Welcome to Active Meditation A Course in Miracles Lesson 100 My part is essential to God's plan for salvation.
Just as God's child completes God,
So your part in it completes God's plan.
Salvation must reverse the mad belief in separate thoughts and separate bodies,
Which lead separate lives and go their separate ways.
One function,
Shared by separate minds,
Unites them in one purpose,
For each one of them is equally essential to them all.
God's will for you is perfect happiness.
Why should you choose to go against God's will?
The part that God has saved for you to take in working out God's plan is given you.
That you might be restored to what God wills.
This part is as essential to God's plan as to your happiness.
Your joy must be complete to let God's plan be understood by those to whom he sends you.
They will see their function in your shining face and hear God calling to them in your happy laugh.
Let's practice.
Say to yourself,
Repeat in your mind,
My part is essential to God's plan for salvation.
Be open for God's response.
While you are sad,
The light that God appointed as the means to save the world is dim and lustreless.
And no one laughs because all laughter can but echo yours.
You are indeed essential to God's plan.
Just as your light increases every light that shines in heaven,
So your joy on earth calls to all minds to let their sorrows go and take their place beside you in God's plan.
God's messengers are joyous and their joy heals sorrow and despair.
God's messengers are the proof that God wills perfect happiness for all who accept God's gifts as theirs.
We will not let ourselves be sad today.
For if we do,
We fail to take the part that is essential to God's plan,
As well as to our vision.
Sadness is the sign that you would play another part,
Instead of what has been assigned to you by God.
Thus,
Do you fail to show the world how great the happiness God wills for you.
And so,
You do not recognize that happiness is yours.
Today,
We will attempt to understand joy is our function here.
If you are sad,
Your part is unfulfilled,
And all the world is thus deprived of joy along with you.
God asks you to be happy so the world can see how much God loves God's child.
And God wills no sorrow rises to abate God's joy.
And God wills no fear besets God to disturb God's peace.
You are God's messenger today.
You bring God's happiness to all you look upon.
You bring God's peace to everyone who looks on you and sees God's message in your happy face.
We will prepare ourselves for this today,
In our five-minute practice periods,
By feeling happiness arise in us according to God's will and ours.
Begin the exercises with the thought today's idea contains.
My part is essential to God's plan for salvation.
Then realize your part is to be happy.
Only this is asked of you,
Or anyone,
Who wants to take their place among God's messengers.
Think what this means.
You have indeed been wrong in your belief that sacrifice is asked.
You but receive according to God's plan and never lose or sacrifice or die.
Now,
Let us try to find that joy that proves to us and all the world God's will for us.
It is your function that you find joy here and that you find it now.
For this you came.
Let this one be the day that you succeed.
Look deep within you,
Undismayed by all the little thoughts and foolish goals you pass as you ascend to meet God in you.
God will be there and you can reach God now.
Let's practice again.
Repeat to yourself,
My part is essential to God's plan for salvation.
Look deep within you.
Don't let yourself be demoralized as you pass all the little thoughts,
All the foolish goals as you ascend to meet God in you.
God will be there and you can reach God now.
I'll be quiet.
Let's practice again.
My part is essential to God's plan for salvation.
Look deep within you.
What could you rather look upon in place of God?
Who waits that you may look on God?
What little thought has power to hold you back?
What foolish goal can keep you from success when the one who calls to you is God?
God will be there.
You are essential to God's plan.
You are God's messenger today.
And you must find what God would have you give.
Do not forget the idea for today between your hourly practice periods.
It is your Higher Self who calls to you today.
And it is your Higher Self you answer.
Every time you tell yourself you are essential to God's plan for the salvation of the world.
My part is essential to God's plan for salvation.
My part is essential to God's plan for salvation.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
