that kind of position of glory.

We know that while going along the historical course of thousands of years, there was not a single day when You did not long for Your beloved children. When we realize that You had both a mind of wanting to love and a mind of wanting to have those children continue eternally as the people of Your glorious nation, we come to feel that Your mind of love is infinite in relation to our unworthy selves today. The more we feel those kinds of things, the more we must realize that You are seeking that nation and that people through our minds and bodies. Offering our lives to You is for the sake of fulfilling the duty of a loyal person in relation to that nation. You have searched for the day when You are able to manifest Yourself as our father of glory on the earth, and to clear away the environment of sorrow, where we have been toyed with by the enemy, by forming a people of hope. Therefore, we must become Your sons and daughters who are able to feel this in reality.

Accordingly, Father, please bend down and watch over Your children. We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the True Parents. Amen.

(March 21, 1971)