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Please Let Us Offer Ourselves Entirely As Offerings of Indemnity

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Because we have come to know that this is a way we cannot go without tears, we have come to know that we cannot relate to the Will without shedding tears, and we cannot call out to you without tears.

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Father! We earnestly hope and desire that you will not let us forget even in our dreams to become sons and daughters who are able to weep while feeling that our Father who is suffering is to be pitied, when we become more and more frustrated while looking at the way of the Will We have come to know that the course of restoration through indemnity is a way of suffering. Because we have come to know that this is a way we cannot go without tears, we have come to know that we cannot relate to the Will without shedding tears, and we cannot call out to you without tears.

We have come to know that if this nation and people were destroyed, you are a Father who would have more sorrow than all the sorrow of this nation and these people, and if this world were destroyed, you are a Father who would have more sorrow than the sorrow of the nations of this world.

Therefore, we have come to know that we would not be able to immediately remove your sorrow, even if that nation prospered again and that world prospered again.

Therefore, we have come to know that you are a being who is to be pitied, and you are a being who is carrying the cross among crosses. We earnestly hope and desire that in the Unification Movement you will let there be many sons and daughters who know that we, who have not established a position to stand in front of our enemies, are beings who lack filial piety, and it is unfortunate that we are not carrying a cross, while attending you as our Father who is like that.

We know that the tradition of the Unification Movement is the tradition that you have asserted on earth through the course of history. We have determined that we will follow you as though offering our lives for a day and that we will not mind even a way of many sufferings in order to establish this tradition. But we still do not possess the appearance or the form; therefore, please pardon that we have appeared before you once again.

It is natural that we are ashamed of our inadequacy, but the more we think that if due to us these people is destroyed and the world is destroyed, you will have to take the immense responsibility, we come to realize that you are an inexpressibly pitiable being. We, who cause you reason for concern, deserve to the millions of times, but now we must become supports for your Will by becoming offerings.

And then we must stand in a position of being able to shout out that we are those of your children who can fathom your mind. We earnestly hope that you will let us come to know that finding the way where we are able to offer ourselves entirely as offerings of indemnity in that kind of position is the way that the unification children must go and it is called the way of victory.

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

Amen.

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APA 7

Moon, S. M. (1970, June 21). Please Let Us Offer Ourselves Entirely As Offerings of Indemnity [Prayer]. True Parents Legacy Archive (J. Auror, Ed.). https://n2t.net/ark:/68749/let-us-offer-ourselves-entirely-offerings-of-indemnity

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Moon, Sun Myung. “Please Let Us Offer Ourselves Entirely As Offerings of Indemnity.” True Parents Legacy Archive, 21 Jun. 1970, https://n2t.net/ark:/68749/let-us-offer-ourselves-entirely-offerings-of-indemnity.

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Moon, Sun Myung. “Please Let Us Offer Ourselves Entirely As Offerings of Indemnity.” Prayer, June 21, 1970. True Parents Legacy Archive. https://n2t.net/ark:/68749/let-us-offer-ourselves-entirely-offerings-of-indemnity.

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@misc{moon1970,
  author = {Sun Myung Moon},
  title = {Please Let Us Offer Ourselves Entirely As Offerings of Indemnity},
  year = {1970},
  month = {jun},
  howpublished = {True Parents Legacy Archive},
  url = {https://n2t.net/ark:/68749/let-us-offer-ourselves-entirely-offerings-of-indemnity},
  note = {Prayer}
}
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Text bySun Myung Moon, Founder of the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity
TranslationWorking translation from the Korean. Official editions are reproduced verbatim.
Editorial scopeTexts are not abridged or paraphrased. Paragraph numbers are stable for citation. Report an error