We Want To Become Lights Of Joy Before You, Father

Father!
You are a holy being.
You are a being
who should not be pitiful.
As the Lord of creation,
you are the symbol
of eternal glory and power;
then how did you become so pitiful?

How is it that
the regrettable situation remains
that you alone have to drink
the bitter cup of the defeated?

We know the fact
that the rash and thoughtless action
of the ancestors of humankind
ended up corrupting this history
of billions of ages
and created the root of indignation.

This is not something
that is limited to Adam and Eve alone;
rather, we, who are their descendants,
as descendants of the fall
connected to the blood of our ancestors
from generation to generation,
have the bodies of the same fallen heirs.

Therefore, please let us know the fact
that people who cannot feel an anger
that makes them gnash their teeth
with indignation when thinking of that,
cannot go to heaven.

When we look up at the morning sunshine,
that brilliant light of hope,
we want to become your sons and daughters
who can become the light of joy for you.
Please allow that.

We earnestly hope
that you will let us be able
to realize that we cannot go
into your world of love
without a strong heart,
and be able to clear away
all the sins left behind by our ancestors
who tragically lacked filial piety.

Although there are many people on the earth,
where is there a son,
or where is there a daughter
who is able to embrace and comfort
your wounded heart?

There has not been anyone
who has offered devotion
in order to resolve the grief
of the thousands of years of history
while attending you.

Even though there are people who,
as their dying wish,
have wished their descendants
to prosper for millions of generations,
there has not been a single person
who has advised that we must live
a certain way because it is God's will.

We know that on the path of death,
many of our ancestors wished blessings
on this people as their dying wish,
but all those dying wishes
could not help but disappear.
Today, the members of the Unification Movement
must not become people like that.

We know that even if humankind disappears,
only if their dying wishes remain
will their dignity be established.

We know that because
that kind of path is the way humankind must go,
you have planted in our minds
that we must go that kind of path.

We will become offerings before your Will.
We must become a movement
that is able to go along that path
more actively than anyone else,

and we must determine
to have the final victory
for the sake of the situation of our Father,
who is heading towards that purpose.
And we earnestly hope and desire
that you will let us become
the Unification Movement
which becomes a foundation
that is able to represent
the brilliant sunlight of heaven,

and which goes forth
considering it happiness,
even if we become
the foundation stones
which lay a bridge
while seeking that light,
and having the grief
of thousands of years of history.

We have humbly prayed all these things
in the holy name of the True Parents. Amen.