Someone said to me: why would you want to be happy all the time????
HAHA.
Because it feels good!!
Happiness is not a “doing.” It’s simply being yourself as God created you.
Happiness is what you are. It’s not something you “do.” It’s what you are.
And it feels good! I don’t know about anyone else, but I like to feel good all the time – to wake up happy, to stay happy, and to go to bed happy.
A Course in Miracles is nothing more than a systematic way to remove the blocks that are in the way of your awareness of your Identity as happiness and One with God.
She said: well, what about when I’m sad?
?????
I don’t understand.
WHY WOULD YOU BE SAD WHEN YOU HAVE THE MESSAGE OF JESUS?
How could you be sad when God is with you at all times, every second of every minute of every day?
How could you possibly have a problem?
“Sadness is a sign that you would play another part, instead of what has been assigned to you by God. Thus do you fail to show the world HOW GREAT THE HAPPINESS He wills for you.” – ACIM Lesson 100
I had a great talk with someone last night who was asking what he’s still doing here.
I used to ask that question … A LOT.
WHAT AM I STILL DOING HERE?
If this is a dream, then WHAT THE HECK?
I used to get really pissed off and angry about it. I would swear a lot. And pray a lot. Which, if you think about it, is to COMPLETELY MISS the moment.
I kept waiting for the world to disappear, or for me to disappear, or for something really dramatic to happen. I was in “waiting” mode for years. Waiting for something to occur.
I used to pray night and day to be taken out of the world. I wanted to be with God. I wanted to be with Jesus.
And then … MIRACLE OF ALL MIRACLES … I got an answer.
Lesson 107: Truth will correct all errors in my mind.
Truth reminded me that I’m the light of the world.
Remembering that, I don’t have a problem being here anymore. I am perfectly happy if I’m here for another 100 years and I’m perfectly happy if I’m here for 2 more minutes. Either way is fine. I’m not trying to escape an unreal condition anymore. I’m here in the happy realization and dedication that I’m a disciple of Jesus
2000 years ago all 12 of his disciples fell asleep during a crucial moment when Jesus asked them to stay awake while he prayed in his final moments up there on the mountain before he was taken away to prison to be crucified.
And they all fell asleep.
And what I came to realize is that every time I stayed in conflict (wondering why I was still here, questioning, doubting, feeling sad and sorry for myself), I was failing Jesus and falling asleep.
I’m asked to be happy.
That’s it!
As a disciple of Jesus, I’m asked to be happy.
That’s it! I’m not asked to “do” anything – just BE happy.
To be myself, to do what I love, and be happy. That’s “the secret.”
“You are indeed essential to God’s plan. Without your joy, His joy is incomplete. Without your smile, the world cannot be saved. While you are sad, the light that God Himself appointed as the means to save the world is dim and lusterless, and no one laughs because all laughter can but echo yours.” – A Course in Miracles, Lesson 100
“We will not let ourselves be sad today. For if we do, we fail to take the part that is essential to God’s plan, as well as to our vision. Sadness is a sign that you would play another part, instead of what has been assigned to you by God.” – ACIM Lesson 100
The above is like Jesus saying: don’t fall asleep, okay? Will you guys just stay awake while I pray? Would you do that for me??
And so, logically, being in conflict about being in time and space would by definition be a form of sadness.
And so, I made a decision to stand with Jesus all the way – to stay awake for him.
What problem could I have in being in time and space, knowing that I’m not alone? There’s no where to go. There’s only now.
What is a hundred or a thousand years to Them, or tens of thousands? When They come, time’s purpose is fulfilled. What never WAS passes to nothingness when They have come. What hatred claimed is given up to love, and freedom lights up every living thing and lifts it into Heaven, where the lights grow ever brighter as each one comes home. The incomplete is made complete again, and Heaven’s joy has been increased because what is its own has been restored to it. The bloodied earth is cleansed, and the insane have shed their garments of insanity, to join Them on the ground whereon you stand.
Almost everyone I know (including myself) has had an experience of “leaving the world” – it’s those moments of great joy and tranquility which bypasses every worldly experience of peace. It’s something else entirely. It’s a feeling of total relaxation in God.
And then what happens, is something happens. The phone rings or a thought about an unpaid bill pops into mind, or someone says something that totally wrecks your good mood. Something always happens, and you come crashing down into time and space.
