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The Choice for Happiness

Each day, each hour and minute, even each second, you are deciding between the crucifixion and the resurrection; between the ego and the Holy Spirit. The ego is the choice for guilt; the Holy Spirit the choice for guiltlessness. The power of decision is all that is yours. What you can decide between is fixed, because there are no alternatives except truth and illusion. And there is no overlap between them, because they are opposites which cannot be reconciled and cannot both be true. You are guilty or guiltless, bound or free, unhappy or happy.

The miracle [true perception] teaches you that you have chosen guiltlessness, freedom and joy. It is not a cause, but an effect. It is the natural result of choosing right, attesting to your happiness that comes from choosing to be free of guilt. Everyone you offer healing to returns it. Everyone you attack keeps it and cherishes it by holding it against you. Whether he does this or does it not will make no difference; you will think he does. It is impossible to offer what you do not want without this penalty. The cost of giving is receiving. (A Course in Miracles, T-14.III.4:1-5:8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

God sees His Son as innocent because He sees his Son as one with Himself. Whenever we perceive guilt in another or our self, we are perceiving wrongly. We are believing we are a false image of what God created us to be. This does not affect God’s knowing of His Son as guiltless. But it does make us unaware of our eternal unity with our Creator.

The choice to accept the ego belief in separation is the crucifixion of God’s Son by denying our true Life in God. The Holy Spirit teaches us to choose the oneness of Love, to choose the Life we live in God. This is the choice for happiness because joy is an attribute of Love.

Today we practice letting Love be our Guide in all that we do, say and think because we want to be happy.

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