Please Let Us Know The Time Of Our Life

Until now for Unification Church members
the time has come near;
but it worries me greatly,
and I cannot help but be skeptical
about how many people know
that the time is coming.

The time passes as the time,
but we know that nothing will work today
if people are the same
as they were in the past.

We know that when spring comes
as the time to plant seeds,
if the seeds are planted,
the shoots will sprout,
and when summer comes,
the shoots will grow,
and when fall comes,
they will bear fruit,
and just before winter comes
there is a time to harvest.

When we see one living being
going through the course of its life
according to the laws
of natural phenomena like this,

if there is a person
who in his lifetime
is greeting the spring season
of his life of faith,
please allow him
to also greet the summer season.

In the summer season
it is not the luxuriantly growing leaf
that is good;
please allow us to understand
how precious the stem
is which allowed it to grow.

We know that this stem,
as a stem I alone can possess,
brings flowers into bloom
and bears fruit,
and if it is a yearly plant,
that fruit brings the combined results
of the value of the whole year.
We must understand
that a life of faith has times
like that as well.

Please let us know
that throughout our lives
in relation to our course
of knowing the will,
one time is the spring season,
one time is the summer season.
one time is the fall season,
and one time is the harvest season.

When we reach the harvest season
centered on the will,
we must offer everything
and give our full devotion
and bring in the harvest.

And if we do not claim
the things we harvest as our own,
but give them to you
and then receive them back as ours,
we form a relationship with you,
and all things can belong to us.

Because we know that being able
to have a relationship has value,

we who are going the course of restoration
should not first have all things as our own;
rather, everything must be yours, Father.

We who are in the position
of having received your call
and are following must clearly understand
that preparing our own personality
and life does not come first;
we must prepare for your personality
and your life first.

More than any thing else,
please do not let us lose the battle
through lives of a day;
and we earnestly hope and desire
that you will bless us, Father,
not to lose in relation to the battle
through our lives of a month.

May all things be together
with the standard of your victory,
and we earnestly ask you to guide us
to become sons and daughters
whose minds will always rush
valiantly and boldly in that direction
and be there at the place
of your final victory.

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