And then come the curse words. 
How the F— do I stay there consistently?? G-D damn it. What the HELL am I doing wrong? What is wrong me?? Etc.
“WE WILL NOT LET OURSELVES BE SAD TODAY.” – Lesson 100
And Jesus, the greatest teacher of all time ever, addresses this in Lesson 107: Truth will correct all errors in my mind.
Can you imagine what a state of mind without illusions is?
How would it feel?
Try to remember when there was a time – perhaps a minute; maybe even less – when nothing came to interrupt your peace; when you were certain you were loved and safe. THEN … try to picture what it would be like to have that moment be extended to the end of time and to eternity.
THEN …. let the sense of quiet that you felt be multiplied a hundred times more
AND THEN… be multiplied another hundred more.
AND NOW … you have A HINT, not more than just the faintest intimation of the state your mind will rest in when truth has come.
YEE-HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is what is being offered when you let go of grievances.
Without illusions there could be no fear,no doubt, and no attack.
When truth has come all pain is over, for there is NO ROOM for transitory thoughts and dead ideas to linger in your mind.
TRUTH OCCUPIES YOUR MIND COMPLETELY.
yes, yes, yes.
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!
LIBERATING YOU FROM ALL BELIEFS IN THE EPHEMERAL.
I never would have believed it true, except that it happened (and is happening!) to me.
“When truth occupies your mind COMPLETELY – all illusions of fear and conflict disappear.”
“They have no place because the truth has come, and they are nowhere. They can not be found, for truth is everywhere forever,now.”
“When truth has come it does not stay a while to disappear or change to something else. It does not shift and alter in its form, nor come and go and go and come again.
“IT STAYS EXACTLY AS IT ALWAYS WAS, TO BE DEPENDED ON IN EVERY NEED, AND TRUSTED WITH A PERFECT TRUST IN ALL THE SEEMING DIFFICULTIES AND DOUBTS THAT THE APPEARANCES THE WORLD PRESENTS ENGENDER.”
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. True, true, true.
Everything gets really really easy.
THE WORD OF GOD OF TRUE.
I exist only as a witness that this message of Jesus is 100 percent true.
There is no need for difficulties, sickness or problems of any kind.
How could you possibly suffer when God goes with you wherever you go? What problem could you have that He will not solve?
I love Jesus.
I love that the message of A Course in Miracles is true. I ALWAYS KNEW IT.
It’s fun to finally see it.
“When truth has come it harbors in its wings the gift of PERFECT CONSTANCY and LOVE WHICH DOES NOT FALTER in the face of pain, but LOOKS BEYOND IT, steadily and sure.
HERE IS THE GIFT OF HEALING.
Illusions can be brought to truth to be corrected.
But the truth stands far beyond illusions (YEA!!!!!!!!!) and can not be brought to them and turn them into truth.
How could I possibly have a problem when God goes with me wherever I go? The Great Companion, Giving of Life, is walking with me.
WHERE IS MY PROBLEM NOW?
What difficulty could I possibly have if God is with me?
Somehow, this question evaded me for years. I had lots of problems. I struggled with no money. I struggled with relationships. I struggled with health issues. I struggled with confusion, conflict and doubt.
I kept waiting for a “miracle.” I kept waiting for God to save me, for another person to save me, for more money to save me. I laugh now because God was with me the whole time. I had everything the whole time. But where was I? LOST IN DREAMS.
“Today we practice on the happy note of certainty that has been born of truth. The shaky and unsteady footsteps of illusion are not our approach today. We are as certain of success as we are sure we live and hope and breathe and think.
BEGIN by ASKING HIM WHO GOES WITH YOU UPON THIS UNDERTAKING THAT HE BE IN YOUR AWARENESS AS YOU GO WITH HIM.
Speak to Him today, and make your pledge to let His function be fulfilled through you.
I love that!!!!
To share God’s function is to share His joy.
His confidence is with you as you say:
Truth will correct all errors in my mind.
And I will rest in Him Who is my Self.
Then let Him lead you gently to truth, which will envelop you and give you peace so deep and tranquil that you will return to the familiar world reluctantly.
******AND YET, you will be glad to look again upon the world. For you will bring the promise of the changes which the truth that goes with you will carry to the world.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How is this possible?
Because truth is true.
Happiness is what you are. So being happy means to be in your true natural state.
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