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Welcoming God’s Joy as Our Own

God, being Love, is also happiness.

Happiness is an attribute of love. It cannot be apart from it. Nor can it be experienced where love is not. Love has no limits, being everywhere. And therefore joy is everywhere as well. Yet can the mind deny that this is so, believing there are gaps in love where sin can enter, bringing pain instead of joy. This strange belief would limit happiness by redefining love as limited, and introducing opposition in what has no limit and no opposite.

Allow this one correction to be placed within your mind each waking hour today. Then welcome all the happiness it brings as truth replaces fear, and joy becomes what you expect to take the place of pain. God, being Love, it will be given you. Bolster this expectation frequently throughout the day, and quiet all your fears with this assurance, kind and wholly true:

God, being Love, is also happiness.
And it is happiness I seek today.
I cannot fail, because I seek the truth. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 103, W-pI.103.1;3. See also ACIM Lesson 103 Insights.)

Happiness is an inside job. We experience it as we identify with our true Self, Who is eternally united with God and shares His joy. The only reason we do not experience God’s joy is because we have chosen to believe in a false identity that denies our unity in Love. The Love and joy of our true Self remains untouched by this denial. It is only hidden from our awareness until we accept It as What we are.

Forgiveness is the way to let go of the denial and accept God’s gift of Love. Every moment of every day we are presented with a choice between believing in the denial, which could never be true, or accepting the reality of Love. Today we break from our past habits and choose once again to accept our true Identity as Love. By this choice we welcome God’s joy as our own.

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