Prayer: Please Allow Us a Foundation of Security and Your Outstretched Hand of Protection

Sun Myung Moon
November 6, 1960

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Father! Please particularly remember this time. Please give your blessing to many human beings. And among them, please give your blessing to the many religious organizations calling your name. Please especially bless those who are being cast out as they cling to your heart. And please bless those who have gone out casting aside everything in order to be a living sacrifice for heaven not troubling themselves over blood, sweat and tears. We believe that you will be together with them. We believe that you will fight together with them.

Father! More than anyone else, more than any other people, more than any other believers, our minds want to live for you, and we want to attend you, and in your care, we want to fight every battle together with you. Among the many peoples, it was this people you called, and among the many believers, we are the sons and daughters you called; therefore please consider our minds trustworthy, and we dare to ask you to come to us.

We have understood your command calling us to come, and we have understood your will to send us out several times telling us to pioneer this path. We know that you have counselled us when we were discouraged, have told us, "I am here," when we were in sorrow, and you have comforted us. We know that you did so in the past, are doing so in this moment, and will do so tomorrow.

We know that we cannot form a relationship with you in a comfortable place, and we cannot meet you on a smooth path. We know that this is because you still are not in a comfortable place, and cannot walk a smooth path.

Only if one seeks to take on your sorrow, Father, as one's own sorrow, and seeks to walk your path of suffering in your stead can one relate to you personally. We have learned, realized, and experienced that you can open your heart and speak your mind on the foundation of a natural heart.

Those who follow your footsteps on the lonely path you are going are lonely people. We know that you do not distinguish day or night to gather those who are in that kind of position because you are that way. Therefore, please personally reach out and protect your sons and daughters who have gathered together for the one will and at this time have the same situation, same heart and same hope, and we earnestly hope that you will move them onto a secure foundation through the same grace. We have humbly prayed these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.

Prayer: Please Let Us Go All The Way on the Path We Must Go

Sun Myung Moon
October 2, 1960

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Father! As this is the final time when all sins must be atoned for, today our minds feel extreme anxiety. This land is completely filled with groans of suffering. Please allow a day to come when your heart at the time of creation can blossom again, by having the precious son of heaven be born, and by having him be able to atone for the suffering and guilt of history. And we earnestly hope and desire that you will allow a victorious new garden to begin through him. Since we know that it will not do unless that kind of world is realized, please let us be able to bear this real suffering.

We know that peak after peak of blood still remain on the way we must go, and a long, difficult, range of dangerous high mountains is standing in our way. But this way is not a way we alone are going. It is a way on which you have gone back and forth before us, scores of times, thousands of times, millions of times.

Now we have also realized the fact that it is not you who should pave the way on difficult paths, humankind must pave the way and go forward. Please let us be able to take over the final footstep for the sake of our father who has worked so hard, while going along this rugged path. Since the way we must go still remains, even though we collapse along the way, please let us be able to go, treading in the footprints of our father, and taking the example of the bloodstains left by our father.

We have come to know that when we offer our bodies, which have been wounded and torn, to you as living offerings, you justify your children before all of heaven and earth and bless them. Since we have realized that we must go as far as that kind of position, please do not let us become exhausted until we reach that point.

Please do not let us forget the fact that each time we were exhausted, you offered us your arm; each time we were disappointed and lonely, heaven urged us on, and before we did any work, you had already worked hundreds and thousands of times for us.

You have gone and pioneered this way without resting. Please let us be filled with minds which want to hold you with awe-stricken minds, knowing that you are our father who went forth fighting without becoming exhausted for the sake of our individual lives, and you worked hard without resting in order to pioneer this way because Satan, who is opposing this way without resting, exists. Please let frustrated hearts, which call out to you like crazy, explode in each of our minds.

