Happiness is an attribute of love. It cannot be apart from it, nor can it be
experienced where love is not. Love has no limits, being everywhere. And
therefore joy is everywhere as well. Yet can the mind deny that this is so,
believing there are gaps in love where sin can enter, bringing pain instead of
joy.
This strange belief would limit happiness by redefining love as limited, and
introducing opposition in what has no limit and no opposite. Fear is associated
then with love, and its results become the heritage of minds that think what
they have made is real. These images, with no reality in truth, bear witness to
the fear of God, forgetting being Love He must be joy.
This basic error we will try again to bring to truth today, and teach ourselves:
"God, being Love, is also happiness.
To fear Him is to be afraid of joy."
Begin your longer exercises for today with
this association, which corrects the false belief that God is fear. It also
emphasizes happiness belongs to you because of what He is.
Allow this one correction to be placed within your minds each waking hour today.
Then welcome all the happiness it brings, as truth replaces fear, and joy
becomes what you expect to take the place of pain. God being Love, it will be
given you. Bolster this expectation frequently throughout the day, and quiet all
your fears with this assurance, kind and wholly true:
"God, being Love, is also happiness.
And it is happiness I seek today.
I cannot fail, because I seek the truth."
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