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Please Let Us Become Fruits Of Joy Who Establish A Day Of Rejoicing

We earnestly hope and desire, Father,
that you will lead our minds and bodies
to the position of being able
to be recognized as your body and limbs.

Many people are leaving
and heading for the heavenly castle,
but when we think about
how many true sons and daughters
are going while looking towards your heart,
we cannot help but stand before you
with minds that are worrying.

You have been calling us
and seeking us for six thousand years.
As the Lord of creation,
you have called us and sought us personally,

but when we think on our own about
whether we have come before your knees
as appropriate fruits of joy,
we realize that it will not do
unless we repent once again before you
for all of the things we have done
in our lives in the past.

It will not do unless we also reflect
on all our everyday actions.
Please pardon that we are in a position
where it will not do
unless we repent
while taking this opportunity today
to look with melancholy at the totality
of how we will act tomorrow as well.

The original people that heaven looked forward
to were people of glory, and the people heaven sought
were people heaven could be proud of;
but today we could not become those kinds of people,
and we have not become original true people
whom you can call, Father.

When we discover that we cannot help
but feel grief about our own selves,
we earnestly hope and desire, Father,
that you will allow us to have
at least earnest minds which repent
that we have no honor before you.

Now we know that you are longing for true sons
and you are longing for true daughters
who are able to shed tears looking on this land
while holding hands together with you, Father.
We know that many people,
even though they had held your hand,
have gone our and turned their backs on you,
and they think they have been forgotten by you.

But today we earnestly hope and desire, Father,
that you will let us become sons and daughters
who are able to remain
and report our situation to you,
and hold on to your hand,
having offered our lives
and commanded our bodies with sincere hearts
that are heading towards heaven.

Even though many people resent heaven,
exclude heaven,
and stand in a position of betraying heaven,
we earnestly hope and desire, Father,
that you will allow at least us
to become sons and daughters
who seek the day of rejoicing
in which you can find joy,
and who have unchanging hearts.

Please do not let us become people
who move through our minds alone.
We earnestly hope and desire
that you will let us become sons and daughters
who are able to reveal your glory
by offering our bodies as holy,
living sacrifices to you, Father.

We have come to know that the original homeland
which you have left behind remains only as an ideal.
We earnestly hope and desire, Father,
that you will now allow us
to have your heart in ourselves
and to come to know that the responsibility
and mission of accomplishing that ideal on the earth
in reality still remains.

You have gone forth
in order to save our unworthy human selves.
Now please do not allow any changes in our minds
which are praying,
as we head towards the one final day of victory,
and while earnestly hoping
that you will not allow us
to stand in the position of children
lacking filial piety,
we have humbly prayed all these things
in the name of the Lord. Amen.

March 29, 1959