…God gives you only happiness. …Love cannot give evil, and what is not happiness is evil.
…God has given you your function. We have seen that there are only two parts of your mind. One is ruled by the ego, and is made up of illusions. The other is the home of the Holy Spirit, where truth abides. There are no other guides but these to choose between, and no other outcomes possible as a result of your choice but the fear that the ego always engenders, and the love that the Holy Spirit always offers to replace it.
Think also about the many forms the illusion of your function has taken in your mind, and the many ways in which you tried to find salvation [happiness] under the ego’s guidance. …Yet the ego is the only alternative to the Holy Spirit’s Voice.
You will listen to madness or hear the truth. …On one side stand all illusions. All truth stands on the other. Let us try today to realize that only the truth is true.
My happiness and function are one, because God has given me both. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 66, W-pI.66.6:1,3;7;9:1,8;10:1,6-8;11:2. See also ACIM Lesson 66 Insights.)
Love is the Source of happiness. The ego is the denial of Love; it is the wish to separate from the Source of Love. When we let the ego be our guide, we are choosing to be unhappy. The ego tries to hide this fact by offering many forms that seem to offer happiness.
Yet if we are honest with ourselves, we have to acknowledge that no form in the world has ever offered lasting happiness. The best the ego illusions can ever offer are brief periods that seem happy, yet never last. We are soon directed on another search for some other form that might satisfy.
As the Voice for God, the Holy Spirit guides us to choose what will bring us God’s gift of perfect happiness. This happiness is eternal and remains ours without limit. This happiness comes by forgiving our wish to separate from Love. This is our function. It is the only way to experience God’s gift of perfect happiness. While forgiveness is incomplete, our level of happiness seems to be inconsistent. This is only because our unforgiveness limits the amount of happiness we are willing to accept.
In every moment we choose between the ego’s denial of Love and happiness, and the Holy Spirit’s gift of forgiveness through healing our fear based thoughts. Today we choose to be happy by choosing the Holy Spirit’s help to forgive.
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