Make Joy your Job

Make it your job to feel joyful. During the moments following after I had worked hard, appropriate to my desires to go through the day well, it begins to be well. And what do I do with things going this well? I decide that I will make it my job to be joyful and feel joy.

One of my favorite ways is thinking of the Holy Mother Sarada, Her presence within me and Her Love moving through me. Perhaps this is the state that is important as one taken this birth - that is to remember yourself and not be lost in forgetfulness.

Experimenting with this remembrance, I figured there is nothing I could engage in constructively especially in the daily dance of human relationships, except when I remember God in me - there is nothing that happens otherwise atleast not constructively.

Even as I decided to be the stay-at-home mother, it doesn't make much of a difference in my children's lives if I had been a working outside mother - in that I wouldn't have engaged with the loving parts of them if I don't remember myself. And when I remember myself when connecting as in the moments of my engagement with them - then those are the moments that have been worth living in their presence.