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Learning Lessons of Peace and Happiness

All things are lessons God would have me learn.

A lesson is a miracle which God offers to me, in place of thoughts I made that hurt me. What I learn of Him becomes the way I am set free. And so I choose to learn His lessons and forget my own.

I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 213, W-pI.213. See also ACIM Lesson 213 Insights.)

The ego believes in guilt and punishment. It projects this belief onto God. When bad things seem to happen to us, the ego interprets this as God’s punishing lesson. But this is the lesson the ego wants us to learn to justify the illusion of guilt and punishment.

God cannot conceive of punishment because Love sees only innocence. God’s lesson is that what we perceive as hurt, fear or guilt is based on a false idea that could never be true. His lesson would teach us to see our eternal harmlessness. God’s lesson always teaches that only Love is real. The perception of anything other than Love, peace and joy is nothing more than a mistaken belief that needs to be let go. What is not true does not exist and cannot affect God’s Son.

With this idea in mind, every perception that is less than peaceful and happy is a lesson that God would have us learn — to overlook the false that could never be true. If we are willing to accept the Holy Spirit’s help, we will learn the lesson presented to us by the false perception. Any pain associated with God’s lessons come from the ego’s misinterpretation. God’s lessons always lead to deeper peace and greater happiness.

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