Please comfort people like that. Since we know that you are promising a great heavenly work and a new world of promise, we earnestly request and desire that you will let us become sons and daughters who are able to raise high before the entire cosmos the glory of victory and songs of victory, by having endured until the end, until that position is established by dealing with those kinds of people. We have prayed in the name of the Lord. Amen

Prayer: Please Protect Your Children Who Are Fighting For the Will in Each Place

Sun Myung Moon
September 25, 1960

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Please do not allow us to become people who are not up to the great work heaven has entrusted to us, or who become exhausted and fall away. Even if we collapse over and over again, even if we vomit blood and die, we earnestly hope and desire that you will allow us to become your sons and daughters who are able to collapse after having completed this mission. We know that your sons and daughters are spread out in all directions, and shedding tears, they are praying and fighting for this work, in lonely and dangerous positions. Father, we earnestly hope and desire that you will be together with them in those positions, as well.

We know that you are not forgetful. We know that when they were lonely, you held on to them; you strengthened those who were appealing to you, as they embraced the Will in desolate positions, and you comforted their hearts. Father, at this time, also, please act with the same heart, with the same works, with the same power. We earnestly hope and desire that you will allow us to become sons and daughters who are able to endure to the end, to fight to the end, until the final remaining wall has been occupied, and who are able to go forward taking responsibility for humankind to the end.

Not only here on the Korean Peninsula, but far overseas as well, many of your children are facing this place, weeping, and appealing to you. Even though their skin colors are different, and their living circumstances are different, relating to the Will, they are brothers and sisters who have the destined relationship of one bloodline. Therefore, we earnestly hope and desire that you will please be with them in each place they have gathered, and embrace them with the fire of grace. Earnestly hoping that you will allow a movement of life to appear which is able to sing of our eternal destined relationship centered on you in the world of the heart, even though we are far apart, we have humbly prayed in the name of the Lord. Amen.

Prayer: Please Let Us Walk The Path Of Loyalty And Filial Piety While Attending You

Sun Myung Moon
May 22, 1960

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Father! Please pardon the fact that we have shed endless tears because of our difficulties. When we had difficulties we often smote our breasts and gnashed our teeth. Please let us realize how unpardonable behavior this was in front of our father. Father, please let us realize that this kind of act could be expected from a traitor who had forgotten the sorrow of heaven, but it is an unreasonable act even in our dreams for a group which knows the sorrow of heaven. We have realized that being joyful even when in sorrow, and being joyful even when in difficulties, and being grateful even if we die are only fulfilling our responsibility at least a little in front of our father, and they are ways to avoid being ashamed in the presence of our father who comes to us.

Now the problem is the kind of position we are in. Have we ever even once greeted our father who came to us, or fed our father who was hungry, or given a drink to our father who was thirsty, or dressed our father who was in need of clothing, or gone to see our father who was in difficulties, or visited our father who was ill? You have said that those positions are where we can always attend you, Father.

We have realized that we must become sacrifices for the whole, and we have realized that it is an ironclad historical rule that the smaller must be sacrificed for the larger. Furthermore since we have realized that great sacrifices must be made in order to establish the will of the heavenly providence, please let us suppress our own sorrows and be more concerned about your sorrows, and suppress our own worries, and be more concerned about your worries, and suppress our own unjust suffering and be more concerned about your unjust suffering. Please let us realize that if we become sons and daughters like that, the heart of heaven comes to be together with us.

We were those who forsook you, when we had suffering, who reported to you when we were in sorrow, who appealed to you to take care of it when we went through unjust suffering. We have realized that this is not the duty of filial children or the duty of loyal subjects or faithful women. We have come to realize that if you are going through unjust suffering, it will not do unless we seek to shoulder that unjust suffering even if we come face to face with a sorrowful position or the position of death, and we have realized that we are the people who must not let you stay in that kind of position if you are in that kind of position, even if we come to stand in a position which is difficult to stand in here on the earth,

Father! Please open the doors of our minds and dwell in us, and please release your grief which has formed during the course of restoration, and please let the joy and glory of attending you with our minds be able to reach and affect this world even to all the created things of heaven and earth. Since we have realized that you are infinitely longing for that day, Father, please let us become people who fight and fight, and weep and weep, going forward for the sake of that day.

We earnestly request that you will allow us to become people who know how to run forward to the altar of glory where we attend you by establishing a standard of heart which says, "I will be loyal to you in that way." We have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.

