This very strong feedback, of being truly happy and living a truly meaningful life only serves to increase the fire of our holy desire to love, and to share in God’s mission of bringing about the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of love on earth.

God has given all humans a free will to use as we want. We can use our free will to go after the Security, Control, and Approval offered by the “World”; or we can use our free will to obey Jesus’ only command: Love one another as I love you.” If we go after the things of the “World”, we end up creating our own misery in the weed. If we go after obedience to Jesus’ commandment, we get to share in Jesus’ peace, joy and love.

Pleasant Emotions: The Bloom of the Flower

Our experience of this peace, joy, and love of Christ is true human happiness. Every human heart yearns for this complete happiness. But most of the time our deluded thinking deflects this yearning in the wrong direction; we think wrongly that we will be truly happy if we get the Security, Control, and Approval of the world. So we run after Security, Control, and Approval, and in the process create our own misery (this, of course, is the world of the weed).

But when our thinking and willfulness are in complete accord with Jesus’ thinking and will, we receive the joy of Christ, so that our joy is complete. Complete joy. Complete happiness. What you have always wanted. It is available to you right now. It just requires believing the Truth that the only way to true joy, the only way, is by loving God and neighbor.

Loving Action: The Fragrance of the Flower

When we are steeped in the truth of Christ, want to love as Christ loves, and experience the peace and joy and love of Christ, our words and actions are naturally loving. Loving kindness toward all people, and the entire environment, is the natural result of sharing Christ’s thinking, holy desires and joyful emotional state.

Life is now easy and enjoyable, even if we choose to be very energetic in the service of Jesus. Where others see “problems”, and “bad” situations we see wonderful opportunities to bring the healing touch of Christ. Your world has completely changed because we have completely changed interiorly. Jesus has now transformed us into a likeness of Himself. And we now have the compassion and wisdom to help Jesus to transform others, furthering Jesus” mission to bring the Kingdom of God to all.

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