“Be not content with future happiness. It has no meaning, and is not your just reward.”

When I read this from A Course in Miracles, Chapter 26, it gave me pause. How many of us are living for someday?

The Illusion of Future Joy

The Course tells us future happiness is meaningless. Why? Because there is no future—there is only the “now” moment. The future and the past don’t actually exist.

Yet we settle for future happiness that will never come. We think:

• “When I finish this project, then I’ll be happy”
• “When I have that spiritual career, then I’ll feel fulfilled”
• “When I’m more qualified, then I can serve”

In ACIM, Jesus is promising us we can learn through joy instead of through pain—if we put our mind under His guidance.

Why We Delay Our Happiness

Here’s the truth: We don’t believe we can be happy and joyful right now. So we settle for a fantasy of future contentment.

The Course says delay is senseless. “The reasoning that would maintain effects of present cause must be delayed until a future time is merely a denial that consequence and cause must come as one.”

Translation? Your happiness is available NOW.  Why delay?

Breaking Free from the Waiting Game

“The Holy Spirit’s purpose now is yours. Should not His happiness be yours as well?”

This is the shift we make in Masterful Living – from waiting for happiness to claiming it now. Because every moment we delay our joy, we’re denying the truth of who we are.

Our Practice for Today

Stop putting your happiness on hold. Ask yourself:

• What am I waiting for before I allow myself to be happy?
• What future condition have I made my joy dependent on?
• Am I willing to be happy now, without those conditions?

The Light Workers of the world are being called to demonstrate joy NOW, not someday.

Your happiness isn’t in the future—it’s in this holy instant.

I’ll claim mine, you claim yours, and the whole world benefits.  Sweet!

In my Quantum Counseling Training Intensive, the main thing we work on is eliminating worthiness issues so that people can live their calling, help more people, be more prosperous and share their gifts and talents in ways that are profoundly healing to themselves and others.

My next Quantum Counseling Training Intensive begins October 31.

If you’re feeling that “I can’t stand this another day” sensation… if you’re done waiting to be ready… October 31st might be your moment.

This intensive training is for you if:

• you have an interest in seeing if spiritual counseling is a possible career for you
• you’d like to improve your counseling and compassionate listening skills
• you’d just like to build your confidence and Self-esteem
• you’d like to increase your intuition
• you’d like to get continuing education or licensing units

If you feel called to transform lives (including your own), trust that calling. This isn’t about learning more techniques. It’s about healing what’s really in the way.  Our certified Spiritual Counselors are available for FREE Exploratory Calls to help you determine if my Quantum Counseling Training Intensive aligns with your spiritual path. Your heart knows the answer.

By the way, if you’re a professional who needs to earn Continuing Education or Licensing Units, we can help you with that! Get your requirements and have a very valuable training and deep personal healing too!

Your breakthrough is waiting.

NEW ACIM PODCAST EPISODE:  In this episode, Why Punishment Never Works (And What Does) I shared one of the most transformative teachings from A Course in Miracles that changed my life: there is no sin, only mistakes that need correction, not punishment. Working with Chapter 19’s section on “The Unreality of Sin,” I explain how I used to be deeply attracted to punishment – thinking people (including myself) should be punished for their “sins” – until I discovered that punishment is actually guilt’s way of keeping sin real and protecting it. I share how the ego brings sin to fear demanding punishment, when actually every mistake is just a call for love, and how I learned to replace the word “sin” with “tactical error” to remind myself that correction and compassion heal while punishment only perpetuates suffering. This shift freed me from my own patterns of self-punishment including alcohol abuse, because when I stopped seeing others as sinners deserving punishment, my own unconscious guilt dissolved.