When It Rains...

It's one of those days when I wake up in love with the world.

Apparently it rained all night, so everything has a fresh, washed look. The air is still damp, the sky clear, the trees green and not brown for a change, te sun is being sane, and what's more, preperation for the psych exam on Saturday is actually on track!

I know, it cannot get better than this. But it can. Because come evening, and i shall be off shwimmen, and the rush i usually get from doing my 20 laps will be coupled with the crazy magic of the climate, and then i get to study MORE psycho.

I tell you, some lucky buggers have all the fun, and i think i am one of them.

So anyway, coming to the point. Everyone should be aware that we are nearing March 21, which besides being pagan new year is also Spring Equinox, the day that is supposed to usher spring in. And with spring, freshness and newness and revival (i think God misread his calendar last night or something). Now last year around this time i read this piece in Bombay Times by Cyrus Merchant, a God fan, that was meant to lead up to March 21. I found this article so beautiful, so meant-for-me, and maybe so meant-for-anyone-who-reads it, that i actually cut it out and saved it in one of my books. But even I had no idea that it would stay with me for an entire year. So i decided that since i have it and since the ocassion has only come back, other ppl should also read this gem of a piece. And what better day to do it than today. Read it less for the conditions of worth and more for a taste of what 'faith' can really be. So here goes.

HIS HIGHEST WISH

21st March is the New Year for the entire universe, a date so spiritual it is beyond your understanding, suffice for me to say that the soul of the universe is reborn on this day and therefore everything isd made new, you and your Life included.

But this date can be a success in your Life only if the day March 20th God approves of all that you are, all that your life is. I am deliberately writing this column early and having it published early so that you have God-given time to adhere to it and abide by it.

If only you have seen what I have seen, you will know that there is nothing to Life but fearing God and loving God. And living from what God gives, what God blesses, what God approves of for us. Above us is Him, at the centre of us is Him, and if our Life does not flow from the middle of His palms then nothing will flow or last. You can do all you want, tug at it all you want, glue it, stick it, but id any area of your Life doesn't have God's approval of it, it will come apart.

For anything in yoyr Life to work, God's approval of it has to work. What God anoints, approves of, finds adorable for you - even if it is the most impossible thing - it will just click. When God smiles down on something for us, even if we defy it, run away from it, leave it, it will continue. All you need in Life is God's "YES".

With it, you don't need anything.

For this March 20th, go beyond your most heartfelt sorry and tell God you want nothing except what He wants. All His plans that you have ignored, thwarted, run away from, apologise. He will accept your apology the moment you accept His will henceforth. My whole life and writings have been towards this end, rather this beginning. May God God'd Highest Wish Be Fulfilled.

If you really want a safe, secure and lifelong peace from this March 20th, then today itself in your most sincere prayer tell God you are sorry, invite Him in your life, crown Him over your family, your most loved one, your work, your house, and over the smallest thing in your life. Look up. And ask Him to look down and one last time, forgive you.

Once you have a God anointed life then even if things are very bad God forbid, even if things aren't good with your family, your most loved one, then God is, believe it or not, 'duty-bound' to make everything alright. Imagine living in this sense of security, imagine living in this warm, podgy God blanket, imagine every day for the rest of your life, you have such fulfilment.

You can have it. Keep this column with you till March 20th, and start being happy, happy from today itself because God's Power, God's Peace and God's Purpose is at the head of your Life.

Once your Life is according to God's Highest Wish, you only have the responsibility of being happy. Doubt nothing, forget everything and live happily in the presence of a God who is happy.

This is my most important article in 11 years. So God, please may Your Highest Wish be fulfilled.