Please Allow Us To Consider On Our Own The Situation With Which We Are Faced

Father!
This morning
a lonely group
has gathered before you.

We must consider on our own
the kind of situation we are in.

We need to realize clearly
through whom
we have come here at this time
and in order to form
what kind of relationship
we have come to this place.

However evil the world may be,
and however filthy the world may be,
we must examine completely on our own
the position we are in,
and we must determine
our relationship with you, Father,
and in the course of our lives
establish a relationship with you
which cannot be forgotten.

We must know that
if there is such a person,
the relationship that person forms
is greater and more precious
than anything else in the world.

Our longing for our Father
is soaring up out of our hearts
adoring hearts
longing for heaven
of their own accord;
these are the driving forces
that can go against the flow of history.

Please allow us to know
that these shields of victory
can trample the waves of death
and stand over them.

We must become
those people of true love
who know how to feel
how precious the people are
who can live
as substantial testimonies
praising you
with their minds and bodies.

Now we must analyze ourselves
in detail,
and think about
for whom our faces exist.

We must think about
what our eyes are seeing
what our ears are hearing,

for which tastes and smells
our mouths and noses exist,

and for which acts of service
our hands and feet exist.

Please allow us
to completely realize
that even though
we should have been those
whose entire being
could become truly one with heaven
and long for you, Father,
and attend you, Father,
and be those who were loyal to you,

we are those who must grieve
from a position of anguish
that we have not had
even one moment of our minds
communicating with you and love.

We, who say we live on this earth,
live in a realm of life
limited to seventy, eighty years
or at most a hundred years,
and then we are buried in the earth.

No matter how good we might look
while on the earth, we must realize
that we cannot bring about
any results by ourselves,

and we must realize
how meaningless is preparing
a living environment
only with accomplishments
on the earth.

We must clearly know
that our birth and life
and our four limbs
and hundreds of body parts
all exist due to you, Father.

We must understand
how very precious we are
when we depend only on heaven,
and take responsibility ourselves
even when there are difficulties,
and with a desperate attitude
follow your will, pushing our way
through a great diversity of difficulties
and seek to relieve your grief.

We must become those who know
how to think of our relationship with you
when we are in sorrow in such a position,
and we must become those
who are able to be grateful to you
when we are happy.

We must become true people
who desperately weep
and proclaim so that
all of heaven and earth
can be moved that you exist,
our living Father,
who has been taking
on all the difficulties
and going forth being driven out
again and again
in our stead throughout history.

And at this moment as well
you are not resting,
but in order to save us
you are searching for
the standard of goodness.

But each time we feel
that no one has been able
to experience that position,
we want to receive your grace, Father,
and we long to be able
to live a life of grace
within you and win your confidence.

Father,
we who are like
that need a relationship with you,
and need to be governed by you.

Therefore, please allow
only the glory of your life
to rise up from the depths
of our hearts.

We pray in the name
of the True Parents. Amen.