Mary:
This morning we were guided to read “The Two Pictures” in A Course in Miracles Text, Chapter 17. The first paragraph stood out to me:
God established His relationship with you to make you happy, and nothing you do that does not share His purpose can be real. The purpose God ascribed to anything is its only function. Because of His reason for creating His relationship with you, the function of relationships became forever ‘to make happy.’ And nothing else. To fulfill this function [to make happy] you relate to your creations as God to His. Nothing God created is apart from happiness, and nothing God created but would extend happiness as its Creator did. Whatever does not fulfill this function cannot be real. (17.IV.1)
In Lesson 103, Jesus reminds us that happiness is an attribute of Love. If I am not happy, it is a reminder to me that I have put up a barrier against awareness of Love’s Presence in my mind — I have joined with an ego thought that is afraid of Love.
This gives me an important clue that I need to once again step back and remember that my meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world. Separation could never replace Love’s oneness. If I truly want to be happy, I need to let go of the ego’s defense against the truth. I can once again open to letting my mind be healed by the Holy Spirit. I can let the Holy Spirit show me the difference between the real and the unreal. I can once again be as a little child that is open to my Father. I can let go and let God. I can let my mind be returned to happiness.
This is my practice for today. “God, being Love, is also happiness.” I can pay attention to when I am joining with unhappy thoughts and let them be replaced with the help of the Holy Spirit in my mind. Oh happy day!
Robert:
Accepting that my function is to make happy does not mean that my job is to behave in a way that will make someone be happy with me. This is a mistake of focusing on form instead of content. Happiness cannot be found in form because form is the ego’s substitute for reality. Form is not real and can never be real.
Since happiness is an attribute of Love, to make happy is to Love. I make happy by joining with my brother in Love beyond all form. It is as I accept the oneness of Love that I make way for happiness. The nature of Love is to extend Itself and therefore to extend happiness. As I let go of focusing on form (separation) the joy of Love rushes in to fill the “space” that had stood as a barrier against Love. Forgiveness makes way for happiness.
Today I ask the Holy Spirit to help me recognize the barriers I have put up against Love and let them go.
© Copyright 2011, Pathways of Light. https://www.pathwaysoflight.org
You may freely share copies of this with your friends, provided this notice is included.
Has this page been helpful to you?
Your contribution in support of this site is greatly appreciated. To make a tax deductible contribution or become a member online, go to http://www.pathwaysoflight.org/polshop/home.php?cat=254.
Or send a check or money order to Pathways of Light, 6 Oak Court, Ormond Beach, FL 32174-2623 (USD only, please) Thank you for your support.