Prayer: Please Let Us Go the Way of the Will of Our Father Sincerely

Sun Myung Moon
May 8, 1960

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Today our unworthy selves have bowed down before you as a group which has been denounced and driven out. We know that on the path we have taken, heading towards a goal others do not know about, scars from the thrones will remain, and we will be wounded. But, Father, who knows that we must overcome and not mind those things, please allow us to realize that it will not do unless we completely prepare ourselves, pledge and determine ourselves to go that way.

Since we know that it will not do unless at this point we form a true heartistic relationship with heaven, Father, please hold on to us by personally reaching out to us. Please hold us in your embrace of love with both arms. You must have looked forward to and hoped for that so much! Now we can fully imagine your heart, and we can fully imagine your heartbreak.

Please let us repent once again for our lives of the past in which we were not able to feel grateful, even though our unworthy selves, who are not able to call you, "Father," have received the amazing grace of being able to be forgiven of our sins due to the altars of blood raised up by the many prophets. And please bear with the fact that we have come before you empty-handed, even though we should be able to bring and offer results to you.

As you are not a father who requests things of the world, we offer only earnest minds and earnest hearts to you, Father. We have come because we want to offer you ourselves, who are weeping because we long for you, and want to see your face. We came longing for your touch, and we wanted to hold on to your wounded hand and shed tears. We came to hold on to our haggard father, to our father who is overwhelmed by grief, our father who wandered in order to find his lost children and did not mind even though the wounds of his mind and body were severe. If your sons and daughters, who call you "father" filled with this kind of mind, are gathered here, then just as you found me and called me at that kind of moment, I know that you will not cast them away when they have come to that kind of point.

Father! The way you told us to go was not a lonely way; as we have gone it, we have found that it is a way of awesome grace. And we have realized that the way on which you drove us out while telling us to die, was not a way prepared for us to die. When we come to understand these inner reasons, what more is there we could ask for? We have understood that all these are acts to show us testimonies of the work of our father who worked so hard before us. We are grateful for your having allowed us to be able to even weep tears of inspiration and to experience that kind of feeling.

Now what did the people who have gathered here come to find? What did they come here to see, and what kind of relationships did they come here to form? We know that the only things to show them are tears and heartbreaking situations, and the only relationships to be formed are distressing ones. Nevertheless, without this relationship, without this situation, we cannot know where to go, and since these people have come worrying whether they will disappear and come to lament as sacrifices to Satan, we earnestly hope and desire that you will hold on to them this moment.

We know that if you have children you can hold and weep, and you have sons and daughters whom you can call by name, "Hey, So-and-so," from that point on, the acts of heaven will lead this people, and that will become a beginning which heads towards heaven, by moving the hearts of the people of the world, who are asleep. If in this place young hearts are on fire, and holding hands together, and there is a movement shouting out, "Hey, So-and-so, let's go work for the Will!", the way for this people to live will open up, and armies of life will come and fight together in the garden of death.

We have gathered together longing for those kinds of people, and we have gone forth fighting in order to go such a way, and we have gone forth in order to show that to all people, together with our father, by raising up an altar of victory in that kind of place. Therefore, please do not allow this first resolution of our minds to change, and please let us become your sons and daughters whose sincerity and fidelity, that we have determined and want to give you, do not bend. Please let us become your sons and daughters who keep and do not change that resolution or that loyalty as long as the moral principle of heaven does not change. While earnestly hoping for and desiring this, we have humbly prayed all these things in the name of the Lord. Amen.

True Parents’ Holy Wedding

Monday, April 11, 1960 (3.16 on the lunar calendar) Former church headquarters, Seoul, Korea

Note: This has been translate and edited by TP magazine team, and published in April 2014 issue of True Peace magazine.

The History Compilation Committee has been digitizing old recordings. In the course of their work, they discovered an audio recording of a statement by True Mother and True Father’s prayer and message at their Holy Wedding fifty four years ago. This is a translated transcript of that holy, historic material.

True Mother:

Nothing can fully describe God’s heart now. To this one place which encompasses the entire six-thousand-year providence, you have sent your daughter; I feel indescribably awed in front of your call as you found and established me to realize your will. I pledge to become one with everyone here in all aspects of deep heart until the day your will is achieved.

Father’s prayer:

With earnestness piercing and flowing from our hearts, we are aware that this is a time when this echoing, beating pulse and this one streak of the movement of blood and flesh felt in our hearts can replace the original heart.

