Please Allow Us To Walk The Path Of Life Together With You, Father

Father!
Through looking at the course of history
and through our own lives of faith,
we have come to clearly understand
that heaven is an eternal place.
But what determines
whether one can go into that heaven
is what a person has made an effort
to do on his own on earth
and the state of his heart.

As people who have come to know the will,
we worry about ourselves
that we might not be able
to walk the way we must for the will.

We are those who cannot help
but live day by day together
with heaven and yet cannot help
but live together with the earth.

But we know well
that through our hearts
which are like this,
you are seeking to appear
in our daily lives.

In order to do that,
we must realize the fact
that you are judging
the good and evil within us.

Following a lonely path of life like this,
those of us who are looking at that
and going forward cannot help
but admit that we are descendents of the fall
who are not able
to find any hope without you, Father.

For those of us who are like that,
only heaven is good,
and we know the truth
that it must be heaven
that becomes our everything.

Please allow this time
to become a time
of reflection and evaluation
of how rewarding and how truly
human are living together with heaven
and having the courage
to die together with heaven.

In the course of history,
those who left behind
the name "great person"
as a person of goodness,
and those who left behind
the name "saint"
as one individual in the world of men,
their names have remained in a holy way

because their purpose of life
was to live together with all humankind
and to live together with you, Father.
They did not become exhausted
along the path of life.
And in order to live
together with you and together with
all the people of the world,
we know that they walked a path
of limitless struggles
in order to tie the end
together with the beginning.

The many people who have come and gone
throughout the course of history did that,
but we, who have the name of
being sons and daughters of heaven,
who are shouldering the responsibility
of the providence of restoration
which must be completely resolved
in the history of today,
we ask you to allow us to know the fact
that what we must do is already determined.

Your having called us in this way
is not because we ourselves
are fit for the calling,

but you have called us
as beings of hope
through the course of
the 6,000 years of pioneering,
filled with so much grief
since the fall,
in order to establish
the concept of creation
which you were hoping for from
before the beginning of history.

When we realize
that we are such beings,
we cannot help
but feel again the loneliness
and misery of our father
with his heart
of grief-filled restoration.

Please prod us
because we have not been able
to become our real selves
who can straighten ourselves up
and call you our father,

and let us admit
that we have not been able
to lay the foundation of holy devotion
which allows us
to attend our heavenly parents.

In spite of the fact
that more than offering
anything of the world,
we ourselves
must become complete offerings
who are able to offer ourselves
as sacrifices to whatever you desire,
we cannot express how many times
we have forgotten this.

Father!
The external conditions
such as physical appearance
or any kind of worldly conditions
are not the problem.
Please allow us to be able
to walk the course of our lives
with earnest hearts
which want to struggle for heaven,
and want to witness to heaven
and want to live for heaven
from deep in our hearts.

Father!
Even if while living for you
it may sometimes seem
like we are in a dreary,
lonesome, lonely,
and deserted place,

we must realize
that when we are assessed by you,
we are considered
as belonging to you.

We earnestly desire
that you will allow us
to once again determine ourselves
to stand by our own volition
in the position of knowing
that this is the original path we must go,
and it is the original desire
which humankind should pursue.

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