Please Establish Us As Children Of Whom You Can Be Proud

Father!
We earnestly hope and desire
that you will allow us
to become children
who reveal our terribly petty,
base selves in front
of your broad, noble,
internal character
and eagerly long for the touch
of your compassion and mercy.

Father,
you are the subject of all capabilities!
You are the prime mover of all life!
You are the origin of heart and love!

As real beings in front of you,
we entrust our whole selves to you
from the position
of being like branches or leaves.
If you are sorrowful,
then we will also have to be sorrowful,
and if you are happy,
then we will also have to be happy,
and if you work quickly,
then we will also have to work quickly.

We earnestly hope and desire
that you will allow us
to become your sons and daughters
who deal with
our entire living environment
together with you in this way.

When we reveal ourselves
before your internal character,
we wonder whether we are
the kinds of sons and daughters
for whom you hoped,

whether you can relate happily to us,
and personally come
and whisper directions to us
about the path we should go.

In order to become
those kinds of sons and daughters,
more than anyone else
we must fulfill
the duty of filial piety
and the duty of loyalty
in relation to you,
and we must be able
to offer even our lives to you.

Since we know that we
cannot remain connected
to the will on the stage of life
if we are not able
to have a relationship
as your sons,
please melt our minds
which are like sticks and stones
and let them resemble your mind.

We earnestly hope and pray
that you will allow us
to establish a relationship
where your situation
and our situations meet,
and we can be absorbed into you.

It will not do to remain
not being able to help
lamenting our fleeting lives
together with the flow of time.

With hope,
determining a hope-filled tomorrow,
taking authority as your sons,
we will have to greet
a day of joy,
a day of rejoicing
and a day of pride.

We who know the will
know your capacity
and know through experience
how amazing you are,
and we know
that we must stand in a position
with dignity and authority
as the victors of tomorrow,
as the builders of today,
as the victors of history.

To do that,
we must not be pitiful people
who always lament over themselves
and cannot put themselves forward.
Please allow us to become
your sons and daughters
who know how to determine ourselves.

Now please allow our minds
to be able to give you joy.
And please allow our bodies
to be the way you want them.

Please allow us
to be able to offer eternally
before you our bodies
to become living altars of victory
and our minds
to become living sacrifices of victory.

Then, please allow us
to become the sons and daughters
you are not ashamed to put forth
before all things of creation
and about whom you can say proudly
that this is the sacrifice
you have been looking for,
and these are the beings of hope
you have wanted to meet.

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