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.