Please Let Us Realize That You Created All Things To Receive Joy

Father, who created all the things
of heaven and earth for your glory!
Please allow us to feel once again
that your heart of hope, joy, and love
fills all of the things of creation.

Please let us become sons and daughters
who are able to realize that
there is not one single being
that your hands have not touched
for the sake of that lofty and precious hope.

Please do not let us forget
that there was that kind of day of joy
that you created all the things of creation
for your eternal nobility and glory,
and all the things of creation
carne into being in order
to be held in your bosom of grace.

Please do not let us forget
that there was a foundation of eternal love,
a foundation of eternal happiness
on which you and all the things of creation,
having joined into one, could have lived,
and could not have been separated
even if you and they had wanted to,
by your having established
the source of eternal life
and the authority of eternal life.

Having all things
filled with the hope you anticipated,
the glory you hoped for,
and the love you looked forward to eagerly,
was your hope and the purpose of creation,
but who could have even imagined
that that hope
would bear fruit of sorrow and despair?

Who could have known
that you who should receive glory
would be in the regrettable situation
of being ridiculed by your enemies?

Who could have known that,
in spite of having to reveal
the glory of victory and praise
the glory of heaven and praise
the glory of earth
in front of your infinite love,
with tears of sorrow
we would shed blood
and our flesh would he ripped,
for the sake of the historical course
of the restoration of grief?

In this way today,
there is no place on this earth
for the world of hope to go,
and in heaven and earth
this kind of foundation has disappeared
without remaining anywhere,
and it has become filled with sorrow.

When we come to know that, we,
who imagine your mind today
and who are feeling your heart,
cannot help but be bitter
about the past days,
and we cannot help but sneer
at the miserable history of humankind.

Please let us realize
how regrettable a fact it is
that we are in this kind of position.

In spite of the fact that
this is the universe
you wanted to embrace
and these are the children
you wanted to love,
today the things of creation
all over this earth
have become symbols of sorrow,
and the people are descendants
who have betrayed your love,
and are descendants
who have trampled
upon your foundation of heart.

When we come to know this kind of fact,
please let all of your young children
who have gathered here at this time,
feel in our minds how precious a thing is
each one's responsibility
of having to comfort your sorrow,

and please let us be able to pledge
that we will become beings who are able
to comfort your sorrow
and repent for all the sins of the past
on bended knees.

While earnestly requesting
that you will allow
this heaven and earth to become a happy
one where we can live with
and attend our original father,
we have humbly prayed all these things
in the name of the Lord. Amen.