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Father! Please Bear With Our Unworthiness

Father!
Since many members are thirsting for life
and have gathered here before this altar,
please allow them to represent your glory;

and representing the altar of joy
please let them know
your deliberations and dilemmas;
and please allow them to be able
to experience your heart.

We know that you are in a position
where you cannot help
but believe in these insignificant beings
as you relate to them,

and we know that you are in a position
where you cannot help
but carry out your works through them.

Even though we know that up until today
heaven has been in a position
where it must believe us,
believe in and establish us,
we ask you, Father,
to please bear with our faults of the past
which made you unable to believe in us.

We humans beings have not been able
to fulfill our responsibility
to become people you can trust,
so Father,
we earnestly hope and desire
that you will bear with us at this time.

Please allow us to become
those who believe you and trust you,
and can give up our lives for you,
and can honestly offer our daily lives to you.
My beloved father,
we earnestly hope and desire
that you can take us
as sacrifices proper for you to accept.

Oh, Father!
Since you have called us
who are so unworthy
from among so many people,
please accept us and embrace us
with your compassionate love.

We offer our minds and bodies to you,
so please allow us
to experience your anxious mind,

and our beloved Father,
we earnestly hope and desire
that you will allow us
to become children
who are able to accept
and carry out your desire.

Your heartbreaking situation
formed throughout six thousand years
has continued until today,
and when we consider
your history of lamentation
which has continued until today,
and consider that today,
we ourselves are the very source
of your lamentations,
we ask you to please bear with us.

Please make us
into the realizations of the life
and the idea you desired,
and we earnestly hope and desire
that you will make us into roots of life
which can give you joy.

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

May 23, 1956