Morning and Evening Review: W-101 and W-102
1. W-101 “God’s Will for me is perfect happiness.”
²God’s Will for me is that I enjoy perfect happiness, and I cannot suffer unless I believe there is another will apart from His.
2. W-102 “I share God’s Will for my happiness.”
²I share my Father’s Will for me, His Son.
³What He has given me is all I want.
⁴What He has given me is all there is.
3. On the hour:
²“God’s Will for me is perfect happiness.”
4. On the half hour:
²“I share God’s Will for my happiness.” I
I To speak of happiness, or to theorize about it, is not easy. In truth, to speak of happiness is to speak of existence itself. When Jesus states that God’s Will for me is perfect happiness, He is using a simple way to communicate a truth that, in its essence, is ineffable.
The Will of God is not something complicated; it is, ultimately, Being itself. God is Being, and His Will is that Being be. Existence is not a symbolic concept: it is what is real, the absolute, that which has no opposites, that which cannot be debated or limited.
And, at the core, there is only one real concept: God, who is Being, who is Existence. It is difficult to express what this means, for it cannot be fully grasped by a limited mind. Being is not an idea that can be encompassed within dualistic thought. And yet, it is the only essential idea, the foundation of Reality.
We can say that Being is an idea, but that falls short. Being is pure positivity, fullness, light. Existence itself is bliss, joy, jubilation. That is Heaven. And there are no words that can convey it adequately.
That is why Jesus presents this truth to us in an accessible way: “Your Father wants you to be happy.” It is a symbolic form, almost childlike, but useful. Though limited, this statement points to a deeper reality. Not because God has desires in the human sense, but because existence can be nothing other than perfect joy. It cannot will otherwise, because there is nothing else to will.
Happiness, light, power, and will are in fact aspects of one same Being. Throughout the Course, these Lessons work with those fundamental aspects: now it is happiness, but we will also be told about light, about will, about power. All are part of the same core: Being.
It is true that putting this into words will always be insufficient. But there is something one can do: to ask sincerely what it means to be. Not to seek an intellectual answer, but simply to pose the question and remain silent. If it is asked with openness, an answer will come—a spark of light, of joy, of power. That is the direction toward which revelations point. And that is, without doubt, the transpersonal experience par excellence.
To exist is to be in the fullness of happiness, and that condition cannot change. God is absolute simplicity. And from there, everything is sustained. Everything that seems to have taken form remains united to that Source. For to be is to remain in Being.
Therefore, when one inwardly asks the question What does it mean to be?, if it is asked from a sincere place, the answer will not be intellectual, but experiential. A spark of light, a feeling of joy that cannot be explained or reasoned, but only recognized. It is an experience that transcends the mind: the experience of the eternal.
That is the experience toward which the Course points. That is the direction of every true revelation.
All that God wants for you is to be happy. Don’t contradict Him. Be a good Son today and make your Father happy by being happy yourself. He does not ask too much of you, does He? He asks for very little—but realize that that little is everything.
Do not forget to be happy today.