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Merry Christmas!

From the first of June, 2018, I started writing Good Morning messages in the form of poems (Please read: ‘Good Morning Message #1‘).

The last such message was:’Good Morning Message #180‘.

Good morning Friends,

If someone asks: ‘How’s Christmas to be celebrated?’
You may respond, ‘With carols, wine and cake.’
After all, for one full year you have waited,
To enjoy the Christmas holidays and the break.
But, there is something still amiss,
Which you can’t totally dismiss.

If Christmas was all about wine and cake only,
Without assimilating some qualities of Christ;
Then you have made Him, indeed, very lonely,
In vein, His life for you and me, was sacrificed.
Christmas is as much about emulating Christ,
As it is about celebrating Christ.

If someone, because of us, can’t obtain,
Some flicker of Faith, Hope and Love;
If someone close continues to suffer in pain,
There is no point to rejoice in Christ above.
Christmas without kindness in your heart,
Shall make all celebration fall apart.

So lets’s at least one quality of Christ assimilate,
And spread His message through our deeds;
Then only we have a right to truly celebrate,
Someone who lived and died for our needs.
Merry Christmas my dear friends,
Let’s start the day by making amends.

Let Christ be born in our hearts too!

Destiny plays a huge role in making men…

From the first of June, 2018, I started writing Good Morning messages in the form of poems (Please read: ‘Good Morning Message #1‘).

The last such message was:’Good Morning Message #179‘.

Good morning Friends,

Destiny plays a huge role in making men,
Historically, this has been proved time and again.
However, men of pluck,
Do change their luck,
And actually decide ‘what’, ‘where’ and ‘when’.

They are never victims of their fate,
They don’t, for events to turn, wait.
“Ah, it is already for us writ”,
They never to this philosophy submit,
Life is never, for them, a meek stalemate.

The world is full of many a theory,
Some make us happy, some make us dreary.
Everything is our perception,
And here there is no exception,
So, why not choose one that is cheery?

Mere puppets, then you realise, you’re not,
As sometimes, in despair, you’d have thought.
God wants you to choose,
And not your destiny abuse,
In the galaxy of stars, you can select your own spot.

….but there are men who are not prey to Destiny.

Want to be the maker of a new world?

From the first of June, 2018, I started writing Good Morning messages in the form of poems (Please read: ‘Good Morning Message #1‘).

The last such message was:’Good Morning Message #178‘.

Good morning Friends,

If someone were to ask you,
To make a new world tomorrow,
Will you choose a totally happy world,
Such that there is no sorrow?

Will you make everyone rich,
So that there is nowhere a poor?
Will you want everyone to be a dreamer,
Or choose everyone to be a doer?

Are you going to make everything beautiful,
Such that ugliness is never to be found?
Will there be no pauper in the world,
And everyone will be crowned?

No man would ever shed tears,
Everyone would have on face a smile;
No anger, no cruelty, no jealousy,
Will that be your new world’s style?

To have peace all around,
To have nowhere any signs of war;
To find love everywhere you look,
Even if you look really very far.

Lo, the world that you want to make,
Doesn’t have to made new;
All the ingredients that we need for it,
Can be found in this world too.

Only we need a true intent,
To make our wishes come true;
Our world is totally in our hands,
It is really up to me and you.

Value the world you are born into,
And start spreading love and peace,
And very soon you’re bound to realise,
What God made is already a masterpiece.

Each one of us is thus responsible,
To make this world a happy place;
All that we are required to do,
Is to stop the current rat – race.

…sure; there is nothing wrong with this one too.

Negative emotions don’t harm others as much….

From the first of June, 2018, I started writing Good Morning messages in the form of poems (Please read: ‘Good Morning Message #1‘).

The last such message was:’Good Morning Message #177‘.

Good morning Friends

We intend negative emotions to harm other men,
Anger, Jealousy, Envy, Hatred, and Cruelty,
But it has been proved time and again,
That these cause us more harm and anxiety.
You don’t punish people that you hate,
You actually invite for yourself ill fate.

Historically, no one has ever prospered,
By harbouring these kind of negative emotions,
People who have by the sword conquered,
Have also been victims of similar notions.
You don’t punish people that you hate,
You actually invite for yourself ill fate.

