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.