Yes, God's Will for us is perfect happiness.
And He says to heal is to make happy.
So, it's important to understand that the Spirit's view of happiness is different from the ego's view of happiness.
The ego knows that you will be stuck to this world if you can be tricked into being happy in this world.
Because the ego says that happiness depends on a certain outcome.
And think about this, when we are growing up as children and teenagers,
most of us as children and teenagers are not completely happy.
But, some of us believe that happiness may come in the future.
If we have a certain kind of relationship, a certain kind of house, a certain kind of job.
So, the ego tells us to keep wishing for things in the future that will make us happy.
But, this is a world of fantasy and make believe.
As long as you keep pursuing goals of the world, you're always a bit dissatisfied.
Because the ego gives us a definition of happiness and tells us to persue the future in order to achieve the happiness.
But, I have found that happiness comes when I let go of all definitions.
That was the prayer of my heart.
I said to the Spirit, I don't know what true happiness is, please show me.
Please guide me.
So, you raise a very practical question.
Being busy at work and feeling unhappy at this busyness of work.
It brings you back more to go inside and honestly look at where is my happiness?
And most people do many things in this world because they believe they have to.
Most people work at jobs because they believe they have to work in order to survive.
But the teachings of Jesus are saying if you fulfill your purpose,
that everything that you need for your purpose will be given.
If we try to achieve an end in the future we must find the means.
If we try to achieve an end we must find the means to achieve the end.
But, by listening to the Spirit we learn that the means and the end are given together.
God would not give you a plan to wake up without giving you the means as well.
While we believe in the ego we go through thousands of compromises every day
And when we get into so many compromises we lose track of happiness.
We think, I should do this, I must do this, I must not let anybody down.
So, our mind is filled with all kinds of obligations and duties.
Because that's what life in this world seems to be, just piles of obligations.
And we've lost track of true freedom and true happiness.
So this is why we rely so deeply on guidance.
Because we're having to unlearn all these identity patterns.
Yeah, and each of us had very bright successful lives as judged by the world.
The engineer, the financial manager.
I don't know what to say for me cause I,
maybe I wasn't successful.
I was a failure at everything of this world.
But I got happy very quick when I realized that.
So, we have to have our lives redirected by the Spirit.
To what serves the whole.
Every single action and thought is given over to the Spirit to serve the whole.
And that's how our lives are today.
We are very happy.
We publish our happiness to the world.
Everyday.
As an invitation
to know that it's possible.
And to know that the steps are given in a very practical way.
It may take some attention and some discipline.
Just like it takes discipline to learn things in this world.
You'll go through a phase of discipline in learning peace of mind.
But it all works out very well.
We are called out of the thinking of the world.
And this is where A Course in Miracles helps us.
Jesus tells us that God did not create this world.
God did not create linear time.
God did not create the body.
So, we're working with everything that the ego has made.
And asking God to reinterpret everything in a new way.
And it's really very practical.
We learn to interpret everything from love.
From nonjudgement.
From forgiveness.
And we do have the power of interpretation.
We just have to keep practicing it.
But, the more that you practice it
the more natural it feels.
You feel, ohh, I can do this.
This is easier.
It's easier to forgive than to judge.
So, we've turned the corner.
And it's for everyone.
When we practice forgiveness, we're practicing helping everyone.
Cause, everyone is just reflecting our state of mind.