I am currently in a review period of A Course In Miracles. My two lessons to review today are: God's will for me is perfect happiness...and...I share God's will for perfect happiness for me. I love this idea. God's will for me is perfect happiness. He never wills His Son to be in pain. All that God wills is perfect happiness. This seems to be the opposite of what I understand of many organized religions, in particular, Christianity. Some of the Christians that I know walk around calling themselves sinners and looking at other people as sinners and assuming that God wants to punish us all for our sins. The Course teaches something different. It states that God does not see us as sinners that he wants to punish. He does, however, see us make errors that he wishes to correct. That's called growth.
But I digress. I need to stay on topic! God's will for me is perfect happiness. If the creator of the universe and the most powerful being in the universe wills perfect happiness for me, I will gladly and willingly accept it!
I share God's will for happiness for me. This is a powerful statement and a great thing to remind myself all day. Of course I want happiness. Duh! How could I forget that? And yet I often do. There is something called the ego which I often identify with and the ego does not necessarily want me to be happy. It wants me to have too much to drink and make a fool of myself and then spend an entire day beating myself up for it. It wants me to speak before I think and screw up an opportunity and spend a week kicking myself in the ass over it. When we spend time berating ourselves for bad choices, we go into a downward spiral where it is impossible to grow. Today I own the statement "I share God's will for happiness for me". May I spread that happiness to all people with whom I have conversations today. May I realize that there are so many wonderful people, beings and situations in my life that bring me happiness. May I recognize that there are so many people in the world going through situations that try their ability to remain happy which far exceed any situations I am currently in.
God's will for me is perfect happiness and I share this will. May it be so.
Beautiful entry, inspiring..interesting the obsessive ways we beat ourselves up. It's our ego right? The ego is always trying to find a way for us to feel defeated even after something great happens or we have had fun, our natural state is to spiral down and find some negativity - so very silly really. Thanks for writing Andrew I am looking forward to following along with your journey lv, k.
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