Review Lessons:
My only function is the one God gave me.
My happiness and my function are one.
I’m still stuck on two sentences from yesterday’s lesson that rang through my head all day long:
“I cannot fulfill my function if I forget it. And unless I fulfill my function, I will not experience the joy that God intends for me.”
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It is similar to a sentence in Chapter 4: “You are not at peace because you are not fulfilling your function.”
This is amazing. I cannot be at peace or joy unless I am fulfilling God’s function. And I cannot fulfill my function if I forget it.
This is so funny to me!
(and practical and logical)
I have to fulfill my function to be happy!
I also read a great line in the Teacher’s Manual last night in the Section “Joy” under “What are the Characteristics of God’s Teachers”:
“God’s teachers trust in Him. And they are sure His Teacher goes before them, making sure no harm can come to them. They hold His gifts and follow in His Way, because God’s Voice directs them in all things. Joy is their song of thanks.”
Joy is their song of thanks.
Amazing, right? Joy is my way of saying thanks to you and to God, and to the Holy Spirit and Jesus.
Joy is their song of thanks.
So today’s lesson remind me that my happiness and my function are one. I am the light of the world.
Joy is my function because that is what I am. Love is my function because that is what I am. Being happy is my function because that is what I am.
My only function is the one God gave me.
God created me as light and love, and that’s all he gave me – and my function is identical to WHO I am. They are not separate or apart. They are one. My function is to be myself: light and love.
My happiness and my function are one.
Facebook comments:
Good morning, Lisa. hi, here i am wondering what God has in store for me today.Yesterday Iwas given a day of gifts, joining a friend in recovery and we sat and had coffee and while driving home to my place, I pointed her in a new direction and she exclaimed, Oh I have never been this way before…! I burst out laughing and shouted “Yes I KNOW”!!!!!!!!! AND then the drive home was one joyous moment after another. I went to get out of her jeep and I could not stop hanging on the door laughing…
By now it is noon and during my morning clean up I had was thinking about the feeling i am having about… I am moving..and wow what was I going to do about my computer.. how was i going to move this big old dinasaur… and the smallest thought is there, sure would be nice to have something smaller.. it was almost imperceptible.
Shortly after I arrived back home, my email pops up and it is my friend.. the subject box reads: RE: want a computer? we have two laptop computers, my husband just brought one home from work. So after I take the pictures off , you CAN HAVE IT!!!!!!!!!!
LOOK AT THAT. WILL YOU JUST LOOK AT THAT. THE ANSWER COMES WITH THE PROBLEM… WOW… I AM OVER THE MOON AT THIS POINT.
EVENING: here is my commitment around ‘special relationship’ rearing its ugly head and it is not even 8pm.. oh now here it is as I am writing, live like I am going to die at 8pm… I am in my codependent hell of my own making and God has sent me a brother that I am learning everything about having a relationship blessed by God. One that is free of me and my old patterns.. with an opportunity to move thru them… the operative word.. move, and then really it is stand still and be undone. This Dear One, seems to find a thread in my chainmail and I look and see that he has it… I make the choice everymoment to stand there… he starts pulling the thread and I am letting him. For the first time in my entire life I am willing to be naked in front of my brother..and yet within hours, I have woven another chainmail vest over my heart.. and now if he does not see the thread right away, I leave it sticking out for him, even if I have to start picking at it for him to find it..
I , in turn , am doing the same for him… he shows up with his chainmail and now he gives me a thread and stands in the Undoing.
wow lisa wow, Jesus, who is with me always, sat on my bed last night and said this is the time to let me do the undoing of all the known and the unknown.. and he walked me thru my life.. as I cried and sobbed and let go.. just keep surrendering and Lisa I could hear you say… go, girl, it is only energy… GO
I love you like there is death at 8pm …Jayme