Father! Please Take Pity On Us

Oh Father!
Please take pity on us.
Without your grace
we are pitiful people
who can do nothing but die.

Father,
we earnestly hope and desire
that you will not cast us aside
and leave us,
but will embrace us
in your bosom of mighty love.

Until now your sons and daughters
who have been following
have not thought
this path of struggle was difficult;

but if it were not for your love,
we could only have wandered,
so please take pity on us.

And please embrace us
in your mighty love
and please let us be able
to experience the grace of glory
which you permit to us.

We know that everything
centered on humankind
has an end,
but every act centered on you
continues forever, Father.

Therefore,
we earnestly hope and desire, Father,
that you will remove everything
centered on humankind
and allow only things
centered on you alone
to appear out of the gardens
of our hearts.

The more our earnest minds
search for you, Father,
and the more we long
for your internal nature
and as we desire more
to go closer to your mind,
there are many times
when we forget the fact
that your great love is here
among us without our knowing it.

Please do not allow us
to forget the fact
that you are always
together with us,
to say nothing of
when we are busy
or in a hurry.

And we earnestly hope and desire,
Father,
that you will not allow us
to forget the fact
that you are always
living together with us.

Father! Please look upon us
with compassion.

Please take responsibility
for our lives
and take responsibility
for our hope.

If you would grant your hope to us,
please grant us the strength
to be able to fight
together with you until we make
that garden of hope our own.

And we hope and desire,
beloved Father,
that you would protect us
so that we do not become exhausted
in the battle with the enemy.

Since our hands and feet
have been wounded
while we made our way
through the world of death,

at this time
we earnestly hope and desire,
Father,
that you will join hands with us
and embrace us.

Because we know
that if you say you do not know us
there would be no one more wretched
than we are, Father,
we earnestly hope and desire
that you will please hold
and comfort us.

If it were not your command,
we would not have been able
to give up even our lives;
but we have followed the command
you have given and gone forth
because it is called a true path.
"Therefore, Father,
we earnestly hope and desire
that you will not cast us away
but rather embrace us at this time.

Father!
Please look upon us with compassion.

Please allow us
to feel to our very bones
that if it is not you,
nothing will be accomplished,
and if it is not your will,
it will not be accomplished,
and if it is not your work,
it will not be accomplished.

We earnestly hope and desire
that you will allow us
to keep in our lives
the work that you left,
the will that you left,
and the hope that you left,
and that you will allow us
to fight to the end,
and to appear
as your high-spirited
sons and daughters.

We have humbly prayed all these things
in the name of the Lord. Amen.