 We are going through the workbook lessons of A Course in Miracles. We are practicing our mind training day by day, practicing these lessons that Jesus has given us to clear our mind of all doubts, judgments, grievances, all debris, all thoughts and beliefs that would delay our homecoming and our remembrance of God. The Holy Instant is a miniature of eternity. And so we're following a pathway that is basically saying, let me guide you while you believe in linear time, while you believe in a world of opposites past and future. I want to guide you using the symbols that the ego made, which is all the symbols of time and space in the cosmos. And the Holy Spirit can use what the ego made to unwind your mind from the ego belief system and back, back, back, back, back, deep, deep, deep into the heart of love, which relates to this world in terms of forgiveness. Forgiveness is the idea that you can look upon the world calmly. You can look upon the world with God, with tranquility, with serenity. So we're going through these workbook lessons with devotion and practicing every day. And today we are on another review lesson. It's lesson 83, and it's from the Workbook Part 1 Review 2. Today, let us review these ideas. My only function is the one God gave me. I have no function but the one God gave me. This recognition releases me from all conflict because it means I cannot have conflicting goals. With one purpose only, I am always certain what to do, what to say, and what to think. All doubt must disappear as I acknowledge that my only function is the one God gave me. More specific applications of this idea might take these forms. My perception of this does not change my function. This does not give me a function other than the one God gave me. Let me not use this to justify a function God did not give me. My happiness and my function are one. All things that come from God are one. They come from oneness and must be received as one. Fulfilling my function is my happiness because both come from the same source. And I must learn to recognize what makes me happy if I would find happiness. Some useful forms for specific applications of this idea are This cannot separate my happiness from my function. The oneness of my happiness and my function remains wholly unaffected by this. Nothing including this can justify the delusion of happiness apart from my function. So again, our two main idea reviews today from lesson 65 and lesson 66. My only function is the one God gave me. My happiness and my function are one. To back up and give us booster support for this beautiful review today, I went into the Course in Miracles search program and I typed in the word happiness. Very simple. I'm very simple with these things. So that's what I'm looking for today from the workbook from Jesus to support the review lessons. Considering that the second review lesson is my happiness and my function are one. So we're looking in here at happiness. Text chapter 5 introduction to heal is to make happy. Also from the introduction in text chapter 5, to be wholehearted, you must be happy. Text chapter 7 section 11, a son of God is happy only when he knows he is with God. That is the only environment in which you can be happy. Heaven. From text chapter 8 section 1, your past learning must have taught you the wrong things, simply because it has not made you happy. Chapter 9 section 1, the belief that you must have the impossible in order to be happy is totally at variance with the principle of creation. Because creation is spirit and time and space and form, those are the impossible. The belief that you must have the impossible in order to be happy is totally at variance with the principle of creation. In this word we have been taught that it's good to possess and own and collect and control. And this is saying no, that's all impossible. And eternal love is your natural inheritance and love of God is natural. And that's what creation is. God creates in spirit. God creates eternally. God is eternal life. So anything that is sought for that is not eternal life is unhappy by definition. Chapter 9 section 1, God could not will that happiness depended on what you could never have. You cannot change laws you did not make and the laws of happiness were created for you, not by you. God wills you perfect happiness now. If you choose to see yourself as unloving, you will not be happy. You cannot be happy unless you do what you truly will, which you will truly. And you cannot change this because it is immutable. The ego believes that to accomplish its goal is happiness. But the ego is a death wish and so the ego believes that to accomplish death is happiness. Yeah, that's why it's not to be believed. Chapter 11 section 5. But it is given you to know that God's function is yours and happiness cannot be found apart from your joint will. That's a beautiful supporting idea for my happiness and my function are one. Yeah, that's our review lesson today. Recognize only that the ego's goal, which you have pursued so diligently, has merely brought you fear and it becomes difficult to maintain that fear is happiness. Chapter 13 section 2, this course has explicitly stated that its goal for you is happiness and peace. Chapter 13 section 7. Your first exchange of what you made for what you want is the exchange of nightmares for the happy dreams of love. Then we go to chapter 14 section 2, the happy learner. The Holy Spirit needs a happy learner in whom his mission can be happily accomplished. You who are steadfastly devoted to misery must first recognize that you are miserable and not happy. The Holy Spirit cannot teach without this contrast for you believe that misery is happiness. This has so confused you that you have undertaken to learn to do what you can never do, believing that unless you learn it, you will not be happy. He says on text chapter 14 section 2, learn to be a happy learner. If you would be a happy learner, you must give everything you have learned to the Holy Spirit to be unlearned for you. The happy learner meets the conditions of learning here as he meets the conditions of knowledge in the kingdom. The happy learner cannot feel guilty about learning. You do not want either alone or without both you do not see yourself as a whole and therefore happy. Yet you are whole only in your guiltlessness and only in your guiltlessness can you be happy. Whenever the pain of guilt seems to attract you, remember that if you yield to it, you are deciding against your happiness and will not learn how to be happy. You are guilty or guiltless, bound or free, unhappy or happy. It is the natural result of choosing right, a testing to