Today we will review these ideas: W-65 and W-66
1. W-65. “My only function is the one God gave me.”
2. I have no function but the one God gave me. I
²Recognizing this frees me from all conflict, because it means I cannot have conflicting goals.
³With one single purpose, I am always certain of what to do, what to say, and what to think.
⁴All doubt disappears when I acknowledge that my only function is the one God gave me. II
3. More specific applications of this idea might be:
²My perception of this does not change my function.III
³This does not assign me a different function than the one God gave me.IV
⁴Let me not use this to justify a function God did not give me.V
4. W-66. “My happiness and my function are one.”
5. All things that come from God are one. VI
²They come from Oneness, and must be received as one. VII
³Fulfilling my function is my happiness, because both come from the same Source. VIII
⁴And to find happiness I must learn to recognize what makes me happy.
6. Some helpful variations for applying this idea more specifically are:
²This cannot separate my happiness from my function.
³The oneness of my happiness and my function is in no way affected by this.
⁴Nothing, not even this, can justify the illusion that I can be happy by failing to fulfill my function.IX
I The function of anything is assigned by its creator. I cannot have a function different from the one assigned to me by Him Who created me. It is obvious that I did not create myself—though I sometimes have the temptation to believe it, so great is my confusion—therefore, I cannot assign myself my own function.
I do not now remember Who created me, how He created me, or why He created me, but those questions must have an answer, because I exist. The only thing I know for certain is that when I have tried to assign myself my own function, I have failed, for I have not achieved my purpose; I have not succeeded in being happy. Now I want to try something different.
Simplifying is always good, and here I am told that I have only one function. At least this is simple and clear. Moreover, I am also told that my function is to be happy and to make my brothers happy—that is, to heal them—because I am also told that to heal is to make happy (T-5.I.1:1). Then, if my function is so simple and so aligned with my deepest desires, why do I not set about it immediately?
II This too is obvious. If I focus all my efforts on doing one single thing, my mind will not be scattered, and I will experience no conflict, for thus I will not be attacking myself, and in this way I am also sure that at the very least I will have peace. I am going to try to fulfill impeccably this function that is said to have been assigned to me by God, because it seems quite likely that I will also find happiness.
III I am still interpreting every event through my old thought system, and it is normal that I experience the temptation to assign myself a function once again.
IV If I look carefully, I can apply my new function even to this; therefore, I must interpret it differently from how I was accustomed to.
V I will not allow myself to be tempted by that old habit; it would ruin my new purpose.
VI God is very simple. Nothing is simpler than God. God is the epitome of simplicity.
VII God is One, and everything that comes from Him is like Him. Everything that comes from God is one.
VIII How could God have arranged anything for me other than my happiness? Since I began to believe that I was separate from God, I have done nothing but seek happiness.
Is it so difficult to conclude that my happiness lies in God?
IX Everything I have done throughout my personal life has had no other purpose than to try to attain a little more happiness.
I will also try to be happy with what I now have before me. Let me not be tempted by the idea of seeking happiness by any means other than the one that has been proposed to me: forgiveness. If I do, I will fail once again.