There is only one way to avoid their ill effect,
It is to replace these with forgiveness and love;
Rather than having your own life wrecked,
Try not being a weak hawk but a powerful dove.
You don’t punish people that you hate,
You actually invite for yourself ill fate.

If you love yourself you would never hate,
You’d never be angry, envious and jealous,
Your perceived hurt would not ever translate,
Into for seeking self-defeating revenge zealous.
You don’t punish people that you hate,
You actually invite for yourself ill fate.

….as they make your own life miserable.

If your road is tough….

From the first of June, 2018, I started writing Good Morning messages in the form of poems (Please read: ‘Good Morning Message #1‘).

The last such message was:’Good Morning Message #176‘.

Good morning Friends

If the road that you’re on appears to be tough,
Such that you are about to give up;
Remember that beauty is just beyond the rough,
And soon it would be a time to live up.
Often the most beautiful destinations,
Are just beyond the worst frustrations.

Indeed, the way of God’s world is such,
That He compensates for when you feel deprived;
One should be thankful for His benign touch,
That in everything He gives reason to be satisfied.
You marvel, eg, at the other abilities of the blind,
And then you realise God is always kind.

When and if God puts you through a trial,
He always gives you the strength to go through;
So, at the end of it, you can still have a smile,
And discover your inner self that is so true.
You can also find out if your faith is weak,
That disintegrates when things look bleak.

So, cheer up when times appear to be hard,
These are harbingers of good times ahead;
The baby along with the bathwater don’t discard,
There is nothing to fear, nothing to dread.
God will never leave you fighting alone,
You are His child, He would never disown.

….the destination would be most beautiful.

Say when….

From the first of June, 2018, I started writing Good Morning messages in the form of poems (Please read: ‘Good Morning Message #1‘).

The last such message was:’Good Morning Message #175‘.

Good morning Friends

We often hear people utter ‘Say when’,
When offering someone drink or food;
The receiver satiated says “enough” and then,
The offer is allowed to gracefully conclude.
But for life’s other things we remain gruff,
Even if we have had more than enough?

Is it true that when God is serving,
We often succumb to the dictates of greed?
Or do we really feel no one is observing,
When we expect far more than our need?
When would we learn to stay “stop”,
When God is filling our glass to the top?

When you say “enough” you become rich,
Not just materially but also in your soul;
You learn not to display the eternal itch,
Of always to be seen with a begging bowl.
You then have adequate to also give,
And God knows you have learnt to live.

Say when before your glass is full to the brim,
Say when before it actually over flows;
Remember you don’t have it to bathe and swim,
You don’t have to be covered from head to toes.
Think of those who actually have much less,
But the gift of ‘enough’ who proudly possess.

…..you’ve had enough.

Of all the precious things that God gave us….

From the first of June, 2018, I started writing Good Morning messages in the form of poems (Please read: ‘Good Morning Message #1‘).

The last such message was:’Good Morning Message #174‘.

Good morning Friends

Don’t give a man food and drink for days,
Chances are, with life, he still can cope;
But, he’d certainly be found in a daze,
If you remove from his life all hope.
No one can live without love and hope,
Life can’t be like walking a tightrope.

No matter how bad can be one’s situation,
God gave one hope to see the silver lining;
It takes away the sting from all frustration,
Suddenly, in rain, you can see the sun shining.
No one can live without love and hope,
Life can’t be like walking a tightrope.

Many of us may not be, of it, totally aware,
But ‘Hope’ comes to us directly from God;
Life isn’t just for everyone, life is never fair,
But His divine justice we always applaud.
No one can live without love and hope,
Life can’t be like walking a tightrope.

Thank you, God, for giving us a ray of light,
When things become for us very very dark;
Suddenly, Hope makes everything seem alright,
Suddenly, in the dullness, we see a spark.
No one can live without love and hope,
Life can’t be like walking a tightrope.

…..the most precious are Life, Love and Hope.

Even though all virtues are relative….

From the first of June, 2018, I started writing Good Morning messages in the form of poems (Please read: ‘Good Morning Message #1‘).

The last such message was:’Good Morning Message #173‘.

Good morning Friends

Even though all virtues on earth are relative,
And there is no virtue that is really absolute,
We don’t need to consider this in the negative,
But think of our own stance in their pursuit.
Others will always be less or more happy than us,
But our being dependent on them is superfluous.

