Love calmness as much as you love excitement! Calmness is not dullness. Excitement can be low-key. Excitement and calmness can go hand in hand. Let life stir you. Excitement can only be a blip on the field of life. Your life can stay simple. Let the little things thrill you.
Do not look so much for exterior excitement. Every morning there is the greatest show on Earth. The sun rises each day unlike any other sunrise in the history of the world. The same with sunset. And is not the display of the night sky beautiful? Are fireworks as impressive?
There is enough excitement available without paying money for more of it. Always there is a mountain or a plain or a tree or a flower or a street or a house to look at. Life is full of beauty to be thrilled with. Your life is full of beauty. Be enchanted with it. See with your heart.
There is the face of a loved one or a dog's tail wagging or something to find joy in. Yes, seek joy more than you seek excitement. And seek the giving of joy. There is no joy like that of giving joy. Let your face be lit up when someone gives you joy so that they may receive your joy as well. Who is the giver and who is the receiver anyway? Who can tell them apart?
Your mission is to find and give joy. You can't give it unless you have it. So your mission is to find joy. Then you won't even have to think about giving it. You won't be able to not give it. The way a tree carries fruit on its branches, so will you carry joy. So will you be a joy-giver. The joy you are and the joy you give will somersault over the face of the Earth. Joy will dismantle burden and woe. Burden and woe will go out the window. They cannot withstand so much joy as you will propel on Earth.
Your responsibility is joy. Work isn't as much your responsibility as you think. You have laden yourself with a darkened view of responsibility. Make work and responsibility joy. The same motion can be labor or it can be joy. Turn labor into joy. Remember Me. That will help.
If your work is polishing stones, know that you polish them for Me.
If your work is selling gems, know that you sell them for Me. You sell them to increase the joy in the world. The money earned is secondary. Joy is primary. Consider that, instead of earning money, you are earning joy. Joy multiplies better than money. Joy is real, and money is token.
I understand that you need money in the world and that you also realize that money, of itself, is joyless. Of yourself, you are joy. I will you joyful. Turn worry into joy, and you will be joyful. It is your cup of joy that is to run over.
Even if you work on a chain gang, remember Me, and that will be your joy. What is there to gain by not having joy?
If you did not feel that you had to prove something or protest, would you not have joy? Let joy be what you prove, rather than protest a lack of it. Make joy instead. Wrest it. Proclaim it and claim it. I will you to have joy. This is My commandment to you today. Make joy. Entertain joy. Have joy. Be joy. Be My joy.