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!