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Lesson 103

God, being Love, is also happiness.

Happiness is an attribute of love. It cannot be apart from it. Nor can it be experienced where love is not. Love has no limits, being everywhere. And therefore joy is everywhere as well. Yet can the mind deny that this is so, believing there are gaps in love where sin can enter, bringing pain instead of joy. This strange belief would limit happiness by redefining love as limited, and introducing opposition in what has no limit and no opposite.

It's amazing how the human mind has twisted itself in order to be autonomous and 'independent' from God. You can call it the ego, if you want, but it is actually you as you define yourself with a name and an identity separate from everything around you. It's a crazy thing, it's lonely and you go around trying to find love in another body. You fail, and try again, hoping that another body might satisfy. And when you finally do find love, you lose it. The idea that you can lose the things you love has nothing to do with God, but it is the idea on which you base your whole belief system. Somewhere you have got to say to yourself: 'What is going on?' Salvation starts with the thought that there must be a better way. Until you get to that point, you just keep going around in circles, still thinking that you can solve your impossible situation.

A Course In Miracles is for the mind that has had an 'aha-moment', if you will. You have somewhere questioned your life, what is happening to you and those around you, and you have asked for help. The words don't matter, God has heard your prayer. And, like it or not, you have been chosen, by Jesus. You have a function to fulfill. You are asked to be happy. You are asked to let go of all thoughts of pain and disaster and death, you are asked to wake up and you have been given the tool: 365 lessons for every day of the year and 31 chapters for you to read.

Today you are asked to no longer associate love with fear, you are asked to no longer give reality to the illusion. You are opening your eyes at last, questioning the world, denying sickness and death. The audacity of standing up and declaring that you will not die! Now you are sounding like Jesus and the experience is sure to follow. This is your resurrection, this is your ascension, and it happens simply by your willingness to let go of everything you now believe and to let truth and reality be revealed to you.

God, being Love, is also happiness.
To fear Him is to be afraid of joy.

You are as God created you. God is love, is happiness, and so are you because you were created in His likeness. Truth is true. This blog might not be the most popular one on the Internet, but it tells you the truth of the matter. You are as God created you. This world has no hold over you, unless you let it. You are given the tools to wake up: use them. Do the lesson for today, see the light in your brother, choose happiness and let it be revealed to you what that looks like. You might be smiling, you might not. Happiness is an inner condition of peace, and you know it when you feel it. From you it will extend to all the world so you can remember. What a joy. What a happiness. Thank you for your unlimited extension of love and light. That is where we meet. That is where we are holy brothers from out of time.

Lesson 102

He is risen! He is risen indeed!

Today is resurrection day. Jesus is risen. And all He is offering is that you are risen with Him, today, right now. And what a great lesson for today.

I share God's Will for happiness for me.

The last 3 lessons have shown you that all you have to do is be happy. That is your function, that is what you are. What a revolutionary idea. Up till now you have believed that unhappiness is a part of life, that with ups come downs, that with positive come negative. But Jesus is telling you something different. You are what happiness is, everyone and everything is released in your happiness. It's time to put your toys away. No more drama. You are risen.

You do not want to suffer. You may think it buys you something, and may still believe a little that it buys you what you want. Yet this belief is surely shaken now, at least enough to let you question it, and to suspect it really makes no sense. It has not gone as yet, but lacks the roots that once secured it tightly to the dark and hidden secret places of your mind.

What a confrontation. The first 2 sentences are showing you the responsibility for what you see and experience. You think suffering buys you something. Look honestly in your mind and you will know this to be true. Your suffering offers you... what? A shoulder to cry on? A story to play out, hopefully with a happy ending? You think that when someone consoles you in your suffering that that is love. Strange how you associate love with suffering. Look at it. Simply being happy is.. what? Boring? Impossible? Be honest with yourself. Why not just be happy? Why not just let God be in charge? Why not stop telling things what they are and should be? Why not turn your will and your life over to the care of God? Happiness is offered you, and only love. Is it really a choice?

Today we try to loose its weakened hold still further, and to realize that pain is purposeless, without a cause and with no power to accomplish anything. It cannot purchase anything at all. It offers nothing, and does not exist. And everything you think it offers you is lacking in existence, like itself. You have been slave to nothing. Be you free today to join the happy Will of God.

Jesus tells you in A Course In Miracles that the crucifixion was the last useless journey. It is over, it is finished. He resurrected. Now it is time for you to stop carrying the cross with you wherever you go. You are crucifying yourself every moment with thoughts of judgment, attack, guilt, sin and suffering. You don't have to do it anymore.

Be happy, for your only function here is happiness. You have no need to be less loving to God's Son than He Whose Love created him as loving as Himself.

