Bring Me To Morning Consciousness

Aum Sairam

Oh Sai satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, so that we
may rejoice and be glad all our days.

The silent lifting of night to reveal the dawn brings another day to
life. Each new day brings with it the opportunity of a fresh start, and
yet, the greeting of a new day is not always felt as a fresh start, a
delight, a new possibility. There are mornings that leave us wanting to
stay in the slumber of night because we must face an onerous task, or
meet with someone with whom we are at odds, or be reminded of a memory
that is too painful to bear, or remember the horrible situation we have
gotten ourselves into. Not every morning shines before us with the
brightness of potentiality. On those mornings the sun feels like an
unwelcome guest, and we long to have the darkness of oblivion close
over us again.

We would like most of all, we think, to have our situation altered so
that we wouldn't have to face what stands impermeable before us, but
changing our situation would be only a temporary release until some
other nasty circumstance presented itself. Only love - knowing we are
loved - knowing that the heart of heaven has not deserted us can give
us any sense of peace and joy on those mornings. It is only steadfast
love that is able to keep us steady in the midst of the days of glory
and the days of sorrow. When we want only to pull the covers back up
over us so that we don't have to face another day, or when we want to
throw off the covers to greet with excitement another day, it will
always be the love of God that remains unchanged and unchanging.

Oh Sai, when my heart is heavy or when my heart is light, let your love
be the first thing that brings me to morning consciousness.

Allah Malik