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Please Let Us Harmonize With You Through Our Minds And Bodies

We cannot help but worry
whether our natures
dare be offered to you, Father,
and when we reflect on our own
about whether our minds and bodies
are such that they can receive
the purpose you have allowed,
we cannot help but bow our heads
with embarrassed minds.
Therefore, please take pity on us, Father.

Who is there who would dare
to stand before you, Father,
and who is there who has the confidence
to be able to stand before you?
We know that the farther we go,
the more we know there could be
no one who does not feel the sorrow of heaven
which seems to cut right through us.

There has been no one
who knew that there are traces of your toil,
that you have a heart,
and that your awesome internal nature exists
which makes us not know
what to do with ourselves,
and makes us unable to lift up our faces.
But you have raised us
to be able to know
about those kinds of facts,
and we thank you for that.

To whom is this due?
This did not happened
because we are so wonderful,
and it did not happen
because we have everything
we should have.

Please allow us to know
that it happened
because our many ancestors,
who admired goodness throughout history,
formed with heaven a destined relationship
which affected us
without our even knowing it.

Please allow us to know
that we of today
are not just we ourselves alone.
Please take dominion over us
so that we will become people
who are able to respect
that destined relationship
and rejoice together
in that destined relationship;
and please do not let us
become people who betray that relationship.

Father! In what kind of position are our minds?
Please let us think on our own
about what our bodies are waiting for,
why they are moving,
and where they want to he placed.

Please let us feel through our minds
that in the midst of silence, at this time, too,
you are urging us to feel the value of life.
And please let us know
that you are our Father
who cannot help but feel sorrow
while looking at humankind
because of the tragic reality
of their struggling
to hold on to their lives alone.

Oh Father, who rules the world
of our hearts and minds,
please come personally,
and rule over us all at this time
according to the original nature,
and take dominion over us
according to the true nature.

We earnestly hope and desire, Father,
that you will allow us new words,
and that you will let us stand
in a position where we are able
to harmonize with you
through our minds and bodies,
having become people
who are in harmony with the words of goodness,
and who enjoy relating to goodness,
to people of the original nature,
and to people of the true nature.

Where are there good-looking people,
and where are there ugly people?
Since we know that
we are one through our hearts,
please allow us to be able
to move and be still
and to harmonize
and comply with the heart of heaven.

And please let your glory alone
appear in front of all of our lives,
and please act to let the grace of your life
penetrate deep into our innermost hearts.

We earnestly hope and desire
that by moving our minds and hearts,
you will allow this to become a time
in which new decisions and determinations
to resolve the grief of restoration
and to pioneer the course of eternal life,
explode out of our innermost hearts.

At this time
please allow the right of life
to all the multitudes
who are bowing their heads here,
and while earnestly requesting
that your many sons and daughters
who are in heaven will harmonize with us, too,
and cooperate in establishing
the foundation of victorious glory.
We have humbly prayed all these things
in the name of the Lord. Amen.

October 25, 1959