Father, as you brought about this one day that you sought, over and over again, for six thousand years, we thank you for bringing about this day in history and for allowing your daughter to be able to set up the new course of a mother in front of the cosmos.

I express my gratitude as this is a time— being a victorious day today—through which you have appeared in front of all things that have perfected their heavenly nature in the universe that you created and that this time is one through which you have been able to claim victory for the first time in front of the satanic world by being equipped with a condition for liberation by finding this one day.

I know that now is a time through which we claim victory and Satan carries the sorrow of defeat; a time when our lives and satanic people’s lives will be transposed. O Heaven, please raise the banner of victory. O earth! Please offer joy in return to the Father.

Glory, glory, unending glory. I know that this hour is one in which heaven and earth come together in joy. May all descendants and the entire universe delight in this joyful time for eternity. Father, even if we are to die, allow us to march on toward the satanic world and invest our heart and soul in establishing your children as heroes within restoration as soon as possible and to make this pledge to you.

Please accept your daughter, who has been established today. Crown her with a laurel of victory and allow her to become a daughter that can cut off all your sorrow and resentment. May the time ahead of us, as of this day, become one of victorious glory alone and I sincerely hope that you are always present within the lives of all members. I pray this under the name of the person you have sent. Amen.

True Father:

What happened here today may seem simple in your eyes. If seen as just a ceremony, it may look like an event that just lasted for a few dozen minutes. Yet, when you look at it from Heaven’s standpoint, all the vicissitudes of the six thousand years are encompassed here.

Hence, knowing this and for you to achieve the will, you must be able to take after Teacher’s heart, accept the will as an unfinished work and work on achieving the immense will by cooperating with it.

God’s history is the history of restoration. However, what kind of restoration does it require? It requires complete restoration. Complete restoration! It asks for complete restoration. During Adam’s era, God tried to bring restoration through the brothers. In Esau’s time, God tried to do so through the twins. He did it again through Perez and Zerah while they were still in the womb. By passing this standard, the next standard to be passed—based on the previous standard—is the bride-and-groom standard. We must pass through the bride and groom.

In that case, what should be done in order to pass through it? A one to one indemnity condition must be set in its intact form, just as in the era when Adam fell. You are following a course through which you can indemnify a lot with smaller conditions. However, if one has responsibility over the whole, one must pay the same amount of indemnity; one must be able to set such conditions and pass through them from a difficult position.

Hence, if established churches and the Korean people had supported me when I first set off on this course, I wouldn’t have gone through such suffering. I set off on this path at the age of twenty-six; if they had supported God’s will, Mother would have been chosen at that time.

To attain the stage where Mother can be chosen, all the vicissitudes of the six-thousand- year history must be resolved. However, for this to happen, a bridge must be laid, a solution found and one must be able to break off from all of Satan’s conditions first. As a result, my entire youth passed while trying to follow this course. Now I am over forty. I have passed forty hills. Even if I am over forty, the principled standard cannot be ignored; as a result, young Mother was chosen. The standard requires the bride be under twenty.

From a secular point of view, I could grieve about many aspects because I have aged and face major tasks ahead, and to think that I must advance with a young person can be somewhat sorrowful. That doesn’t mean it is actually so though. The time has already come and we have accomplished this; there is no such thing as face-saving or the likes of that here. As of now, whatever you hear and however it is, it won’t be a problem anymore. Please know that, understand why Mother was chosen at such a young age in this providential age and give her your great support in the future.

Please bear this in mind; absolutely remain humble as we still have a long way to go in the future. Do not assume that fire will come down from heaven and finish everything at once. You should have the conviction, “Father, we are okay even if you do not help us. We are confident that we can move the world just by being equipped with the words of truth and our experiences of the deep heart. We are certain.” Do you promise to live with such confidence and determination? [Yes]/

Three Prayers from the day of the True Parents' Blessing

Sun Myung Moon
April 10, 1960

Prayer 1

Father,

You are working so hard for the accomplishment of Your Will. We stand again before You today in shame. Your providence was to have been glorious and You were to have looked with jubilation upon Your rejoicing sons and daughters in the garden. As a result of the unthinkable fall, however, Your providence could no longer be one of happiness but became instead a deplorable providence of sadness and suffering. Our Father who had to tread such a providence! We became the motivation and cause of such a providence, and we must now repent for our historic guilt and the guilt of the era. Father, we know that You long for the eternal world of peace and You are working ceaselessly to fulfill the providence. Also, we now bow our heads in repentance, because for the sake of that future world which You so desire, we know that without asking Your blessing, the providence will remain unfulfilled. We know that not one of the relationships of Yourself and mankind, mankind and creation, and Yourself and creation, was created outside of Your Shim Jung of love.

