My Happiness

My happiness:

my happiness and function are one, lesson 66 of A Course in Miracles, and now several times through the workbook over the past few decades I find myself giving full attention to certain lessons that didn't quite standout to me before. It's not the that they weren't important or didn't have an impact, but, for whatever reason, they weren't the ones that lingered long after the lesson was done. 

and yet,

my happiness and function are one.

this seems most important to me now, vital, as I find myself struggling through a recent low point, depressed, and most definitely questioning my function in the world. The Course doesn't ask me to deny this, there's no bypassing here. I'm simply led to investigate the nature of my struggle, to examine where my emphasis has been - ego or spirit, fear or love, illusions or reality.

my true sense of happiness is independent of struggle, it's based on purpose and not achievement. That's where this lesson leads me, again, and maybe I just forgot it those first few times around. But I remember now, happiness is based completely on my function and that has been given from God. My function is salvation, yours and mine, as there's really no difference. 

so how do I achieve this? 

I don't.

I just live my life in full awareness that my only real purpose is to love, and that what appears to be a struggle is just life, happening in all of its complexities. My function is to love myself through it, all of it, no matter what appears. And should our paths converge along the way...

my function is to love you as well.

whatever's offered.

as if my happiness truly depends upon it.

I love you.

and that really does make me happy.

~

I love you, Eric 

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