You do not want to suffer. You may think it buys you something, and may still believe a little that it buys you what you want. Yet this belief is surely shaken now, at least enough to let you question it, and to suspect it really makes no sense. It has not gone as yet, but lacks the roots that once secured it tightly to the dark and hidden secret places of your mind.
Today we try to loose its weakened hold still further. And to realize that pain is purposeless, without a cause, and with no power to accomplish anything. It cannot purchase anything at all. It offers nothing, and does not exist. And everything you think it offers you is lacking in existence like itself. You have been slave to nothing. Be you free today to join the happy Will of God.
For several days we will continue to devote our longer practice periods to exercises planned to help you reach the happiness God's Will has placed in you. Here is your home, and here your safety is. Here is your peace, and here there is no fear. Here is salvation. Here is rest at last.
Begin the longer practice periods with this acceptance of God's Will for you:
I share God's Will for happiness for me, and I accept it as my function now.
Then seek this function deep within your mind, for it is there, awaiting but your choice. You cannot fail to find it when you learn it is your choice, and that you share God's Will.
Be happy, for your only function here is happiness. You have no need to be less loving to God's Son than He Whose Love created him as loving as Himself. Besides these hourly five minute rests, pause frequently today to tell yourself that you have now accepted happiness as your one function. And be sure that you are joining with God's Will in doing this.
✨ Summary & practice
You do not want to suffer, even if you still sometimes believe suffering buys you something. This belief is now shaken enough for you to question it. Today, you try to release its grip by recognizing that pain is purposeless, causeless, and powerless. It offers nothing; it does not exist. You have been the slave of nothing. Be free today to join the joyful Will of God. You share His Will for your happiness.
For several days, the lessons are designed to help you reach the happiness God has placed within you. There is your home, there is your safety. There is your peace, where there is no fear. There is salvation. There is, at last, rest. Seek this function deep within your mind, for it is there, waiting only for your choice. You cannot fail to find it once you learn it is your choice, and that you share God’s Will.
Lesson 101 declared that happiness is God’s Will. Lesson 102 takes the next step: recognize that you share this Will. It is not that God wants your happiness despite you, it is that God wants your happiness with you. Lessons 103–105 continue this celebration: God is happiness (103), you seek what truly belongs to you (104), and the peace and joy of God are yours (105).
Today, begin each practice period by saying: “I share God’s Will for happiness for me, and I accept it as my function now.” Then seek this function deep within your mind. Do not look for it in the outside world, do not seek it in circumstances. It is within you, waiting. If a thought of sadness or pain arises, say to it: “You are not my function. My function is happiness, and I choose it now.”
You share God’s desire for you: perfect happiness. Nothing less will satisfy you.
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