Just as God’s Son completes his Father, so your part in it completes
your Father’s plan. Salvation must reverse the mad belief in separate
thoughts and separate bodies which lead separate lives and go their
separate ways. One function shared by separate minds unites them in one
purpose, for each one is equally essential to them all.
God’s Will for you is perfect happiness. Why should you choose to go
against His Will? The part that He has saved for you to take in working
out His plan is given you that you might be restored to what He wills.
This part is as essential to His plan as to your happiness. Your joy must
be complete to let His plan be understood by those to whom He sends
you. They will see their function in your shining face, and hear God
calling to them in your happy laugh.
You are indeed essential to God’s plan. Without your joy His joy is
incomplete. Without your smile the world cannot be saved. While you are
sad the light which God Himself appointed as the means to save the world
is dim and lusterless. And no-one laughs because all laughter can but
echo yours.
You are indeed essential to God’s plan. Just as your light increases
every light that shines in Heaven, so your joy on earth calls to all
minds to let their sorrows go, and take their place beside you in God’s
plan. God’s messengers are joyous, and their joy heals sorrow and
despair. They are the proof that God wills perfect happiness for all who
will accept their Father’s gifts as theirs.
We will not let ourselves be sad today. For if we do, we fail to take
the part that is essential to God’s plan, as well as to our vision.
Sadness is the sign that you would play another part, instead of what
has been assigned to you by God. Thus do you fail to show the world how
great the happiness He wills for you. And so you do not recognize that
it is yours.
Today we will attempt to understand joy is our function here. If you are
sad your part is unfulfilled, and all the world is thus deprived of joy,
along with you. God asks that you be happy, so the world can see how
much He loves His Son, and wills no sorrow rises to abate his
joy; no fear besets him to disturb his peace.
You are God’s messenger today. You bring His happiness to all you look
upon; His peace to everyone who looks on you, and sees His message in
your happy face. We will prepare ourselves for this today, in our five
minute practice periods by feeling happiness arise in us according to
our Father’s Will and ours.
Begin the exercises with the thought today’s idea contains. Then realize
your part is to be happy. Only this is asked of you or anyone who wants
to take his place among God’s messengers. Think what this means. You have
indeed been wrong in your belief that sacrifice is asked. You but
receive according to God’s plan, and never lose or sacrifice or die.
Now let us try to find that joy which proves to us and all the world
God’s Will for us. It is your function that you find it here, and that
you find it now. For this you came. Let this one be the day that you
succeed! Look deep within you, undismayed by all the little thoughts and
foolish goals you pass as you ascend to meet the Christ in you.
He will be there. And you can reach Him now. What could you rather look
upon in place of Him Who waits that you may look on Him? What little
thought has power to hold you back? What foolish goal can keep you from
success when He Who calls to you is God Himself? He will be there. You
are essential to His plan. You are His messenger today. And you must find
what He would have you give.
Do not forget the idea for today between your longer practice periods.
It is your Self Who calls to you today. And it is Him you answer every
time you tell yourself you are essential to God’s plan for the salvation
of the world.