Welcome to Active Meditation,
The Course in Miracles,
Lesson 101.
God's will for me is perfect happiness.
Today we will continue with the theme of happiness.
This is a key idea in understanding what salvation means.
You still believe salvation asks for suffering as penance for your sins.
This is not so.
Yet,
You must think it so while you believe that sin is real and that God's child can sin.
If sin is real,
Then punishment is just and cannot be escaped.
Salvation thus cannot be purchased but through suffering.
If sin is real,
Then happiness must be an illusion,
For sin and happiness cannot both be true.
The sinful warrant only death and pain.
And it is this they escort.
For the sinful know death and pain waits for them and will seek them out and find them.
Somewhere,
Sometime,
In some form,
That evens the account they owe to God.
The sinful would escape God in their fear.
And yet,
God will pursue and the sinful cannot escape.
If sin is real,
Salvation must be pain.
Pain is the cost of sin,
And suffering can never be escaped if sin is real.
If sin is real,
Salvation must be feared,
For it will kill but slowly,
Taking everything away before it grants the welcome boon of death to victims who are little more than bones.
Before salvation is appeased,
Salvation's wrath is boundless,
Merciless,
But wholly just.
Who would seek out such savage punishment?
Who would not flee salvation and attempt,
In every way they can,
To drown the voice which offers salvation to them?
Why would they try to listen and accept salvation's offering?
If sin is real,
Its offering is death,
And meted out in cruel form to match the vicious wishes in which sin is born.
If sin is real,
Salvation has become your bitter enemy,
The curse of God upon you who have crucified God's trial.
You need the practice periods today.
The exercises teach sin is not real.
All that you believe must come from sin will never happen,
For it has no cause.
Accept atonement with an open mind,
An open mind which cherishes no lingering belief that you have made a devil of God's child.
There is no sin.
We practice with this thought as often as we can today,
Because it is the basis for today's idea.
Let's practice.
Say to yourself,
Repeat in your mind,
There is no sin.
I'll be silent.
There is no sin.
God's will for you is perfect happiness,
Because there is no sin,
And suffering is causeless.
Joy is just,
And pain is but the sign you have misunderstood yourself.
Fear not the will of God,
But turn to it in confidence that the will of God will set you free from all the consequences sin has wrought in feverish imagination.
Say,
God's will for me is perfect happiness.
There is no sin.
It has no consequence.
So should you start your practice experience,
And then attempt again to find the joy these thoughts will introduce into your mind.
Repeat after me,
God's will for me is perfect happiness.
There is no sin.
It has no consequence.
Ponder on this.
There is no sin.
There is no sin.
God's will for me is perfect happiness.
There is no sin.
It has no consequence.
There is no sin.
There is no sin.
If these five minutes gladly to remove the heavy load you lay upon yourself,
With the insane belief that sin is real,
Is real.
Today,
Escape from madness.
You are set on freedom's road,
And now today's idea brings wings to speed you on,
And hope to go still faster to the waiting goal of peace.
There is no sin.
Remember this today,
And tell yourself as often as you can,
God's will for me is perfect happiness.
This is the truth,
Because there is no sin.
God's will for me is perfect happiness.
This is the truth,
Because there is no sin.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
