Summertime

It is past midsummer, a thought which makes me feel fully justified in leaving my seat, descending the staircase and launching myself outside into the sun. Believe it or not, I used to find that a challenge, but who can resist real beauty, just outside the back door? Real, big trees at the boundary fence, down the hill. Real sunshine on my face and wind at my cheeks. What? Summer? Already?? Well, got to catch those rays! Given our northern latitudes and the tendency for Edinburgh to be shrouded in mist for many days of the year, doing anything else would be sheer folly. If my work rate at my desk is slower than usual, I shall just have to accept that this is the way God wants it to be.

Why would God send a lovely day, just for me to ignore it? I have been mulling over a passage in A Course In Miracles,

“God established his relationship with you to make you happy, and nothing you do that does not share his purpose can be real. The purpose God ascribes to anything is its only function. Because of His reason for creating his relationship with you, the function of relationships became forever ‘to make happy.’ And nothing else….For nothing God created is apart from happiness, and nothing God created but would extend happiness as its Creator did. Whatever does not fulfil this function cannot be real.”

Which is a long and lovely way of saying, if you are unhappy, you are moving in the wrong direction. I guess this gives me permission – and a compass – so that I can be happy forever. YAY! What a feeling.