Sun Myung Moon
August 29, 1971
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Oh Father of great mercy! Oh Heaven, which has experienced losses until now having destined relationships of compassion and sympathy, please bend down and look at our inadequate selves. When we consider your original authority and position, we come to think that you are a holy being whom fallen humankind dare not relate to, and we must think deploringly of the fact that you, our father who is like that, have suffered unjustly going forward taking responsibility alone for the path of suffering. But if there is an opportunity for us to be able to notify heaven and earth about this, we must know that before we notify them about pitiful humankind, we are the people who must notify them first about our pitiful heavenly parents.
Even if we are in a position which is able to reach the Kingdom of Heaven, more than hoping for the authority of heaven, we must feel acutely that before us on our road of life there remain many times when we will have to go the kind of road where we comfort heaven, endure and go through many things. Please let us awaken once more to the fact that we must become dashing sons and daughters you can be proud of who today also of their own volition protect the road to the battle; who, as the pioneers of tomorrow, long for the appearance of victory; who determine to overcome, and who do not know what it means to become exhausted even in a living environment of unfavorable conditions.
Since we feel the fact that unless we move according to your innermost heart, and we become beings who are connected to your situation, and, as fruits of goodness, become stepping stones on this earth, you will not be able to walk, we earnestly request that you will allow us to become sons and daughters who live comforting and attending our father who is going a lonely way even one day more quickly. We have humbly prayed in the name of our True Parents. Amen.