If at all we should stoop to compare,
It’d do us good to think of those who have less;
We should consider God gave us our rightful share,
What they have less, we might have in excess.
Being sad because they appear to have more,
Is to deliberately, our own blessings, ignore.

You can have, your virtue, of others, independent,
And let it not be dependent upon their reaction;
For example, your gentlemanliness can be dependent,
If you think of it always as a business transaction.
You can be gentlemanly to everyone around,
Irrespective of whether some return is to be found.

It is the same with Love, Courage, Honesty and Truth,
You can have these for everyone and in each situation,
Or else, you can try ‘an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth’,
And spend all your time in such silly calculation.
Be content with what you yourself possess,
Don’t ever think whether it is more or less.

….you can have yours independent of others.

When you think no one is watching….

From the first of June, 2018, I started writing Good Morning messages in the form of poems (Please read: ‘Good Morning Message #1‘).

The last such message was:’Good Morning Message #172‘.

Good morning Friends

When you think no one is watching you,
And you’re tempted to do something wrong;
There is someone who has the complete view,
It is there with you everywhere and lifelong.
It never ever goes to sleep,
And lo, you pay for its upkeep.

It is neither your enemy nor your friend,
It has longer lasting memory than anyone;
You can’t help listening to it in the end,
It has all the record of what you’ve done.
Finally when it looks you in the eye,
There is nothing that you can ever deny.

No one has ever been able to conquer over it,
Though people have tried to keep it under control;
In the end, everyone, at its feet would submit,
It is even the keeper of your heart and soul.
There is no way it can be deceived,
What you’ve done can’t be retrieved.

No security system that Man could ever devise,
Comes close to this fool-proof system of God;
How it works has always been a surprise,
Its findings and analysis are never flawed.
Do you still feel it can be cheated?
Well, you must be very conceited.

…..it keeps a record of everything you do.

When you are judgmental of people….

From the first of June, 2018, I started writing Good Morning messages in the form of poems (Please read: ‘Good Morning Message #1‘).

The last such message was:’Good Morning Message #171‘.

Good morning Friends

When you are, of the people, judgmental,
It is, if you care to consider, detrimental,
To maintaining good relations;
Without considering facts, it is accidental,
And may turn be an error monumental,
That shakes friendship’s foundations.

Being judgmental is merely to surmise,
That people are someone else in disguise,
And have oblique intentions;
Additionally, it shows how you despise,
Rather than understand and empathise,
Of their situation, all the dimensions.

Perceptions and judgments are tricks of the mind,
As later, when we have facts, we can find,
And then form a somewhat balanced view;
But, it certainly is nothing less than being unkind,
When you deliberately decide to be blind,
To the motives of a person and decide to misconstrue.

Lastly, lets talk about something we call fact,
We often sound as if we know it very exact,
But we have no knowledge of its interpretations;
It, therefore, pays not to very quickly react,
Such that your stand you cannot retract,
Whilst arriving at your biased allegations.

…..you are anything but a good judge.

How well and important God made each part of Man….

From the first of June, 2018, I started writing Good Morning messages in the form of poems (Please read: ‘Good Morning Message #1‘).

The last such message was:’Good Morning Message #170‘.

Good morning Friends

We keep joking about how imperfect is God’s Creation,
We particularly are critical about Man’s body,
It comes in for so much of our condemnation,
We joke that whilst creating Man His work was shoddy.
Only when something comes apart,
We realise the importance of each part.

Suddenly, what looked insignificant is now valued,
We realise its importance to the whole,
To think it was always with us but undervalued,
In its absence or its malfunction only we understand its role.
Only when something comes apart,
We realise the importance of each part.

God has done, we realise later, something great for us,
He made us as we are and left us to find our worth;
Some of us only end up making a lot of fuss,
Others, gradually, the importance of Life unearth.
Only when something comes apart,
We realise the importance of each part.

Life is truly worth living the way God has made,
We should be grateful to Him for having made it so;
We shouldn’t ever in our minds importance of it degrade,
Even when we are passing through Life’s low.
Only when something comes apart,
We realise the importance of each part.

…..We realise it only when it stops functioning.

Gym or walks?*….

From the first of June, 2018, I started writing Good Morning messages in the form of poems (Please read: ‘Good Morning Message #1‘).

