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Accepting God’s Gift of Joy

Just as God’s Son completes his Father, so your part in it completes your Father’s plan. Salvation must reverse the mad belief in separate thoughts and separate bodies, which lead separate lives and go their separate ways. One function shared by separate minds unites them in one purpose, for each one of them is equally essential to them all.

God’s Will for you is perfect happiness. Why should you choose to go against His Will? The part that He has saved for you to take in working out His plan is given you that you might be restored to what He wills. This part is as essential to His plan as to your happiness. Your joy must be complete to let His plan be understood by those to whom He sends you. They will see their function in your shining face, and hear God calling to them in your happy laugh.

…your part is to be happy. Only this is asked of you or anyone who wants to take his place among God’s messengers.

Look deep within you, undismayed by all the little thoughts and foolish goals you pass as you ascend to meet the Christ in you.

He will be there. You are essential to His plan. You are His messenger today. And you must find [the joy] He would have you give. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 100, W-pI.100.1-2;7:3-4;8:5;10:1-4. See also ACIM Lesson 100 Insights.)

God has given His Son the gift of joy. It is in all of us now. If we are not wholly joyous, we have accepted a false belief that we are separate from God and each other. God’s joy is still in us but hidden from our awareness by our denial. This denial can be reversed. God has given us help to awaken to His joy.

Let us join together with our brothers to welcome the Holy Spirit’s help to let go of our mistaken belief in separation. With His help, the vision of Christ in our mind will help us see beyond the images of separation in the world. Joy is there to be seen in everyone. Christ’s vision reveals it as we are willing to accept help. We join together to look deep within, with Christ beside and in us, to find the joy that is ours now. As we accept the joy within, we become God’s messengers of joy. Together we bring healing and joy to the world.

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