Please Allow Us To Live Lives Of Gratitude

Father!
If we are sons
who know your devotion, Father,
even if we wake up
in the middle of the night,
we would not be able
to help bowing down to you
with embarrassed minds
which are not able to cover up
our shamefulness as sinners.

At the morning breakfast table,
please let us become people
who ask ourselves
what we're going to do
after we eat this rice,

and at the lunch table
please allow us to become
those who, in an ashamed manner,
feel remorse over the question
of what we have left unfinished
until now,

and at the dinner table,
please let us become those
who ask ourselves
whether we have spent the day well
and concluded it without lack.

Please allow us to become children
who start the day as yours,
Father,
and who question
whether up to this time
we have remained as yours,

and when we think about
how much concern you have for us,
Father,

with an empty body
which cannot leave anything
behind of this day
which we must spend
in a valuable way,
please let us think about
whether we have not spent the day
with a mind of the world,

and please let us become your children
who know how to go to bed
after repenting to you with tears
and with regretful hearts.

We must live grateful lives.

Even at the point of being beaten,
even at the point of vomiting blood,
we must live grateful lives.

Because many ancestors betrayed you
at that kind of point,

Father, we know
that we must fulfill completely
the duty of filial piety
among filial piety
and the duty of loyalty
among loyalty to you, Father,
who have come with a heart
filled with that kind of anguished,
historical grief.

Please let us understand here
that we cannot stand in such a position
with resentment and complaints.

Please allow us to become those
who fear that we might find ourselves
to be like that.

Please let us understand
that although we are pitiful
and weak people in the world,
there is no one more fearful
than such people.

Even if we are at a point
where our bodies are exhausted
to the extent
that we cannot hold on anymore,

we must think that you have longed for us,
overcoming and going
a path of suffering
more severe than this.

And when we discover the fact
that only by going
beyond this suffering
will we become sons who can comfort
your sorrowful past,

we must purify ourselves
as those who must go
and become sons
who offer ourselves completely
as sacrifices before you.

We have nothing more
than living in gratitude.
Even if the wife
given to one husband is inadequate,
because of being able
to serve throughout our lives,
we must be grateful
for having been given that wife.

And if our children
give me a life of the cross,
we will have to be grateful
for your having provided us
that kind of position.

And even if the environment
drives us into pits of despair
where we cannot control our lives,
no matter what condition that sets up,
we will become your sons
who can leave behind
a relationship of gratitude and collapse.

We earnestly hope that you will allow us
to become your people.

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