April 13, 2021
Lesson 103 –
God, being Love, is also happiness.
What do we feel right now? Happiness? Love? Joy? Perhaps we’re not quite there right now. Maybe we’re feeling fear. Maybe we’re feeling limited, broken, or inadequate – maybe even lost. These feelings are common, particularly for those who have denied their natural state of being. When the world tells us we are unhappy and seems to throw even more unhappiness at us, we feel the burden. And every circumstance we find ourselves in seems to emphasize some aspect of misery. Under these circumstances we most certainly feel less than happy even when we find some little glimmer of happiness peeking out behind some corner we can’t quite see. Perhaps we can stop a moment and have another look.
Happiness is an attribute of love. It cannot be apart from it. Nor can it be experienced where love is not. Love has no limits, being everywhere. And therefore joy is everywhere as well. Yet can the mind deny that this is so, believing there are gaps in love where sin can enter, bringing pain instead of joy. This strange belief would limit happiness by redefining love as limited, and introducing opposition in what has no limit and no opposite. W-pI.103.1:1-7
If we are One with God as the Course teaches, that tells us something about our true nature. Just entertain the thought that God is Love and happiness for a moment. Just holding that idea in our mind may help us see ourselves a bit differently. We have become so accustomed to considering ourselves limited and inadequate – yes, sinful – that we have trouble seeing ourselves any better. The truth is we are as holy as God for we are One with God. How could we be anything less than holy when we are One with God. Perhaps it is time we consider a change in how we perceive ourselves and each other. Perhaps it’s time to consider a correction to our perception of ourselves.
Allow this one correction to be placed within your mind each waking hour today. 2 Then welcome all the happiness it brings as truth replaces fear, and joy becomes what you expect to take the place of pain. 3 God, being Love, it will be given you. 4 Bolster this expectation frequently throughout the day, and quiet all your fears with this assurance, kind and wholly true: W-pI.103.3:1-4
This is not a daunting task. We do not have to do this alone. We have all we need within us to make this shift. But it’s even easier than that because Spirit within us will do the heavy lifting. Spirit asks us to be just a little willing to allow this transformation to begin. Just realize we are One with God, so we are Love, as God is. Therefore, we are happiness just as God is happiness. This transformation is simply a return to our own awareness of who we really are. God never saw us any other way, even though we have been taught and believed otherwise. Today, right now, let’s take that step and make the correction in our thought that God is not love or happiness. Be \open to the correction. A shift will come gently flowing and rising up within us and a seemingly new world will appear around us. I think we’re ready, so let go and let it be so.
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