Your present trust in Him is the defense that promises a future undisturbed, without a trace of sorrow, and with joy that constantly increases, as this life becomes a holy instant, set in time, but heeding only immortality. Let no defenses but your present trust direct the future, and this life becomes a meaningful encounter with the truth that only your defenses would conceal.
Without defenses, you become a light which Heaven gratefully acknowledges to be its own. And it will lead you on in ways appointed for your happiness according to the ancient plan, begun when time was born. Your followers will join their light with yours, and it will be increased until the world is lighted up with joy. And gladly will our brothers lay aside their cumbersome defenses, which availed them nothing and could only terrify. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 135, W-pI.135.19-20. See also ACIM Lesson 135 Insights.)
Everyone in the world is seeking happiness. If we think happiness can be found in forms of the world, our search is unending, for we are searching where happiness cannot be found. Yet happiness beyond description is available to us in each now moment, not in the world but in our unity with our Creator.
Our Source is happiness and shares all happiness with us, Its creation. We claim our happiness by putting our present trust in our one Self, united with our Creator. Nothing else is worthy of our trust. Nothing else can offer us perfect happiness and peace that cannot be disturbed.
As we practice bringing all our thoughts to our one Self to be interpreted from the perspective of the Christ Mind, we are placing our trust where trust is justified. This is done in each now moment. We let go of trying to use the past as the basis for our interpretation. We let go of planning for an unknown future. We build our trust that the future will be the same as the present moment — safe in the changeless Love which fills us with limitless joy.
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