Good morning Friends

The last such message was:’Good Morning Message #169‘.

Some like to go to gym, some like to go for walks,
I love the latter even though I am not orthodox.
The feel of the open space,
Puts spring in my pace,
Gym gives me the feel of being inside a box.

Other than cold machines there is nothing to see in a gym,
Whereas outdoors you can exercise both your soul and limb;
You see trees and flowers,
You can even walk in the showers,
The sight of birds in the sky fills your heart to the brim.

When you walk you watch the sunset or the sunrise,
You can look at green lands and the blueness of the skies,
You connect to Nature and God,
And sometimes you are overawed,
When you see something that is a pleasant surprise.

During walks everyday you experience something new,
Sometimes, around you, you can admire the view,
At others you look within,
And break into a grin,
When you discover the real person that is you.

……You see so many things during walks that you can never see in a gym.

*Please read: ‘Walk Or Gym? I Like It In The Open‘

Even more important than a clean house….

From the first of June, 2018, I started writing Good Morning messages in the form of poems (Please read: ‘Good Morning Message #1‘).

The last such message was:’Good Morning Message #168‘.

Good morning Friends

Even more important than a house that is clean,
Is to have a clean and uncluttered mind;
If it has to have junk of all the places it has seen,
When you want to, things it won’t be able to find.
God has given us ability to remember and forget,
Use each one not as a liability but as an asset.

Keeping your house in order is a lesser skill,
Than keeping the mind always fit and fine;
The first one with dust and grime can fill,
The latter often to bad memories can resign.
God has given us ability to remember and forget,
Use each one not as a liability but as an asset.

Many a times we swear at our mind for forgetting,
We give vent to enormous anger and frustration,
We find it like a betrayal of mind and upsetting,
And think that we have one that lacks concentration.
God has given us ability to remember and forget,
Use each one not as a liability but as an asset.

One useful trick to train mind to remember and forget,
Is to keep it functioning distinct from the heart;
Let the former be not of the latter a subset,
Let it follow not of the heart but its own flow-chart.
God has given us ability to remember and forget,
Use each one not as a liability but as an asset.

….is to have a clean and uncluttered mind.

Always love and respect your life-partner….

From the first of June, 2018, I started writing Good Morning messages in the form of poems (Please read: ‘Good Morning Message #1‘).

The last such message was:’Good Morning Message #167‘.

Good morning Friends

When you share your life with someone you love the most,
The angels gather around you and raise a toast,
The gods gaze from the sky above,
And look benignly at your love,
Are you in paradise you ask; the answer is yes, almost.

For every person God has already decided on one,
Who would be there for him or her in the long run,
That person you’d eventually find,
Know ye that gods are always kind,
At that time, life for you would have just begun.

So, always love this person as God’s gift to you,
Remember, God knew it even before you knew.
Life is short and passing,
Don’t look down on this blessing,
Do everything you can to let God’s wish come true.

Love is the basis of all human life on earth,
In this both man and woman realise their true worth.
So if love is gone,
And battle lines are drawn,
You’ve wasted a life that could’ve been full of mirth.

…..it has been ordained by God.

Don’t be anyone other than yourself….

From the first of June, 2018, I started writing Good Morning messages in the form of poems (Please read: ‘Good Morning Message #1‘).

The last such message was: ‘Good Morning Message #166′.

Good morning Friends,

God made you a very unique person,
He gave you something He didn’t give anyone;
So, by imitating, don’t let things worsen,
Just be yourself, the only one under the sun.
Imitation, my friend, is suicide,
Be yourself, be special, be dignified.

It is okay to have someone you admire,
It is alright even to acquire new talent and skill;
Yes, your heroes and role models may inspire,
But, copying someone is certainly going downhill.
Imitation, my friend, is suicide,
Be yourself, be special, be dignified.

Some people have more of something, some have less,
You have to discover what you are good at;
Your weaknesses shouldn’t cause you stress,
You too have something for which they’d raise their hat.
Imitation, my friend, is suicide,
Be yourself, be special, be dignified.

Before loving others, love yourself, friend,
And be comfortable with who you really are;
Don’t ever, to be someone else, pretend,
Imagine yourself as the brightest star.
Imitation, my friend, is suicide,
Be yourself, be special, be dignified.

Be proud of God’s gift to you.