your happiness that comes from choosing to be free of guilt. The joy of learning that darkness has no power over the Son of God is the happy lesson the Holy Spirit teaches and would have you teach with him. Also from chapter 14, section 3, the power that God has given to his Son is his and nothing else can his Son see or choose to look upon without imposing on himself the penalty of guilt in place of all the happy teaching the Holy Spirit would gladly offer him. Unlearn isolation through his loving guidance and learn of all the happy communication that you have thrown away but could not lose. He would teach you nothing except how to be happy. The happy learners of the Atonement become the teachers of innocence. That is the right of all that God created. Do not withhold this glad acknowledgement for hope of happiness and release from suffering of every kind lie in it. Learn of his happiness which is yours. It is so beautiful and so clean and free of guilt that nothing but happiness is there. Begin to practice the Holy Spirit's use of time as a teaching aid to happiness and peace. And then from chapter 16 for love ask only that you be happy and will give you everything that makes for happiness. Chapter 17, section 2, nothing that you remember that made your heart sing with joy has ever brought you even a little part of the happiness this sight will bring you. The Holy sight of Christ. Chapter 17, section 4, God established his relationship with you to make you happy and nothing you do that does not share his purpose can be real. Chapter 17, section 4 again, because of his reason for creating his relationship with you, the function of relationships forever became forever to make happy. For nothing God created is apart from happiness and nothing God created but would extend happiness as its creator did. Text chapter 17, section 5, and as the unholy relationship is the continuing hymn of hate and praise of its maker, so is the holy relationship a happy song of praise to the redeemer of relationships. Chapter 18, section 2, I said before that the first change before dreams disappear is that your dreams of fear are changed to happy dreams. It continues, it will be a happy dream and one which you will share with all who come within your sight. Chapter 18, section 2, in your relationship the Holy Spirit has gently laid the real world, the world of happy dreams from which waking is so easy and so natural. The title of chapter 18, section 5 is the happy dream. Happy dreams come true not because they are dreams but only because they are happy. It will become the happy dream through which he can spread joy to thousands on thousands who believe that love is fear, not happiness. When peace comes at last to those who wrestle with temptation and fight against the giving into sin, when the light comes at last into the mind given to contemplation or when the goal is finally achieved by anyone, it always comes with just one happy realization, I need do nothing. Chapter 18, section 8, blow on it lightly and with happy laughter and it will fall away. Chapter 19, section 4, the peace he lay deep within you and your brother will quietly extend to every aspect of your life, surrounding you and your brother with glowing happiness and the calm awareness of complete protection. There is a hush in heaven, a happy expectancy, a little pause of gladness and acknowledgement of the journey's end. Chapter 19, section 4, think of your happiness as everyone offers you witness of the end of sin and shows you that its power is gone forever. So it just goes on and on, this is all such for happiness. He's giving us a question for the day to move forward. It's from text, chapter 20, section 3. Did you meet your brother with joy to bless the Son of God and give him thanks for all the happiness that he held out for you to you? That's a good one. That's a good one to carry through the day. Did you meet your brother with joy to bless the Son of God and give him thanks for all the happiness that he held out to you? He's just saying, be joyful, be gleeful, have all this abundant love in your heart shine and share with everyone and everything today without exception. How sweet. Oh, beautiful. Well, I have a friend of mine from many, many years ago. We started traveling around the United States together in 1992. And her name is Donna Marie Kerry and she has an album called Real Love and I thought I would, you know, play some beautiful songs from that album today. For our beautiful lessons today, our review lessons, I thought I would start out with willing to open my eyes. Thank you. Thank you to Donna Marie Kerry from her album Real Love. One, two, three, four. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. So we've got beautiful review lessons for today. Yes, my only function is the one God gave me and my happiness and my function are one. And I just feel so grateful to be with you sharing these beautiful reviews, beautiful ideas. You know, it's unwinding us from our belief in the world, from personhood, from all our beliefs of gain and loss, all our beliefs of attachments or positions of ownership. It's just carrying us into an experience of divine providence that is a creation of God. We are always divinely provided for as we were divinely created. And it takes the trials and the tribulations of believing in causation in the world away. We start to realize that we're just witnessing our state of mind, always witnessing our state of mind. And happiness is our function. So we talk about forgiveness a lot. We talk about non-judgment. And now we're talking about happiness, happiness. My happiness and my function are one. And that is the glory of following the Christ within as we shine and share our light, the light of Christ. It's the answer to any seeming problem, any seeming difficult situation, any seeming challenge. The light of Christ is there for us, shining through us so that we can teach what we would learn. We can demonstrate, teaching his demonstration, teaching by our happiness that we are healed, we are whole. We have been redeemed, we'll say. We have been saved in the light of Christ. And that is so beautiful. Not a sense of a personal saviorship, but a sense of having a mind that's free of guilt. Having a mind that's free of suffering, free of judgment. No small gift indeed. So thank you for being with me in this joyful celebration. We're going through the workbook lessons of the Course in Miracles and right now we're rolling. We're just made it up to 83 and we're rolling day by day here and just enjoying all the light and love and laughter of this journey. Much love. Have a beautiful day, beloveds.