October 8, 2019
What do we think will ultimately make us happy and joyful? We have devised a way of thinking that tells us happiness and joy are outside of us and we must find it. We will do almost anything to find that which we seek outside ourselves. Yet, we still haven’t found a lasting source for the happiness and joy we are seeking. Perhaps we are looking for something that appears different than we think it should. Or, perhaps we are looking in the wrong place. We are stubborn enough to keep looking in all the wrong places when we’ve decided where we thing it is.
Minds that are joined and recognize they are, can feel no guilt. For they cannot attack, and they rejoice that this is so, seeing their safety in this happy fact. Their joy is in the innocence they see. And thus they seek for it, because it is their purpose to behold it and rejoice. Everyone seeks for what will bring them joy as they define it. It is not the aim, as such, that varies. Yet it is the way in which the aim is seen that makes the choice of means inevitable, and beyond the hope of change unless the aim is changed. And then the means are chosen once again, as what will bring rejoicing is defined another way and sought for differently. T-25.IV.1:1-8
The Course tells us many times to try seeing differently. We often are looking for less than we have, missing the beauty and fullness of what is already within us. Since we are created whole, unlimited and divine, we have the abundance of Heaven within us for our choosing. It is merely a matter of opening our eyes to what our Creator has provided for us and set for our use. But we must be willing to allow our minds to awaken to what is within us and how to access it. While on this journey we have perception to help us find the way to what we are seeking. Perception’s basic law could be said, “You will rejoice at what you see because you see it to rejoice.” We need to learn how to see to see we already have what we are looking for!
We have another world where rest and peace rule. It is ours for the choosing. And once we choose it, we can bring it to all those who are tired of the world they have grown weary of but refuse to let go of. Let the light of the holy world within you shine brightly as a beacon to others. We need do nothing more than accept it and let it be. The ones we travel with will eventually see its light and then find it within themselves, for it is a shared world of holiness that we find in the realization of our Oneness with all Creation. We bring it with us to all the weary eyes and tired hearts that seem to have been seeking endlessly for peace, happiness and joy. In this light we stand in quiet, in innocence and wholly unafraid. The rest we find will extend from us so our peace can never fall away and leave us homeless again. We who offer peace to everyone have found a home in Heaven the world cannot destroy. For it is large enough to hold the world within its peace.
In you is all of Heaven. Every leaf that falls is given life in you. Each bird that ever sang will sing again in you. And every flower that ever bloomed has saved its perfume and its loveliness for you. What aim can supersede the Will of the One and of Us, that Heaven be restored to them for whom it was created as their only home? Nothing before and nothing after it. No other place; no other state nor time. Nothing beyond nor nearer. Nothing else. In any form. This can you bring to all the world, and all the thoughts that entered it and were mistaken for a little while. How better could your own mistakes be brought to truth than by your willingness to bring the light of Heaven with you, as you walk beyond the world of darkness into light? T-25.IV.5:1-12
The Course teaches us we are the light of the world. At first this idea may seem daunting. But look within yourself. Look beyond the inadequacy you may feel and allow Spirit within to reveal the truth to you. This truth is already yours. It always has been. Let go of the idea of littleness you have so identified with all this time. Let Oneness reveal the Grandeur of all that is true within you. Return to the awareness of who you really are and find yourself home in Heaven even as you are still a little while in thus world.
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