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Please Let Us Long For Heavenly Families

Father!
We must become people
who are able to realize
and weep over the sorrow of our father
who was not able to find
the sons and daughters
he wanted to find on this earth,
but please pardon us,
for we have been in the pitiful situation
of wandering around searching
for our own satisfaction.

Jesus, too,
looked at his mother and younger brothers
who were in this kind of situation,
and said, "For whoever does the will of my Father
in heaven is my brother, and sister, and mother."

We are people
who do not have parents of the original nature,
who do not have brothers and sisters
of the original nature,
who do not have children of the original nature,
and who have not become couples
of the original nature.

Since what we must hope and long for
now are parents of the original nature,
brothers and sisters of the original nature,
children of the original nature,
and couples of the original nature,
we earnestly hope and desire, Father,
that you will allow us
to become sons and daughters
who long for parents of the original nature,
who long for brothers and sisters
of the original nature,
who long for children of the original nature,
who long for couples of the original nature,
and who forget our own prestige
and wander looking for them.

Please let a movement of people
begin in heaven and earth
in which they are able
to enjoy the lives of heavenly families
which attend you directly.

We earnestly hope and desire, Father,
that in heaven and earth
you will let a heartistic revolution,
a revolution of love arise,
which we cannot help but respond
to even if we don't want to,
and we cannot help but go to,
even if we don't want to,
as we are transformed by that ideal
and enjoy it.

Earnestly hoping that you will allow us
to take that as our guiding principle of life
and to have it become a turning point in our lives.
We have humbly prayed all these things
in the name of the Lord. Amen.

September 27, 1959