Please Seek Us Reaching Out With Love

Greeting this holy day
we come before your being, Father,
with bowed heads.
Oh father of love,
father of compassion,
father of magnanimity,
please bear with us.

Our minds
want to resemble your mind,
and our bodies want to resemble
your external form.

We are not able to accomplish that
because we don't know how.
Therefore, please inform us
through our minds
and give us experience
through our bodies.
We earnestly hope to be able
to bow before you, Father,
as those who have taken the example
of your internal nature.

If it seems there are sons and daughters
who are not proper before your will,
please seek them out personally
and instruct them.

Our ears are dim,
and our eyes are dim.
We do not know
how to hear your words,
and we do not know
how to look upon you.
Please let us sense
in our minds and bodies

that having to make us hear
and having to make us see
is more sorrowful for you
than for us,
more heartbreaking for you
than for us,
and more frustrating for you
than for us.

You have beckoned to us
hundreds of millions of times,
but we did not know how to respond,

and you called out to us
tens of thousands of times,
but we did not know how to hear you.

Then how could we not be ashamed
to stand before you?
Even so, we hear your voice
calling us to come,
and even so we know that
you are beckoning and calling to us,
and we fall down on our knees.

We are the pitiful people
among the pitiful.
We believe that you know
that we are those
who more than anyone else
have no place to depend on.

Therefore,
even though we appear crude,
you will have to seek us out
and hold us,
reaching out with love.

Our eyes are dim
and our bodies wounded,
and even though
we are in a position
of not being able to know
the essence of life,

Father,
please embrace us personally
with love.
We earnestly hope and desire
that you will stop
our tired footsteps,
turn our minds
from dejection to joy,
and comfort us.

Even as sorrow is handed down,
we know it is
because this is a fallen world
that you are caused to feel sorrow.

Satan is blocking our path,
and because you know that
he is sweeping away the world
through the power of death,
you did not leave
the responsibility up to us,
but have taken on
the responsibility alone
and have gone forward
facing and fighting the enemy, Father.

The more our minds revere you
as that kind of father,
the more your mind
will want to forgive us
and forgive our faults.

We earnestly hope and desire,
Father,
that through that heart,
you will once again seek us out.

We regret having become sinners,
and we weep.
Our hearts are indignant hearts
and our tears are flowing,
and when with earnest hearts
our minds repent, we realize that
you have borne with us
for 6,000 years, Father,

and today at this time
also you seek to relate to us
with a heart of compassion.
Please knock on the doors
of our hearts as we weep.

Please remove
the thoughts and assertions
of all the ideologies
that have been stained by sin
until now.
And please let us sense your life
in our minds and bodies.

We earnestly hope and desire
that you will allow this
to be a time when we can
experience heaven's heart
of painstaking circumstances,
heaven's heart of love,
and heaven's grace of love
which we have not been able to feel,

and we can form
the kind of relationship
where you can call us
your sons and daughters.

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