The next few days will be offered you to practice reaching the happiness that God offers you. Funny, but true, you need practice to remember your happiness. You have been walking for so long in dark clouds that you can't see the light beyond. You are no longer a prisoner of your thoughts, you have been given a workbook with a thought for every day that places you beyond time and space altogether. This is your Easter Time and it is holy. Stay in God-awareness, be in communication with your Creator every moment. It is the only thing that will make you happy. You are risen. You are risen indeed!

Lesson 101

God's Will for me is perfect happiness.

Yes, indeed, God's Will for you is perfect happiness. That is, not happiness as opposed to unhappiness, simply perfect happiness. You still think of happiness in terms of an opposite to something that is not happiness. You still believe that sin and guilt and judgment are real, and you try very hard to go around them so you can be happy. That is not what A Course In Miracles offers you, and today's lesson is very clear about that. It is a total and pure confrontation with your ideas about sin and guilt. I'm not going to tell you what it says, you can pick up the workbook and read the lesson for yourself. I am only going to remind you of this:

You need the practice periods today. The exercises teach sin is not real, and all that you believe must come from sin will never happen, for it has no cause. Accept Atonement with an open mind, which cherishes no lingering belief that you have made a devil of God's Son. There is no sin.

We practice with this thought as often as we can today, because it is the basis for today's idea. God's Will for you is perfect happiness because there is no sin, and suffering is causeless. Joy is just, and pain is but the sign you have misunderstood yourself. Fear not the Will of God. But turn to it in confidence that it will set you free from all the consequences sin has wrought in feverish imagination. Say: God's Will for me is perfect happiness. There is no sin; it has no consequence.

This is the second day of the Easter Advent, and Jesus is in the tomb. Imagine that, feel it, know it. Jesus is in the tomb, and you are there with Him. The crucifixion was the last useless journey, you are waiting and trusting in God. You are in the process of resurrecting. In your awakening process you learn to trust the 3 days, that when the intensity is at its strongest you resurrect and come out on the other side. This goes beyond sin and guilt, this is your happiness. Jesus is risen. He is risen indeed. And all He is telling you is that you are resurrected with Him.

Lesson 100

My part is essential to God's plan for salvation.

God's Will for you is perfect happiness. Why should you choose to go against His Will? The part that He has saved for you to take in working out His plan is given you that you might be restored to what He wills. This part is as essential to His plan as to your happiness. Your joy must be complete to let His plan be understood by those to whom He sends you. They will see their function in your shining face, and hear God calling to them in your happy laugh.

You are indeed essential to God's plan. Without your joy, His joy is incomplete. Without your smile, the world cannot be saved. While you are sad, the light that God Himself appointed as the means to save the world is dim and lusterless, and no one laughs because all laughter can but echo yours.

What a great lesson. You are essential to God's plan for salvation and He asks you to be happy. Simple, right?

Right...

Fact of the matter is that when you believe that this world has reality, you can't possibly be happy. Look around you. People get kidnapped, killed for no reason, lose their jobs and their houses and on and on. Your happiness does not lie here. Your happiness is in God and in the realization that the world you seem to live in has no reality, that you are dreaming and that you can awaken. That should make you very happy.

This is your Easter Advent and there is a lot of light and conversion. God is shining His light on you and knows that His light is yours. The conversion takes place in your mind as you let old thoughts of pain and death be replaced with the thought of God. It is intense, but thank God. Why would you hold on to ideas of pain and death. Why would you want to get away with anything? Your 'yes, but...' should be running out of steam by now. Stand up, declare yourself, be active in your awakening. Take off your hat of death and wear your Easter bonnet. He is risen. He is risen indeed! And you have risen with Him. What a glorious advent.

We will not let ourselves be sad today. For if we do, we fail to take the part that is essential to God's plan, as well as to our vision. Sadness is the sign that you would play another part, instead of what has been assigned to you by God. Thus do you fail to show the world how great the happiness He wills for you. And so you do not recognize that it is yours.

Today we will attempt to understand joy is our function here. If you are sad, your part is unfulfilled, and all the world is thus deprived of joy, along with you. God asks you to be happy, so the world can see how much He loves His Son, and wills no sorrow rises to abate his joy; no fear besets him to disturb his peace. You are God's messenger today. You bring His happiness to all you look upon; His peace to everyone who looks on you and sees His message in your happy face.

Lesson 99

Salvation is my only function here.

Salvation and forgiveness are the same. They both imply that something has gone wrong; something to be saved from, forgiven for; something amiss that needs corrective change; something apart or different from the Will of God. .Thus do both terms imply a thing impossible but yet which has occurred, resulting in a state of conflict seen between what is and what could never be.