Father, the eternal father-and-son bond through which Shim Jung flows broke apart from the day of the fall. We know that heaven, mankind and creation -- each in the state of having lost their object -- have up till now resided in the realm of lamentation.

Father of Love! You know our situation well -- we who have not broken free of the grief and curse of the fall and who languish on the miserable road of fate. In order to permit Your blessing today, You have worked through several thousand years of history. However, as You look back upon us, we know that, while we must receive Your consent, the responsibility for establishing the foundation of the blessing is great. Now it is time to rebuild all of the Shim Jung ties that were severed between heaven and mankind. We know that we must restore the different groups of mankind and once again tie the Shim Jung bond that enables heaven to sing. Not only that, but the universe of harmony was to have been established from the beginning. It was to have been the basis for harmony within the domain of the eternal bond, the conditional object for victory and material for an ideological life.

Compassionate Father, there are many of Your flock who wander in search of the bond of Shim Jung, but few who know what Your Shim Jung is like. We earnestly wish that You can once again embrace this mankind that doesn't know Your Shim Jung and has been going the path of restoration while wandering in this world of darkness.

Father, this day is a holy day. Please bless Your sons and daughters gathered here who do not flee the path of sorrowful fate and are ready and determined to follow Your footsteps. Father, You promised a victorious day; we look upon Your Will and pledge to offer everything that we have. Loving Father, we earnestly desire that You let us become Your sons and daughters who don't know how to yield or be defeated and who will advance forward toward the goal of Your Will, singing the song of victory.

On this holy day, please give Your blessing upon all people. Father, we earnestly desire that You can reconnect the bond that heaven has sought with so many people everywhere.

We know that the Shim Jung of the trinity is to undo the grief and sorrow of restoration to reconnect the fallen bond and to build the completion of restoration upon that foundation of Shim Jung. We long to establish the Shim Jung bond of ourselves, our families, tribe, nation, world and cosmos.

Father, we bow our heads before You without even regarding our disloyalty and insufficiency. Forgive us, for we cannot come before You without tearful prayer.

Father, bless this day. By losing Shim Jung, mankind has lost the way to its final destination. Three billion pitiful people live on this earth. However, within these three billion people there are many religious groups that glorify Your goodness and, concentrating their pitiful hearts, raise unknown altars, crying out, beating the ground.

Father, we know that Your history is not one of discarding sinful mankind but that of finding and restoring man to his original state.

Father, we know that You have, up till now, held on to this dead world in order to establish and recreate the lost ideal of creation. Likewise, if today there are sons and daughters who are earnestly appealing in order to connect Your ideology and Shim Jung to the world, please grant them the same grace. Moreover, You know that at this time there are people who -- even in the face of ruthless persecution and adverse winds -- kneel down and appeal, glorifying one streak of the light of life and the experience of the Shim Jung bond. Please grant Your blessing upon them.

Father, You know the motive of our gathering here. You know that we are concentrating our good faith to come closer to Your world of Shim Jung. Please allow this time to be one where we can gather our earnestness together with our faith to attend You with our fervent hearts more deeply. Please allow us to become Your sons and daughters whose earnest hearts can bond with You and who can have faith in Your blessing. Please place Your blessing upon the people today. Father, there are lonely figures who have gathered here and are kneeling because they long for You. Please do not reject but embrace them. Please make this time one which Satan cannot take advantage of at all.

Please move and be intimate among this gathering where many saints, heavenly soldiers and angels -- together with Heaven's help - sing of the Shim Jung bond that flows within. Please put this audience in Your hand and manage it according to Your Will.

Father, we pray that You may bond all things on the foundation of victory, in the name of the Lord.

