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Accepting the Happy Dream

The Holy Spirit, ever practical in His wisdom, accepts your dreams and uses them as means for waking. ²You would have used them to remain asleep. ³I said before that the first change, before dreams disappear, is that your dreams of fear are changed to happy dreams. ⁴That is what the Holy Spirit does in the special relationship. ⁵He does not destroy it, nor snatch it away from you. ⁶But He does use it differently, as a help to make His purpose real to you. ⁷The special relationship will remain, not as a source of pain and guilt, but as a source of joy and freedom. ⁸It will not be for you alone, for therein lay its misery. ⁹As its unholiness kept it a thing apart, its holiness will become an offering to everyone.

Your special relationship will be a means for undoing guilt in everyone blessed through your holy relationship. ²It will be a happy dream, and one which you will share with all who come within your sight.

⁴In your relationship the Holy Spirit has gently laid the real world; the world of happy dreams, from which awaking is so easy and so natural. ⁵For as your sleeping and your waking dreams represent the same wishes in your mind, so do the real world and the truth of Heaven join in the Will of God. ⁶The dream of waking is easily transferred to [Heaven’s] reality. ⁷For this dream reflects your will joined with the Will of God. ⁸And what this Will would have accomplished has never not been done. (A Course in Miracles, T-18.II.6:1–7:2;9:4-8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

God’s Will is that His Son share His happiness. If we are not happy, we are rejecting God’s Will for us. A separate identity, different from all others, could never be God’s Will. The unity of Love cannot comprehend anything but Its oneness.

God gave us the Holy Spirit to help us heal our mistaken wish for specialness. He sees what we are dreaming and offers us a replacement happy dream. In His dream there is no conflict, no competition nor uncertainty. As we let the Holy Spirit replace our dream with His, our relationships become happy.

No longer do we have conflicting goals where one seems to lose for another to gain. The consistent certainty of Love replaces the instability of the dream of specialness. We see our brothers sharing our unity in Love. As the awareness of Love increases, we feel Its joy grow. We awaken to our unity in Love and extend Its blessing freely and happily. In gratitude we heal.

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