…you cannot make decisions by yourself. ⁴The only question really is with what you choose to make them.
Your day is not at random. ²It is set by what you choose to live it with, and how the friend [ego or Holy Spirit] whose counsel you have sought perceives your happiness. ³You always ask advice before you can decide on anything.
…you and your adviser must agree on what you want before it can occur. ³It is but this agreement that permits all things to happen. ⁴Nothing can be caused without some form of union, be it with a dream of judgment or the Voice for God. ⁵Decisions cause results _because_ they are not made in isolation.
It needs but two [you and Holy Spirit] who would have happiness this day to promise it to all the world. ²It needs but two to understand that they cannot decide alone, to guarantee the joy they asked for will be wholly shared. …⁵These two are joined before there can be a decision. ⁶Let this be the one reminder that you keep in mind, and you will have the day you want, and give it to the world by having it yourself. ⁷Your judgment has been lifted from the world by your decision for a happy day. ⁸And as you have received, so must you give. (A Course in Miracles, T-30.I.14:3-4;15:1-3;16:2-5;17:1-2,5-8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
The consequence of choosing to believe that specialness will make us happy is the dream of conflict, loss, guilt and fear we experience. We have made an “advisor,” the ego, that we rely on as a guide in all decision making to guide us to the specialness we seek. The ego cannot offer true and lasting happiness. The best it can offer are substitute fantasies that bring us temporary happiness. This happiness never lasts because it has no reliable foundation.
In answer for our self-made advisor, God gave us His Advisor, the Holy Spirit. In every instant we can choose the Holy Spirit as our advisor. We can rely on Him to guide us to true and lasting happiness. He guides us to remember the joy that is innate in the Love we are as created by God.
The recipe to have a happy day is to choose the Holy Spirit as our Advisor. When we join with Him, we unite with the Love of God. There is no greater joy than experiencing the presence of God’s Love. His Love is ours. His joy is ours.
We start today by committing to the practice of judging nothing on our own. Instead we ask of the Holy Spirit, “How would You see this? What would You have me do or say? I would only follow You.”
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