In this world, even though we’re all one with each other, and part of the same dynamic Love Intelligence, we still can’t make anyone happy – not really. Others cannot make us happy either – although we often feel convinced that they can.
It’s very easy to get deluded into thinking someone or something outside of ourselves can make us happy, but happiness doesn’t really come until we give up that concept.
Nonetheless, we can SHARE happiness. Throughout our day we have the opportunity to be loving and supportive to others and we can take the opportunity, out of the generosity and givingness of our heart, and make the most of it. When we share happiness it makes our own heart even lighter.
If we’re open to it, and ask the Higher Holy Spirit Self, we’ll be guided to the ways we can share that will actually be helpful. I find that the very best ideas that come to me are always just that – ideas that come to me.
I recognize the difference between ideas that I have at the level of the personality, and ideas that are given to me by the Higher Holy Spirit Self. They have very different energetics. Learning to recognize the difference is quite helpful. It’s as if the Higher Mind’s ideas are more clean, clear, shiny and sparkly.
I like to ask for ideas of how to be helpful, rather than just figure them out. Whenever I ask for guidance the quality of the idea is so much more enjoyable than the one I figured out.
Being willing and available to share happiness can be like a spiritual hobby.
It’s a kind of spiritual gardening. In our spiritual garden we can pull the weeds and plant seeds of happiness.
It’s really very rewarding to plant seeds of future happiness for people without even letting them know what we’re doing or what we’ve done.
This is how Spirit operates – always planting seeds for our happiness.
And this is precisely why judging things as not good does not lead to happiness. The seeds have been planted, and the time for harvest is always now.
One of the primary ways to harvest is to share with others. As A Course in Miracles tells us: To have, give all to all.
To have Love, share Love.
To have happiness, share happiness.
Let’s put Spirit in charge and look for more ways to be generous of heart and share our happiness to increase it.
Forgiveness Workshop tomorrow! Come join me to have a healing. The workshop is free, but you do have to register. I hope to see you soon. Please share with others.
Are you ready to stop playing small? I’m offering an online retreat that starts on September 5. It’s one of the most effective and successful things I’ve done. People repeat it 3 and 4 times because they get so much out of it. If you feel like you might be playing small in some area of your life – this could be your breakthrough! Plan for your success and we’ll do it together – click here to learn more about the Stop Playing Small Online Retreat in September. It’s on Early Bird Special right now!
Latest ACIM PODCAST EPISODE: my topic is You ARE the Treasure: Why God Values You Above Everything Else. Exploring “The Treasure of God” from A Course in Miracles Chapter 8, I share the profound revelation that WE are God’s only treasure – not money or worldly things, but us. Through Jesus’s retelling of the prodigal son story and my reflection on how movies like The Matrix, Star Wars, and Lord of the Rings all feature “savior of the world” themes, I realized we’re all meant to be saviors through joining with the Holy Spirit and seeing Christ in everyone. The key to moving from confusion to clarity is accepting that EVERYONE is equally valuable to God – from the worst person imaginable to Mother Teresa – and understanding that God’s will is our will, there’s no separation. Our function is to create and extend love in whatever form that takes, whether cooking a meal or teaching a class, and when we accept our true value as God’s treasure, we can finally live in the peace and freedom that is our birthright!