Amen.

Prayer II

Father! Please receive us, for we have gathered at this place and stand before You. We know that these pitiful 30 million people have been protected and loved by Heaven without their knowledge. We know that Heaven has nurtured this desolate 3,000 ri Korean peninsula so that one person can come forth and face the dawn of new history.

Please look upon these lonely people with compassion. Please look with compassion on this 3,000 ri Korean peninsula which has suffered so greatly at the hands of its surrounding environment. Father, we know You have kept this peninsula -- these people You love -- with compassion.

Father, please love again these 30 million people and please love again this 3,000 ri garden.

At this time the number of Your flock who have come and bowed their heads in front of You is small; yet, who among them does not long for Your Shim Jung even more than their own existence, or does not long in their hearts for the garden of goodness? However, so many people do not know the path to follow and are wandering. Father, please remember today those who have lost their value and wander, not knowing the right path.

Father, You do not call someone because he is distinguished. We know that it has been Your singleminded course, wherever there are sons and daughters who know You and shed tears longing for Your Shim Jung, to put aside Your dignity and honor, and stop Your busy footsteps to hold them in Your hands and encourage them.

Compassionate Father, please protect the road ahead for this pitiful mankind. Moreover, we earnestly desire that You protect the many saints who long for Your garden and call to Heaven.

There are people who, in order to follow the traditional course of Your ancient sons and daughters, have thrown away everything -- people who, having put aside their dignity and honor, do not eat what is to be eaten, wear what is to be worn -- who, focusing their heart and soul, cry before Your altar. Please bestow Your blessing on them.

6,000 years to long for the one day of happiness when, having connected life to life, We can attend our Father! Even fallen man longs for that day. Please let us understand You and how we can embrace the original Shim Jung.

We do not want to possess any particular thing or power. Father, it is our desire that we keep to Your bloodstained footsteps, setting up a small cornerstone that You can be happy with in the fallen valley. Please allow us to become Your sons and daughters who bow their heads in shame before Your unfulfilled Will and know how to walk Your course in tears.

Father! We are grateful that You have brought us together at this place today. From the first day we knew we must go this way, we knew also that Your earnest voice was calling us to come. Father, we want to thank You for protecting our footsteps from the day we heard bloodstained crying from Your heartbroken Shim Jung.

While walking Your course there were treacherous roads, and only You gave us solace. We want to thank You for the grace of having protected us, who have come, ever worried that we might stain ~even one aspect of Your holy tradition.

We know that You have stood at the forefront of Your lonely path and cultivated it. We know the Shim Jung of comforting those who are lonely while harboring sorrow from Your sad position. We know Your aching Shim Jung that cannot discard the grievous masses who bear the cross of suffering, wandering in Satan's domain and add to the burden of Your cross.

Now, what should we who have heard Your calling, who have experienced Your Shim Jung, hesitate for? What should we fear? Our wish is to bring You glory, giving ourselves as the offering. Father, because You know that only then can we untie all the sorrow, we earnestly appeal that you compassionately watch over us.

Your sons and daughters who have gathered here today have walked a lonely road. They have walked a sorrowful road. You know the one road that only Heaven knows, the bond established with Heaven, our Shim Jung which can connect with Heaven. We know that this gathering has not come about in one or two days but is only one scene that came about from the bond of 6,000 years of blood. Father, we earnestly wish that You allow us to realize that the history of indemnity demands that blood: not the blood of death, but the blood of glory that is full of life.

Father! As we face this day, you know of our sad hearts, regretful Shim Jung, and our Shim Jung which replaces Your unjustly suffering Shim Jung. Those who follow You from this position are pitiable. Father, while on this road we have been rejected, beaten and imprisoned. We earnestly pray that You allow this absolute eternal course, and the determined, rock-like heart which cannot break from the lifebond tied with You, to remain.

Please allow Your sons and daughters gathered here to become ones who know nothing but their course and destination and ones who in death will keep running towards their goal. If there was a sorrowful incident, we prayed together with You. Father, we fear that we could change and tie bonds with Satan, being used for his design. Please allow us to follow the example of principle and honor set by the trinity, taking it as unfinished work and allowing us to become ones who can lay the cornerstone for heavenly Shim Jung which You establish today.

