Lesson 220:

I am not a body. I am free.

For I am still as God created me…

There is no peace except the peace of God.

I am not a body. I am free.

For I am still as God created me…

The Course tells us in Chapter 17 of the text, that God established His relationship with us to make us happy, and that nothing we do that does not share His purpose can be real. Also, that the purpose God ascribed to anything is its only function. And furthermore, that because of His reason for creating His relationship with us, the function of relationship (that means all relationship of any kind), became forever “to make happy”. And nothing else... To fulfill this function we must relate to our creations as God does to his. And nothing God created is apart from happiness, and nothing God created but would extend happiness as its Creator did. So, whatever does not fulfill this function cannot be real. Accepting the Atonement for ourselves is the same as saying we accept the only the truth is true. And nothing else is true…

Now since in this illusive world, we can’t actually create, we are only true to our relationship when we are ‘making happy”. Forgiveness is the constant restorative always at the ready for the return to peace and joy, if we are but willing to see things differently; give up our ‘specialnes’ in favor of the ‘peace of God’. That’s all. This can be done by seeing all relationship through the eyes of peace, by seeing with the Holy Spirit part of our minds. We then merely soften our eyes at seeming differences and let vision show us what peace would have us see instead.

We merely allow the Holy Spirit to transform our ‘special relationships’ into ‘holy ones’ with everyone and everything. We simply turning our faithlessness in favor of perfect peace, when we choose the peace of God be seen in our relationships… Then we place our faith in our brother, that he will do his part perfectly.

Faith arises from the Holy Spirit’s perception, and is the sign we share it with Him. Faith is the gift we offer God’s Son, through Him. And as such, it is wholly acceptable to both Father and Son, in reality; and therefore, it is immediately offered wholly to our Self… This is the Holy Relationship, which the peace of God makes possible…

Choosing the peace of God, is offering a clean slate to the Holy Spirit to write upon it what God would have us learn. And because of our relationship with Him, which was created to ‘make happy’, it stands to reason, that happiness only, could be God’s Will for us. Yes?!

So, we can lean back in the peace of God and let the Holy Spirit place meaning and correction and joy on all we thought we knew… paving our way to walk together on the path to re-member-ing Heaven and the peace of God…