OrEd-T-18.6-The Happy Dream

OrEd-T-18.6-The Happy Dream41. We prepare now for the undoing of what never was. If we already understood the difference between truth and illusion, the Atonement would have no meaning. The holy instant, our holy relationship, the Holy Spirit's teaching, and all the means by which salvation is accomplished would have no purpose. For they are all but aspects of the plan to change our dreams of fear to happy dreams from which we waken easily to knowledge. We do no put ourselves in charge of this, for we cannot distinguish between advance and retreat. Some of our greatest advances we have judged as failures, and some of our deepest retreats we have evaluated as success.42. We should never approach the holy instant after we have tried to remove all fear and hatred from our mind. That is the holy instant's function. We ask the Holy Spirit's help first, before we attempt to overlook our guilt. That is his function. We offer Him a little willingness to let Him remove all fear and hatred, and to be forgiven. On our little faith, joined with His understanding, He will build our part in the Atonement and make sure that we fulfill it easily. And with Him we will build a ladder planted in the solid rock of faith rising to Heaven. Nor will we use it to ascend to Heaven alone. 43. Through our holy relationship, reborn and blessed in every holy instant which we do not arrange, thousands will rise to Heaven with us. Can we plan for this? Or could we prepare ourselves for such a function? Yet it is possible, because God wills it. Nor will He change His Mind about it. The means and purpose both belong to Him. We have accepted the purpose, the means will be provided. A purpose such as this without the means is inconceivable. He will provide the means to anyone who shares His purpose.44. Happy dreams come true because they are happy. And so they must be loving. Their message is "Thy will be done," and not, "I want it otherwise." The alignment of means and purpose is an undertaking impossible for us to understand. We do not even realize we have accepted the Holy Spirit's purpose as our own, and we would only bring unholy means to its accomplishment. The little faith the relationship needed to change the purpose is all that is required to receive the means and use them. 45. It is no dream to love my brother as myself. Nor is our holy relationship a dream. All that remains of dreams within it is that it is still a special relationship. Yet it is very useful to the Holy Spirit, Who Has a special function here. Our relationship will become the happy dream through which He can spread joy to thousands on thousands who believe that love is fear, not happiness. We let Him fulfill the function that He gave to our relationship by accepting the relationship for us, and nothing will be wanting that would make of it what He would have it be.46. When we feel the holiness of our relationship is threatened by anything, we will stop instantly and offer the Holy Spirit our willingness in spite of fear, to let Him exchange this instant for the holy one which we would rather have. He will never fail in this. We must not forget that our relationship is one, and so it must be that whatever threatens the peace of one is an equal threat to the other. The power of joining and its blessing lie in the fact that it is now impossible for either of us to experience fear alone or to attempt to deal with it alone. We do not believe that this is necessary or even possible. Yet just as this is impossible, so is it equally impossible that the holy instant come to either of us without the other. And it will come to both at the request of either. 47. The one that is saner at the time when the threat is perceived should remember how deep is his indebtedness to the other, and how much gratitude is due him, and be glad that he can pay his debt by bringing happiness to both. Let him remember this, and say:48. "I desire this holy instant for myself that I may share it with my brother, whom I love. It is not possible that I can have it without him, or he without me. Yet it is wholly possible for us to share it now. And so I choose this instant as the one to offer to the Holy Spirit, that His blessing may descend on us and keep us both in peace."