You are indeed in an impossible situation, because you truly believe that it is possible for something to go wrong. You believe in pain, disaster and death and you have actually convinced yourself that that has something to do with God. Anyone in their right mind knows that God, your Creator, is an all loving God. He knows nothing about all your pains and worries, He only calls you gently to remember. Now you see why your situation is impossible. You have given reality to a world that God knows nothing about. You need a change of mind. You need a miracle.

How could there be a meeting place at all where earth and Heaven can be reconciled within a mind where both of them exist? The mind that sees illusions thinks them real. They have existence in that they are thoughts. And yet they are not real, because the mind that thinks these thoughts is separate from God.

This is exactly why A Course In Miracles is an experience. You try to wrap your mind around what you just read, and you fail miserably. You sit down with your Course group and discuss what you have just read, and you miss the point entirely. The only way you can truly know what Jesus is telling you, is by the experience of it. This can't be shared, except in its totality. It goes beyond discussion altogether. The best thing you can do for your Course group is to be quiet and pray, ask for the experience and then receive it. This is personal, it is only between you and God. Forget the group, forget these people that can only reflect what you believe, and come with empty hands unto your God. Now something can happen. It's between you and God.

The Holy Spirit holds this plan of God exactly as it was received of Him within the Mind of God and in your own. It is apart from time in that its Source is timeless. Yet it operates in time, because of your belief that time is real. Unshaken does the Holy Spirit look on what you see; on sin and pain and death, on grief and separation and on loss. Yet does He know one thing must still be true; God is still Love, and this is not His Will.

You can't understand it, simply because you are operating from a very limited framework. You, as you see yourself now, have no reality whatsoever. You don't know who you are. Your mind doesn't actually think at all, and that is what you don't want to accept. What you are offered today goes way beyond your small ideas of the world and of God and of yourself. This is completely out of time, beyond the body, beyond the moon and stars. Don't try to understand it, just ask for the experience. And when you receive the experience, don't try to lock it away under a small point of reference. Just keep an open mind. Remember this, and only this:

Salvation is my only function here. God still is Love, and this is not His Will.

That's all you need to know. It suffices for today. You will never understand A Course In Miracles intellectually, but you can experience it. Right here and right now. That is what you should be asking for: the experience. Let the understanding of this course be exactly what it is: nothing. And be in the awareness of what is offered you now and every moment: everything.

Lesson 98

I will accept my part in God's plan for salvation.

Let's try again today. You can do it. Side for truth today and let illusions go. This is Jesus standing beside you, leading you, supporting you, asking you today to take a step into full commitment to your awakening.

Today is a day of special dedication. We take a stand on but one side today. We side with truth and let illusions go. We will not vacillate between the two, but take a firm position with the One. We dedicate ourselves to truth today, and to salvation as God planned it be. We will not argue it is something else. We will not seek for it where it is not. In gladness we accept it as it is, and take the part assigned to us by God.

The whole problem that you have is that you try to fit A Course In Miracles into your small frame of reference. You try to use it to have a better life, to solve the problems in your relationship, to find the best job. All you ever do is try to bring truth to illusion, and it won't work.


'So what is the illusion?', you might ask. What a great question. Let's look at it directly. The illusion is you as you see yourself in a body identity. In fact, it is you as you see yourself now, period. The one mistake that you make, and that you hold onto with all your might, is that you believe this world is real. From that framework you try to make the world a better place. Good luck. You have tried it for centuries, it is a hopeless effort. The only change you can really make is in you, you can change your mind about yourself. Now you are on to something, now you are doing the mind training of the workbook lessons.

I am not a body, I am free.
I loose the world from all I thought it was.
I choose the second place to gain the first.

These are all great lessons. As is the lesson for today. You have a purpose to fulfill and it is all about your contact with God. That should be your focus, every moment. Up till now you have focused on the world and everything in it, but now you focus on God.

How happy to be certain! All our doubts we lay aside today, and take our stand with certainty of purpose, and with thanks that doubt is gone and surety has come. We have a mighty purpose to fulfill, and have been given everything we need with which to reach the goal. Not one mistake stands in our way. For we have been absolved from errors. All our sins are washed away by realizing they were but mistakes.

The guiltless have no fear, for they are safe and recognize their safety. They do not appeal to magic, nor invent escapes from fancied threats without reality. They rest in quiet certainty that they will do what it is given them to do. They do not doubt their own ability because they know their function will be filled completely in the perfect time and place. They took the stand which we will take today, that we may share their certainty and thus increase it by accepting it ourselves.

Your safety lies in God and in Him only. Look around you and you will know this to be true. Does your safety lie in the government's hands? In a doctor's hands? In the car coming at you on the road? Hardly. You have no idea where anyone is at, you can only take responsibility for what is going on in your own mind. Focus on God today, stay in communication with Him. Listen to His Voice and let Him show you where to go and what to do. Go beyond this world all together. Forget about it. It has no reality. Only God is real, and you in Him. You are as God created you.