A new year

New years often comes with new resolutions. While I'm not making a new years resolution out of it at all, I have decided that I need to focus more on the Course than I have in the past few years. I am reminded of that story about Helen Schucman meeting with a woman who said to her, "If you use what you are taking down you will be the happiest person in the world."

There are so many circumstances in my life that are less than ideal. I make all kinds of excuses for why I can't be happy. But I'm reminded of the advice that woman gave Helen Schucman. Maybe I can take that advice for myself. Maybe I can use the Course and be happy no matter what. Actually, that reminds me of something Kenneth Wapnick says on one of his tapes, that you can always be happy and at peace regardless of external circumstances. I've been thinking a lot about that statement lately.

Anyway, my lesson for today is: "God, being Love, is also happiness," and "I seek but what belongs to me in truth."