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Finding True Happiness

And so today we do not choose the way in which we go to Him. But we do choose to let Him come. And with this choice we rest. And in our quiet hearts and open minds, His Love will blaze its pathway of itself. …God knows His Son, and knows the way to him. He does not need His Son to show Him how to find His way. Through every opened door His Love shines outward from its home within, and lightens up the world in innocence.

Father, we do not know the way to You. But we have called, and You have answered us. We will not interfere. Salvation’s ways are not our own, for they belong to You. And it is unto You we look for them. Our hands are open to receive Your gifts. We have no thoughts we think apart from You, and cherish no beliefs of what we are, or Who created us. Yours is the way that we would find and follow. And we ask but that Your Will, which is our own as well, be done in us and in the world, that it become a part of Heaven now. Amen. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 189, W-pI.189.9-10. See also ACIM Lesson 189 Insights.)

We need to learn that nothing in the world of separation can bring us lasting happiness. God’s Will for us is perfect happiness. But the world of separation is the denial of God’s Will and therefore is the denial of happiness.

To surrender to God’s Will seems like loss to us. We believe it will require us to give up everything we value. This is true. But what we value is simply empty shells with no value of their own. We have been deceiving ourselves by believing bodies, relationships and things in the world have value. Yet of themselves they are empty and ultimately will always disappoint us. Seeking for happiness in the world is seeking to not find.

To find what we really want, to find true happiness, we need to seek it where it can be found — in the memory of our oneness with God’s Love. We do not need to seek for Love, for it is already ours. We need only seek to recognize the barriers we have built against it and let them go. This is what forgiveness offers. This is the Holy Spirit’s function: To help us recognize what is not true, see the truth beyond it and let go of the false.

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