Please Allow Us To Go Forth With Childlike Hearts

Father of Mercy!
Please let this place become a sanctuary
where we become one with your mind.

Please allow it to become a holy place
where only you can take dominion
and we can be close to your heart,
be moved to tears by your situation,
and be in harmony with your hope.

Please remove
all the humanistic private things.
Born as descendents of the fall,
we have used masks as we saw fit
and have had ideologies
on which we insisted.
Please eliminate all these conditions
which appear before you.

We earnestly hope and desire
that you will allow us
to have humble hearts like children,
and that in our minds
we will have hearts
that endlessly long for
and continually adore you
like hungry babies
long for their mother's milk,

and that our hearts can harmonize
like that and be absorbed
and penetrate deep into your heart.

We know clearly
that the appearance we give
is miserable and pitiful,
like children
who have lost their parents.

Please let a moving,
howling scream
explode out of our minds
towards our mother and father.

In order to kick away this environment
and to forget that our bodies
have been wounded,
we earnestly hope and desire, Father,
that you will allow us
to appear as those able
to testify ourselves
that we are your sons
who have hearts that are able
to be moved by our pathetic situation
of struggling and longing for our parents.
We earnestly hope and desire,
Father,
that you will allow us
to become your children
who long for the kind of relationship

where you see us looking like that,
and you rush to embrace us calling us,
"My son, my daughter,"
and you can hold our cheek
next to yours and embrace us tightly
while weeping.

We have come to this place
not to find some thing of this world;
we have conic longing
for a relationship
preordained by heaven
which will allow us
to remain together forever with you
who are so precious and exalted.

We have not come here
to put down the roots
of some personal feelings
and remain here;
we have come here
to pursue a relationship
of eternal roots
which cannot be pulled out
even if one tries,
and a relationship where we
cannot be separated from you
even if we try.

Since we have come
in order to move when you move,
and to become what is decided
when you decide,

we earnestly hope and desire, Father,
that you will please, please,
become the roots,
and that you will allow us
to become the trunks,
branches, and leaves.
Please allow us
to become your children
who will revive the world
and represent your power,
dynamic force and pulse.

No matter what anyone says,
we know that children
who are being embraced
by their father and mother
are fortunate people.

However savage
the surrounding environment may be,
no matter
whether their daily lives
are spent on dangerous, high peaks,
we know that children
who go to sleep
in their parents embrace
have hearts filled with peace.

Living in this evil world,
this chaotic world, this world
where the waves of death
are splashing up against us,
we are people
who cannot go to you
even if we want to,

but we have come before you
with ardor, longing for, yearning for,
adoring you at least for the moment
when we can be embraced by you.
Therefore, we earnestly hope and desire
that you will give us directions.

We have humbly offered this prayer
in the name of our True Parents. Amen.