Reverend Sun Myung Moon: Prayers: Episode 38

Reverend Sun Myung Moon: Prayers
A Lifetime of Conversation with Our Heavenly Parent
Hope: Please Realize A Family That Can Become The Beginning of The Kingdom of Heaven, Page 52

Please Realize A Family That Can Become The Beginning of The Kingdom of Heaven

Father! Through our feelings in our daily lives, we know that even in the world, too, if one seeks to love centered on oneself, one ends up as a lonely person. But we can see that if a person seeks to love others and endlessly presents content of worldwide value for the sake of others, even if that person wants to stand alone in a lonely position, the environment does not let him stand in a lonely position.

Father! We have realized that we must become the true men, and we must become the true women You are seeking. And we have also realized the truth that the family is the place where the beginning of love, which can bring such men and women into oneness, can come into being.

The path of finding the Principle is the pursuit of the realm of the original four position foundation in which the parents are above and are attended, and the children are below and are led in that family. When we think about that, we realize at this time that we must criticize ourselves, knowing how far we are from that position.

We have realized that as for the absolute realm of relative beings, which can become one together with God, through that position, which also establishes the worldwide horizontal national viewpoint and the world viewpoint, the beginning of the Kingdom of Heaven starts from a family in which a man and a woman become one centered on heaven.

When we think that the value of character is decided in that position as well, we will have to think centered on that position. When we come to be in that position, we realize the fact that the Kingdom of Heaven exists in our individual minds testifies to the words Jesus spoke, "The kingdom of God is in the midst of You." If the children who have come to this place today call heaven "Father" while having the name of "children," and they have minds that recognize the earth as their noble mother, Father, please let them realize clearly that they must now fulfill the duties that go with being children.

Please let us know that we must long for our heavenly parent, and we must long for the value of heavenly couples and the value of heavenly children, and we must ardently feel that the grace of allowing the descendants of fallen humankind to be able to inherit today that kind of position of value is a destined relationship to be so appreciated that there is nothing with which we can repay it.

Father! From this time on, we entrust all our actions to You. We feel anew that the beginning of the Kingdom of Heaven and our standard of value must become one. We know that everyone here must already know that, centered on the family, we must now establish new destined relationships of the three great loves, and that from a position of being able to apply that as a daily motivation in all our lives, we must become a movement that goes forth pursuing one world. Therefore, we ask over and over again that You will please be together with our determination, through Your infinite love and grace. 

We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the True Parents. Amen. 
(November 21, 1970)