We know that the mission bestowed upon us is vitally important. We go once, twice and again to You but still remain in the condition of disloyalty, impiety, inferiority and incompleteness before You. Please open Your large outstretched hands of love, for we have gathered here, having been unable to break free from the fate of complaint and grieving. We earnestly pray that You allow this time to be one where You can open your heartbroken Shim Jung and frankly say, "I have lived this way up till now for your sake and I have come this way in order to find you."

We know that the people whom Heaven wants, expects and looks for are not those with much knowledge or those who follow without will, but those who grasp Your heart and shed tears in deep shame. We learned that without going through Shim Jung one cannot undo the grief and sorrow that came about from Shim Jung. Father, we earnestly desire that You allow us to become your sons and daughters who will attend You as "my Father," take over Your loneliness and sorrow-soaked grievous Shim Jung, and comfort and attend You.

Please grant Your blessing upon the billions of mankind and the 30 million people here. Moreover, we know that at this moment there are many of Your sons and daughters who are in lonely situations, faced with cold frost, who cannot eat nor clothe themselves, yet shed sorrowful tears to establish loyalty before You. It is a sad thing. We earnestly desire that You comfort each of their hearts and show them, who long for the day of happiness, a sign of glory and victory.

Please recognize the gathered figures of Your sons and daughters as holy, and allow this time to be one which Satan cannot take advantage of at all. By having Your seal of love stamped to be eternal sons and daughters, please connect at this time each Shim Jung so that through this bond we can be claimed as Yours. Please have the new history of happiness and the jubilation of re-creation before those gathered here, so that it may be full and ripe in their hearts.

Please control this remaining time. We pray that You allow the promise of glory and the grace of happiness to be upon all the members in Heaven and Your true sons and daughters on earth. In the name of the Lord we pray.

Amen.

Prayer III

Father, please let us see what kind of position our Shim Jung is in. I, who wanted to lift up and praise my own value. Now please allow me to take apart once again the thing in myself that makes me insist on "I". Having spanned the past and lived in reality, now I do not know what position my life is in or my value today. We cannot help but feel that "I" of the past is not much different from "I" of today. Please allow us to reexamine where our hearts are centered now. Please allow our minds to not become those which float aimlessly. Please do not allow our minds to languish and forget our own position without a goal.

Jesus said that even though Heaven and earth change, his words will not change even one iota. In light of this, please let us know that his speaking in itself is unchanging. We know that Jesus' words were not to bring about people who liked those words but to make people who would like to unite with Jesus' Shim Jung and body. Father, when our minds address Your Will or Your Shim Jung, we know that the question is from which position we can or cannot become figures who can cultivate our lives today with the value of the means of purpose and the bond of the objective relationship.

Father! It is grievous that this heart lost the position of being able to have You reside within it. We know that it is grievous that the qualification to discuss one's value together with the whole world and Heaven was lost. Original man, knowing the course to follow, making a relationship with Heaven's Lord, must praise Your value, highness and goodness in the atmosphere of freedom. We know that we are human beings who must harmonize and rejoice together with You through Your Shim Jung. Mankind is wandering to find its lost original position and laboring to find its lost original value. Our wish is to sing together with You forever in the purposed garden in which Your Shim Jung is invested and in which mind and body can be happily harmonized.

Until we can claim it all, please allow us to be Your sons and daughters who don't know how to waiver, from the day we start our footsteps in the direction of that garden, no matter what hardship or sorrow comes. At the same time, please decorate with the value of unchanging loyalty the Shim Jung of wholehearted determination towards You, our Father. Let this be like the unchanging pine and bamboo which rise up more than enough to move the entire world of existence on Heaven or earth.

We know that if there is a Lord of Creation, we can reason that that kind of figure is desirable and that it would be Your wish as well. We earnestly desire that You allow us to become Your sons and daughters who bond with our Father upon that foundation and have no insufficiencies in stamping out the fallen and grave evil world.

Although this body is scarred, I offer it before You. I also lay out this unmanageable mind which wanders as if on the street. Also laid out are all of the past deeds that went wrong, which languish, unable to find a resting place. Please allow this time to be one where we who have seen You, the grace of the subjective real existence and eternal being, can bow before the Father of life and love.

