Please Allow Us To Have Minds That Long For You, Father

Father!
We must become children.
We must become children
who insist to you
that we are hungry
when we are hungry.

Children thirst to adore their mothers.
Children are simple and innocent.

The more they are raised,
the more they are brought up
and gently embraced,
the more they grow
to follow their parents' standard.

Father!
Please repeatedly remember
your children who are gathered here.

If they who have come from
so many diverse situations
open their hearts
about those situations,
we know that you will not be able
to help being moved.

Therefore, please allow us
to open our hearts,
and to have hearts that longing for you
like hungry babes
longing for their mothers' milk.

Who will be the teacher here?
These people do not want
the words of man.

Until now they have heard
many words spoken,
and they have attended many churches,
and they have met many people,

but the nectar of life
was not among them.
Because the milk of life
was not there,
their minds have run dry.

With nothing to depend on
in their exhausted state,
they are in a miserable position
like a wasteland.

Therefore, Father,
please gather them together.
Each one must put aside
his own situation,
and there must arise
a work of intertwined lives
wriggling for re-creation
centered on relationships of life
and words of life that are centered
on your situation, Father.

I have not been able to prepare myself
to bring myself before you, Father.

But I offer everything I have
and am before you,
and I must find my "self"
which begins with you.

I must have the attitude of mind
that seeks to begin from you.
Since I must possess
the true appearance
that begins with you,
I earnestly hope and desire
that you will be with me personally.

Since they have come with minds
that have been grieving for a week,
Father,
please comfort them.
I earnestly ask
that you will please apply medicine
on their wounds,
spreading salve over them
and embrace them with love.

And then for these lonely,
miserable, shabby people,
please allow a place in your home
where they can change clothes and rest.

How much you must look forward
to people seeking you on their own
with the nourishment
of overflowing love.

These people are also looking forward
to such a position,
so we earnestly hope and desire
that you will allow it.

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