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The Choice for Happiness

Let me not forget my function.

Today’s idea is merely another way of saying “Let me not wander into temptation.” ²The purpose of the world you see is to obscure your function of forgiveness, and provide you with a justification for forgetting it. ³[The world] is the temptation to abandon God and His Son by taking on a physical appearance. ⁴It is this the body’s eyes look upon.

Nothing the body’s eyes seem to see can be anything but a form of temptation, since this was the purpose of the body itself. ²Yet we have learned that the Holy Spirit has another use for all the illusions you have made, and therefore He sees another purpose in them. ³To the Holy Spirit, the world is a place where you learn to forgive yourself what you think of as your sins. ⁴In this perception, the physical appearance of temptation becomes the spiritual recognition of salvation.

³The world’s salvation awaits your forgiveness, because through it does the Son of God escape from all illusions, and thus from all temptation. ⁴The Son of God is you.

…every time you choose whether or not to fulfill your function [forgive], you are really choosing whether or not to be happy. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 64, W-64.1:1–2:4;3:3-4;4:4. See also ACIM Lesson 64 Insights.)

Everyone wants to be happy. But the level of happiness achieved depends upon who is chosen as the guide to happiness. The ego offers illusions that it tempts us to pursue in order to be happy. Yet the achievement of any of the ego’s goals cannot lead to lasting happiness. Illusions are not real and therefore temporary at best. The ego’s goal is always to seek and not find. It knows the true happiness would lead to its dissolution.

Only Love is real and eternal. Forgiving our illusions clears away the ego’s smokescreen of appealing illusions to reveal the presence of eternal Love everywhere. To truly forgive we need to choose the Holy Spirit as our Guide to happiness. If we are willing, He will reinterpret all our perceptions to help us see past the ego’s dark shadows to the Light of Love that surrounds us and is in us. This Light unites us with every brother in the one Self God created as His Son. Here we find happiness beyond words. The choice to follow Holy Spirit is the choice to be happy. Which choice will we make today?

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