Nothing belongs to us. We have given it all to You. Please help us, so that if our bodies are not right, purify them. If our minds aren't right, return them to the original position by any means necessary. If our Shim Jung isn't right, restore the bond with Father by breaking it if necessary.

We earnestly desire that You advise us, for we know that in establishing the bond there are many instructions to be followed.

What can I now say? We know that till now, for You to speak in front of us, Your grief is great and our hearts are anxious. Father, please be with us. We know that before the body comes mind, before mind comes Shim Jung and before Shim Jung we must attend the Heavenly moral laws. Please express at this time Your heartbrokenness and the Shim Jung You worry about. Please allow this pent-up Shim Jung revolution to take place and for many of those who repent of betraying Heaven's bond to come forward.

Please allow for the will of the giver to be equal to the will of the receiver.

Please allow us to experience the promise of happiness when without even knowing it we get swept up in Your total atmosphere as the consciousness of existence gets captured by Your encircling consciousness, together with Shim Jung. At this time, when there are lonely people who kneel and bow their heads in prayer in all regions of South Korea, please be with them. Moreover, at this time there are members who shed tears longing for this position. Please be together with them as well. How sad are the hearts of those who, because of being tied up with their situations, cannot move according to Your Will. Please hold and shower them with great grace at this time.

May the trinity manage this remaining time entrusted to us. Please bless all the spirit men who gather their Shim Jung together with all the good men who long for Your affinity, under the domain of Shim Jung of a common membership. As we ask that you allow this time to be one of making the bond relationship, we pray in the name of the Lord.

Amen.

Heart and heaven

Sun Myung Moon
February 14, 1960

What kind of place is heaven? It is where we can take pride in what we prepared during our life on earth, and in our life of attendance. Then what kind of people enters heaven? Is heaven a place for those who simply believe in the Lord and expect to receive blessings or who act only for the sake of receiving blessing? No. Heaven is the destination for those who live preparing their hearts to attend God, as well as those who can leave behind a life of attendance and joyfully move on, even if they were to die while preparing. There is resurrection there. The details of life do not appear there. How we should live from now on is the important question we should reflect upon in our life of attendance.

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Heaven is a place we cannot enter without a connection of heart. It is the original nation, the nation of original nature, which can govern everything. It is a nation that cannot be possessed based on some situation, but only by those who have a deep bond of heart. As such, Christianity is, ultimately speaking, is a religion where mutual sentiments are understood, rather than circumstances. The purpose of God's providence on earth is to make the foundation on which we can sing sharing our hearts beyond sharing circumstances.

What is the Fall? It is not a matter of God not being able to discuss His circumstances, but rather His heart. Coming in search of fallen humanity with the heart of longing to meet His lost sons and daughters, yet not being able to find anyone who could share His heart, God has worked to find such people. That has been the history of salvation and the one sent to find such people is the Savior.

Before desiring heaven, we must desire to know God's heart; and before desiring to know God's heart, we must think about how we should conduct our lives. First, have a heart of attendance. Our original nature reveres and yearns for that which is sublime and precious. In spite of the Fall, our original heart wants to attend the sublime and precious heart of God. Therefore, those who have never been able to lead a heartcentered life of attendance have nothing to do with heaven.

To live a life of attendance we need preparation. After passing through a process of preparation, we need to then practice the life of attendance. Our destination, after preparing and practicing a life of attendance, is heaven. The destination of people who have attended with their hearts is heaven. Heaven is the world where we can be proud of our preparation for attendance and the life of attendance, and where we can actually demonstrate our accomplishments. It is our destiny to follow the course that advances toward the world of heavenly purpose.

From the day we were born with fallen lineage until the present day, there has not been even one day when all humankind attended God with a full heart. Before Adam and Eve fell, they grew according to the ideal of creation, but they never attended God based on a relationship of heart.

What is God's regret? It is that we, who were created to attend Him with our heart, fell into a position where we could not do so, and that God, who should have received heart-centered attendance, was left unattended. God was not anguished because there was nobody who believed in or knew Him. The grief of heaven and earth is that there was nobody who could attend or relate to God in heart.