Father! We Did Not Know In Time

Father!
You are the only one we can believe;
there is no one to depend on but you.

We know that there is no one but you
with whom to clear up matters
and form a relationship.

If we form a relationship with people,
we see that it will become nothing more
than an object of despair.

As we walk the path of persons of faith,
we have seen many times,
experienced many times,
and felt many times
the incessant fact of human history
that in the end our hearts
are pierced with arrows.

Our sorrow was not being hungry;
it was not standing in a position
of being persecuted unjustly
by the environment.

We did not know in advance
that what is more sorrowful
than that is losing our beloved father.

No matter how lacking a place may be,
if you are there it has everything.

Even if a place is in the center of hell,
if you are there
it can be transformed into heaven.

We know that there is no other place for us
to live or die than where you are, Father.

It is under you that we have happiness;
it is under you that we have hope;
and when we think that
it is under you that our existence has value,
in this way you are the prerequisite
of all our victories,
the prerequisite of happiness,
and we really,
really did not know in advance the fact
that it is you, Father,
who can be the decisive standard of value.

As for pursuing superior value,
we did not know in time
that before pursuing something external,
already deep in our minds
there is a standard
that can determine the content of value.

We thought that the source of happiness
was in some relative world on the other side;
therefore, we did not know in advance
that deep in our minds
a root is already connected there.

Now, Father,
if through the Unification Church
you are longing for us
to become sons and daughters
whom you can embrace as favored children
of new resurrected life,
we have realized that it will not do
unless we make efforts
in order for us to be able
to stand in such a position.

Therefore, we earnestly hope and pray
that we may become
your precious sons and daughters
who can obtain your compassion
by becoming gentle incarnations
who relate to your will humbly.

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