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Choosing the Goal That Leads to Happiness

God does not suffer conflict. ²Nor is His creation split in two. ³How could it be His Son could be in hell, when God Himself established him in Heaven? ⁴Could he lose what the Eternal Will has given him to be his home forever? ⁵Let us not try longer to impose an alien will upon God’s single purpose. ⁶He is here because He wills to be, and what He wills is present now, beyond the reach of time.

²No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth, and it is truth we seek to reach today. ³…we will ask to see the rising of the real world to replace the foolish images that we hold dear, with true ideas arising in the place of thoughts that have no meaning, no effect, and neither source nor substance in the truth.

Remember often that today should be a time of special gladness, and refrain from dismal thoughts and meaningless laments. ²Salvation’s time has come. ³Today is set by Heaven itself to be a time of grace for you and for the world. ⁴If you forget this happy fact, remind yourself with this:

⁵Today I seek and find all that I want.
⁶My single purpose offers it to me.
⁷No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth. (A Course in Miracles, W-131.8;10:2-3;15. See also ACIM Lesson 131 Insights.)

We have taught ourselves to believe that the dream of specialness is real. What we treasure we seek to find in meaningless forms that cannot last. Battles for supremacy occur at every level of our seeming existence — between individuals, groups, regions and nations. But when these goals are reached, they never satisfy because the ego’s underlying goal is always to seek and not find.

But our true Self has a single purpose: To be and extend God’s Love. In the dream, this purpose is fulfilled through forgiveness — removing the barriers to awareness of Love’ presence. This is how we let ourselves back into the Heaven we believed we left in search of a goal that can never be found. But we have the means to find the truth which is guaranteed by God to succeed. Today we remind ourselves that all we really want is the truth — to know that only Love is real.

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