The special relationship will remain, not as a source of pain and guilt, but as a source of joy and freedom. ... Joy characterizes peace. By this experience will you recognize that you have reached it. God asks you to be happy ... delay of joy is needless. God wills you perfect happiness now. Is it possible that this is not also your will? And is it possible that this is not also the will of your brothers? ... you are sad because you are not fulfilling your function as co-creator with God, and are therefore depriving yourself of joy. This is not Gods choice but yours. Sad, anxious, depressed, feeling guilty? When you are sad, know this need not be. Depression comes from a sense of being deprived of something you want and do not have. Remember that you are deprived of nothing except by your own decisions, and then decide otherwise. When you are anxious, realize that anxiety comes from the capriciousness of the ego, and know this need not be. You can be as vigilant against the egos dictates as for them. ... When you feel guilty, remember that the ego has indeed violated the laws of God, but you have not. Leave the sins of the ego to me. That is what Atonement is for. But until you change your mind about those whom your ego has hurt, the Atonement cannot release you. While you feel guilty your ego is in command, because only the ego can experience guilt. This need not be. ... Watch your mind for the temptations of the ego, and do not be deceived by it. It offers you nothing. When you have given up this voluntary dis-spiriting, you will see how your mind can focus and rise above fatigue and heal. God asks you to be happy ... delay of joy is needless. God wills you perfect happiness now. Is it possible that this is not also your will? And is it possible that this is not also the will of your brothers? ... The world becomes a place of joy, abundance, charity and endless giving. It is now so like to Heaven that it quickly is transformed into the light that it reflects. And so the journey which the Son of God began has ended in the light from which he came. ... God asks you to be happy ... Forgiveness (or love) paints a picture of a world where suffering is over, loss becomes impossible and anger makes no sense. Attack is gone, and madness has an end. What suffering is now conceivable? What loss can be sustained? ... God asks you to be happy ... The constancy of joy is a condition quite alien to the egos understanding ... a time of joy, and not of mourning ... Would you not willingly be free of misery, and learn again of joy? Can pain be part of peace, or grief of joy? Can fear and sickness enter in a mind where love and perfect holiness abide? ... God asks you to be happy ... Your holy relationship offers all this to you ... This is a year of joy, in which your listening will increase ... you are sad because you are not fulfilling your function as co-creator with God, and are therefore depriving yourself of joy. This is not Gods choice but yours. ... God asks you to be happy ... God, being Love, is also happiness. To fear Him is to be afraid of joy. ... The light that belongs to you is the light of joy. Radiance is not associated with sorrow. ... God asks you to be happy ... Receive His gift of joy and peace today, and He will thank you for your gift to Him ... I seek but what belongs to me in truth, And joy and peace are my inheritance. I seek but what belongs to me in truth. Gods gifts of joy and peace are all I want. ... God asks you to be happy ... This is a year of joy, in which your listening will increase ... The Holy Spirit will remain with the Sons of God, to bless their creations and keep them in the light of joy. ... look out from the endless wells of joy within ... God asks you to be happy ... Joy characterizes peace. By this experience will you recognize that you have reached it. ... try to experience the peace to which your reality entitles you. Sink into it and feel it closing around you. There may be some temptation to mistake these attempts for withdrawal, but the difference is easily detected. If you are succeeding, you will feel a deep sense of joy and an increased alertness, rather than a feeling of drowsiness and enervation God asks you to be happy... a time of joy, and not of mourning ... The special relationship will remain, not as a source of pain and guilt, but as a source of joy and freedom. ... Every minute and every second gives you a chance to save yourself. Do not lose these chances, not because they will not return, but because delay of joy is needless. God wills you perfect happiness now. Who needs but a smile, being as yet unready for more? ... A firm foundation is eternally upheld by truth, and love shines on it with the gentle smile and tender blessing it offers to its own. Here the unholy instant is exchanged in gladness for the holy one of safe return. Here is the way to true relationships held gently open, through which you and your brother walk together, leaving the ego thankfully behind, resting in the Everlasting Arms. Loves Arms are open to receive you, and give you peace forever. ... You smile in love and tenderness ... He will use every one of them for peace. Nor will one little smile or willingness to overlook the tiniest mistake be lost to anyone. ... A smile has come to lighten up your face. ... Without your smile, the world cannot be saved. While you are sad, the light that God Himself appointed as the means to save the world is dim and lusterless, and no one laughs .. And yet you look with Heavens smile upon your lips, and Heavens blessing on your sight. You will not see sin long. For in the new perception the mind corrects it when it seems to be seen, and it becomes invisible. Errors are quickly recognized and quickly given to correction, to be healed, not hidden. You will be healed of sin and all its ravages the instant that you give it no power ... Gods Son can smile at last ... smile on everyone ... Who needs but a smile, being as yet unready for more? God asks you to be happy ... :) God asks you to be happy ... ~ acim touch.dailymotion/video/xsd7f_mental-as-anything-live-it-up_music
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