Lesson 117

Happiness is what you ARE.

It’s God’s gift to you.

It’s not something you do and it’s not something you strive for … it’s what you are, as God created you.

There is a huge difference between knowing yourself as happiness and trying to set up a life that makes you happy. These two things might sound the same at first glance, but they are as different as day and night.

Knowing yourself as happiness is to feel joy within. It is to feel happy for no reason at all. You feel like dancing, hugging, smiling laughing, kissing and telling friends, family and strangers that you love them.

It’s an energy within you that is not containable, like a river overflowing. It’s the Love of God and when you know it, you’ll want to sing.

It will take you by surprise.

Everyone has experienced it at some point in their life. You suddenly have no cares, no worries, no anxiety and you feel happy.

You might even say to yourself: WHY AM I SO HAPPY?

Because it seems to have no source. All of a sudden, out of nowhere you feel like: “Wow, it’s a beautiful day! I feel alive!”

Trying to set up a life that makes you happy means you don’t know yourself at all, and that you believe that external things – money, relationships, a job, a house, a car, a vacation – can make you happy.

HUGE DIFFERENCE.

External things will not make you happy.

They might make you happy for an hour, a day, or a month or even six month (highly doubtful), but people, places and things will not make you happy forever. Feel free to experiment with this. Get something that you have always wanted. A new relationship. A house. A new body. Money. It will thrill you initially, but at some point, the old fear starts to creep back in. You begin to feel doubt. You begin to feel overwhelmed by the house. You begin to feel afraid by the responsibilities of the new job. You start to feel anxiety that eventually you will lose this thing you worked so hard for.

Why is this? Because nothing in form lasts forever. A body dies. Relationships end. A house crumbles. Jobs disappear. Things break. People move on. Businesses go bankrupt. The economy changes. Gas prices go up. Airline prices go up. Food prices go up.

Suddenly, the thing that felt so secure is not so secure anymore.

The only thing that will truly make you happy, consistently, is to know yourself as God created you. Real lasting happiness comes from knowing you are Mind, Spirit, Light and Eternal. You’ll be instantly happy when you see God in everything.

Happiness is your natural inheritance. It’s what God gave you when He created you.

So you don’t have to go searching for it. It’s in your already. It’s what you are. He gave you everything you need to be happy, now.

Today, all you need do is REMEMBER this fact.

God, being Love, is also happiness.

“Let me remember love is happiness, and nothing else brings joy. And so I choose to entertain no substitutes for love.”

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Did you read that?

I love it:

LOVE IS HAPPINESS AND NOTHING ELSE BRINGS JOY.

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Nothing else brings joy.

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AND SO I CHOOSE TO ENTERTAIN NO SUBSTITUTES FOR LOVE.

Today, I will make no substitutes for love. I have it already. Love is what I am. Happiness is what I am. I don’t need to work hard to find it. I don’t have to be younger, better, cuter, richer. I have it now. It’s in me. It’s what I am. It’s God’s gift to me.

I seek but what belongs to me in truth.

“Love is my heritage, and with it joy. These are the gifts my Father gave to me. I would accept all that is mine in truth.”