ACIM workbook lesson #66:
“My happiness and my function are one.”
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[Marsha's thoughts]
Fulfilling my function is happiness. How do I know what this function is? By listening for Truth. Truth, in all its forms, has always been very important to me. I've often felt I was too truthful, and could cite a few instances of this! Having this great love of and need for truth, it came as quite a surprise to find out that the life I'd lived for 37 years, the name I'd used, the birthdate I'd celebrated, the people I'd called my mom and dad, were a lie. When I was two months old, my mom took me in from her niece who was 17 and had given birth with no one to help her. Her boyfriend had skipped over the border into Mexico. Her family ignored her, as they wanted her to give me up and she didn't want to. After two months of being on her own, she relented and gave me to her aunt (which is what her family had wanted all along). The sweet people I had always known as parents then changed everything they had lived for 20 years and moved across the country where they weren't well known. They did this in order to save this baby from the flood of criticism and judgment which accompanied a child born out of wedlock in the decade of the 50s. Perhaps it was their living of this huge lie which caused them to instill truthfullness so solidly in me. For whatever reason, I am thankful to have it. Because of this love of Truth, I've always wanted to know it -- in every way. But in the past two decades, it's taken the form of spiritual Truth, which shows me my function, which is my happiness.
Mary Baker Eddy quote:
"Happiness is spiritual, born of Truth and Love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it."
Science & Health Page 57:18-21
