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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Healing Opportunity

Healing opportunity: 

to recognize the holiness of you is my only true function, and in this I arrive at my own light offered back to me through our encounter. It's a truly beautiful way to experience life, everyone offering a hidden recognition of my holiest self if only I commit to its awareness. A Course in Miracles tells us early on in the text that our function is to heal the mind from illusions, dispelling darkness with the reality of our light. Now, at this point in my life, I embrace this function fully, joyfully so...

and thank the world for this healing opportunity.

I love you all. 

~

Eric 

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Our Only Function

Our only function: 

it's a pretty lofty goal, recognizing ourselves as the light of the world and staying faithful only to that purpose. In fact this might sound way to much for us, beyond consideration even, yet A Course in Miracles states unequivocally that this is the reason we are here, and that it's actually easier than imagined, quite natural really - our only purpose is to be the light of the world. 

this is the function God assigned us.

to be our truest selves.

and of course this often seems to be the hardest thing for us to do. But this is because we've forgotten who we really are, mistaking ourselves for the littlest image that the ego can imagine and then attempting to enlarge it to the grander vision. This isn't to dismiss the things we do in life, our jobs might be vital in the service of others, or even bring us great joy in their performance. What we do is important, but it's never our true function - 

as that belongs to God alone.

so here it is, our function, a simple plan: 

continue everything as before, no changes in our lifestyle are really needed, and at every point of darkness, each desolate corner we encounter -  recognize the light of your own original innocence and extend it just a little. That's enough for now. The nature of light is illumination, it doesn't need direction, and there's no question to it's function. 

it just shines.

and so do you.

~

I love You.

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